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Thousands of Uber and Lyft Drivers Want the Right to Unionize. They Face An Uphill Battle Dozens of app workers who drive and deliver for companies like Uber, Lyft, GrubHub and Doordash rallied in Foley Square Tuesday afternoon, demanding a living...

Thousands of Uber and Lyft Drivers Want the Right to Unionize. They Face An Uphill Battle

Dozens of app workers who drive and deliver for companies like Uber, Lyft, GrubHub and Doordash rallied in Foley Square Tuesday afternoon, demanding a living wage, access to bathrooms on the job and the right to form a union.

The newly-formed coalition called Justice For App Workers, includes an estimated 100,000 drivers and delivery workers in the metro area. They are part of a growing sector of the “gig economy” throughout the U.S. who have been agitating for better working conditions and recognition as traditional employees with benefits.

“No one is there for us,” said single mom Tina Raveneau, who drives for Uber and Lyft and is an organizer with the Independent Drivers Guild. “They say what we do is gig work. In New York City, this is not a gig. This is full-time work.”

Source: gothamist.com
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A Massive Fail on Crime Reporting by The New York Times, NPR On September 27, 2021, the FBI released much-anticipated crime data on that most unusual year 2020. The statistics revealed a continued steady decline in major crimes overall—apart from one...

A Massive Fail on Crime Reporting by The New York Times, NPR

On September 27, 2021, the FBI released much-anticipated crime data on that most unusual year 2020. The statistics revealed a continued steady decline in major crimes overall—apart from one unfortunate outlier: homicides. Despite homicides being at historic lows, especially when compared to the 1980s and 1990s, the murder rate last year rose by 30 percent compared to the previous year. This rise has left journalists and analysts seeking explanations. Yet the notoriously volatile nature of short-term crime data renders such efforts futile. Ascribing a short-term fluctuation to any particular cause—even a global pandemic—is impossible.

Source: thenation.com
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N.Y. Cabbies Stage Hunger Strike for More Aid: ‘We’re Not Backing Down’ When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in March a plan to spend tens of millions of dollars to help New York’s taxi drivers, many praised the move. For years, officials had stood by...

N.Y. Cabbies Stage Hunger Strike for More Aid: ‘We’re Not Backing Down’

When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in March a plan to spend tens of millions of dollars to help New York’s taxi drivers, many praised the move. For years, officials had stood by as cabbies were channeled into exploitative loans that crushed them under mountains of debt. Finally, it seemed, the city was fixing an injustice.

But an influential group of drivers is now urging recipients not to accept the city’s help, pressing for a more ambitious — and expensive — bailout in a fight that has escalated into a hunger strike. Bhairavi Desai, the head of the group, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, said she and a dozen others stopped eating on Oct. 20 to push the city into offering more aid.

Source: The New York Times
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The Promises and Failures of the “Cancel Rent” Movement Eighteen months ago, COVID-19 forced millions of people to reckon with a long-standing crisis of housing insecurity in the United States. Before the pandemic, millions of people could not afford...

The Promises and Failures of the “Cancel Rent” Movement

Eighteen months ago, COVID-19 forced millions of people to reckon with a long-standing crisis of housing insecurity in the United States. Before the pandemic, millions of people could not afford their housing costs: 75% of low income families were paying more than half their income on rent, and just 1 in 4 people who needed public rent relief received it. By the fall of 2020, as many as 43% of the nation’s renters were at risk of eviction.

It was in this context that the demand to “Cancel Rent” rippled across the country. And in New York, the  housing movement was well prepared. Less than a year earlier, in June 2019, we had defeated the most powerful lobby in New York State, winning sweeping tenant protections — the strongest in the country — and expanding rent regulations for the first time in decades. In 2020, facing a deadly pandemic and an attendant economic crisis, the campaign to Cancel Rent animated hundreds of protests, rallies, and the largest coordinated rent strike in decades.

Source: nysfocus.com
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Researchers Find Signs of COVID-19 Mutations in NYC Sewage, Pointing to Possible Dog and Rat Infections A group of researchers charged by New York City with scouring human sewage for signs of the coronavirus — and its many mutating variants — made a...

Researchers Find Signs of COVID-19 Mutations in NYC Sewage, Pointing to Possible Dog and Rat Infections

A group of researchers charged by New York City with scouring human sewage for signs of the coronavirus — and its many mutating variants — made a startling discovery in April.

After months of testing and re-testing, they found four combinations of COVID mutations that, when compared to a global database of more than 2.5 million sequenced variants, had not been seen before. The four variants are at least somewhat antibody-resistant, which could reduce the effectiveness of vaccines, the researchers found.

The team of virologists and microbiologists from CUNY’s Queens and Queensborough colleges, the New School and the University of Missouri have been studying sewage from the city’s 14 wastewater treatment plants since June 2020, collecting samples in plastic bottles once a week and analyzing them to see concentrations of the virus. Since January, the researchers have gone a step further, analyzing the sewage for different COVID-19 variants.

Source: thecity.nyc
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Making the Subway Safer With Fewer Police One year after racial justice advocates worldwide took to the streets to protest police brutality, the debate about policing reform continues to top political agendas in the U.S. A new report spotlights how...

Making the Subway Safer With Fewer Police

One year after racial justice advocates worldwide took to the streets to protest police brutality, the debate about policing reform continues to top political agendas in the U.S. A new report spotlights how that conversation has extended to the nation’s public transit systems, showing how a few recent efforts to reduce police presence on buses and trains could serve as a guide to other cities.

Published Tuesday by New York City transit think tank TransitCenter, the report argues that heavy police presence aboard buses and trains has exacerbated racial disparities in law enforcement, and that there are better ways to promote public safety. The researchers advocate for a decreased focus on policing low-level offenses such as fare evasion or public sleeping, and an increase in unarmed personnel trained to respond to homelessness and mental health crises.

Source: bloomberg.com
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