Hunts Point Strike Is the Bold Labor Action the Country Needs by Natasha Lennard, Intercept, January 23 2021 https://theintercept.com/2021/01/23/covid-nyc-hunts-point-strike/ . . . "Most of the striking workers live locally. Hunts Point has one of the highest concentrations of Latinx residents in all of New York City, and almost half of the area’s population lives below the federal poverty line. Organized labor, Fernández said, “is ripe for a resurgence” with major strikes as an indispensable locus of “public agitation.”
"While thrown into ever sharper relief by the pandemic, the wealth of corporations and their owners compared to the economic hardship faced by those whose labor they exploit has always been intolerable. Cesar Chavez’s legacy is complicated by his deeply flawed opposition to undocumented immigrants entering the U.S., but his statement that “we draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live” speaks to this pandemic moment and the workers organizing within it. "It should not take the high risks and pay losses of a strike to win a decent wage. But it’s plain as day that workers’ rights, protections, and livelihoods won’t be delivered simply because a liberal centrist president puts a statue of a famous union leader in his office. As ever, the workers and liberation fighters on the front lines will lead the way." On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:07 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://gothamist.com/food/hunts-point-produce-workers-enter-day-three-strike-after-nypd-breaks-picket-line > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5813): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5813 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80094389/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
