CGA

Organizing for Affordable Housing, Domestic Worker Rights, and Cooperative Economics, in NYC

[NYC Consumer and Worker Protection @helloDCWP]

Thank you @CarrollGardensA for inviting Commissioner Levine to share our ongoing efforts to support NYC’s domestic workers!

Whether you work from home or in someone else’s, you have rights in NYC. Learn yours at https://t.co/RLYOUMuocP

[NYC Consumer and Worker Protection @helloDCWP]

🙏 Thank you @CGA_NPC for ongoing outreach collaboration to support and inform paid care workers of their rights and free City resources available.

🗽 DCWP fights for all workers in NYC regardless of their immigration status.

#ProtectWorkers

https://t.co/HvHPpg2Qbj

[Gustavo Ajche @AjcheGustavo]

As a Deliverista, when I read that op-ed, I felt I had no choice but to speak up — especially when corporations try to silence us for simply demanding basic rights.

Let me be clear: that op-ed is full of lies. It was written to defend @Instacart and attack workers like me.

Let’s be honest: NYC’s grocery app delivery workers have no labor protections. Like me, thousands of workers risk our lives every day — and still have to fight just to earn minimum pay. That’s why we count on the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (@helloDCWP).

At a time when the federal government has abandoned us and chosen to protect corporations over workers, @helloDCWP is often the only labor agency we can rely on to defend our rights in New York City.

The claim that minimum pay will raise grocery prices? That’s just fear-mongering. These companies are making billions. They can afford to pay workers fairly without pushing costs onto families. Don’t insult New Yorkers by pretending fairness is too expensive.

And the lie that jobs will disappear if workers earn a living wage? I’ve seen the truth: these apps use deactivations to get rid of workers they don’t want to pay. They choose profit over people. That’s why we need deactivation protections and just cause.

Let’s be clear: @Instacart is trying to confuse the public, divide workers, and protect a business model built on underpaying us and forcing us to live off tips.

Thank you to NYC Council Members @SandyforCouncil and @CMJenGutierrez for your courage and leadership. We see you — and we’re not backing down.

— Gustavo Ajche, Deliverista and leader of @LosDeliveristas and @workersjusticep

[NYC Coalition for Domestic Work @nyccoalition4dw]

We URGE for @LaColmenaNYC to be included in the FY25 "New York City Domestic Worker and Employer Empowerment Initiative" to increase our efforts in supporting Staten Island @domesticworkers.

@adhikaar @DamayanMigrants @HiHemployers @CGA_NPC ✊

[The People’s Plan @PeoplesPlanNYC]

READ: 50+ orgs are calling on City Council to step up the fight against @NYCMayor & use additional powers to stop his budget cuts. If the Mayor refuses to reverse his cuts, @NYCCouncil MUST deliver for working families & pass a #PeoplesBudget #CareNotCuts: https://t.co/Xc4mKqACRW

[La Colmena 🐝 aka The Beehive @LaColmenaNYC]

📢Today the NYC Domestic Worker Coalition @NYCC4DW rallied outside of City Hall for Domestic Workers!

Our movement of Domestic Workers keeps growing & we are ready to go in full force this FY25 ✊🏽.

Stay tune!

[NYCProgressives.bsky.social @NYCProgressives]

Community Development Corporations keep our City's housing affordable & in community hands.

Last week, 25+ CDCs across the 5 boroughs sent a letter to @NYCMayor and @NYCHousing in support of the Homes Now campaign for $2.5B to NYCs housing budget.

https://t.co/muDpqy5oyV

[La Colmena 🐝 aka The Beehive @LaColmenaNYC]

Today the Domestic Worker Coalition @nyccoalition4dw testified @ the Consumer & Worker Protection hearing, to speak on the importance of our work w/ domestic workers & outreach efforts alongside DCWP @helloDCWP @adhikaar @cga_npc @HiHemployers @DamayanMigrants @domesticworkers ✊🏽

[NYCProgressives.bsky.social @NYCProgressives]

We need homes that will last for generations and prioritize people over profit.

Join us to launch a budget campaign for permanently affordable housing in NYC.

https://t.co/rcc7Ne6B48

[Office of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine @NYCComptroller]

We need to pass Good Cause Eviction at the state level, THIS legislative session.

Passing #GoodCause isn’t just sound economic policy, it’s good social policy.

The displacement of tenants disrupts the social fabric of New York's communities and buildings, like 63 Tiffany Place.

[Jo Anne Simon 文雅麗 🟧 @JoAnneSimonBK52]

Tenants need protections from unjust evictions & massive rent increases. Our neighbors @Save63Tiffany shouldn’t be displaced from the community they created.

Let’s pass @JuliaCarmel__ #GoodCause Eviction bill. @CSSNYorg's new report details why we need this housing protection.

[La Colmena 🐝 aka The Beehive @LaColmenaNYC]

🧵2/2 The Domestic Workers Initiative @cga_npc partner spoke about the Initiative’s work to support @domesticworkers @ the Women/Gender Equity & Health Comm. Hearing.

➡️Follow @nyccoalition4dw to learn about:

@adhikaar
@cga_npc
@HiHemployers @domesticworkers @LaColmenaNYC

[Antonio Reynoso @BKBPReynoso]

We can’t let affordable housing like 63 Tiffany Place continue to disappear from our city.

It’s time for E&M Associates to sit down with the City and State in the name of what is right, the greater good, and the well-being of all who call 63 Tiffany home.

📸@NYCComptroller

[La Colmena 🐝 aka The Beehive @LaColmenaNYC]

🧵1/2 At the Women/Gender Equity & Health Comm. Hearing, on behalf of the Domestic Workers Initiative we spoke about our work on empowering immigrant women by teaching them of their rights, safety & health at work along w/ @adhikaar @cga_npc @HiHemployers @domesticworkers ✊🏽

[CGA @CGA_NPC]

We stand with Council Members @tiffany_caban @ShahanaFromBK @OsseChi and thank them for their work as chairs of their committees & for their past votes in opposition to @nycmayor austerity & unjust budget priorities that hurt working class & poor New Yorkers. #CareNotCuts

[Public Bank NYC @PublicBankNYC]

It's time we stopped putting our public dollars in banks that harm our communities

The clock is ticking⏰

@NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams: pass The People's Bank Act now!
https://t.co/KmfV9LBT47

[Adhikaar @adhikaar]

🚨TODAY: 59 local, state, & national orgs endorsed a Congressional letter led by Representatives @RepGraceMeng & @NydiaVelazquez, & co-signed by 24 of their colleagues - calling on the Biden administration @POTUS, @SecMayorkas, & @SecBlinken to redesignate TPS for Nepal🇳🇵[1/10]

[Office of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine @NYCComptroller]

"This is where we've lived for decades...this is our home, we want to stay here." - Joy Foster, 63 Tiffany Pl tenant

No tenant should face evictions and rent hikes just because landlords wants more profits.

Irving Langer must step up so that housing agencies can #Save63Tiffany!

[Office of New York City Comptroller Mark Levine @NYCComptroller]

Tenants are fighting to #Save63Tiffany!

Irving Langer is a pattern speculator and has been on @NYCPA’s Worst Landlord Watchlist. In December, the regulatory agreement that keeps the building affordable will expire.

The landlord, City, and State must come together to act now.

[Jo Anne Simon 文雅麗 🟧 @JoAnneSimonBK52]

We must #Save63Tiffany and protect these long-term tenants from eviction. Landlord Irving Langer: now's your chance to DO THE RIGHT THING! Meet with DHCR & HPD immediately for a solution to keep our neighbors in their homes.