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During Thursday’s No More 24 rally, however, Dr. Auerbach, stressed that the very system of legalized wage theft Mayor Mamdani denounced last year already jeopardizes patient safety right now—and that’s because home care workers who take time out for uninterrupted meals or sleep breaks risk failing to provide patients with the timely care they need to prevent things like bedsores and pneumonia. “[Patients] will die from both pneumonia and sepsis because of that legal loophole,” Dr. Auerbach said.

“There’s no healthcare without workers,” 1199 SEIU President Yvonne Armstrong said. “We do the work. We give the care. We will not be taken for granted or disrespected.” Every healthcare worker—from EMTs to housekeepers—is essential, Armstrong added, and deserves respect. “Every healthcare worker should be able to afford to live in the communities we serve,” she said. “Every healthcare worker should be able to afford quality care for their own family.

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By Bob Hennelly At a City Hall steps press conference yesterday, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced that the City Council's economists had calculated the city could anticipate an additional $2 billion in revenue from higher than previously expected tax revenue.

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Muñoz later told Division of Human Rights investigators that it was common for night-shift cleaners to come in early to begin preparing, and that no other workers were disciplined for it. She denied cursing the freight-elevator operator, saying she just told him, “I heard you call me a ‘fucking bitch,’” and added that he’d amused the Albanian-speaking workers by calling her a “whore” in Albanian.

By Joe Maniscalco A coalition of both active workers and retirees from New York City’s largest public sector union is defying union leadership and calling on City Council Speaker Julie Menin to back a bill banning round-the-clock shifts in the home care industry.