NYS budget establishes first in the nation Excluded Workers Fund!
This victory comes after one year of statewide organizing efforts from the #ExcludedNoMore — led by impacted workers, culminating in two hunger strikes. Congrats on this historic win! #FundExcludedWorkers
HAPPENING NOW: We’ve taken over Brooklyn Bridge with Make the Road NY 🦋 #ExcludedNoMore New York Communities for Change CUFFH Mixteca Organization DRUM #CeasefireNow Laborers Local 79 to DEMAND Governor Kathy Hochul
☑️: Fully #FundExcludedWorkers
☑️: Pass #ExcludedNoMore
WWA salutes #ExcludedNoMore + the courageous hunger strikers 4 their historic victory, winning a $2.1B fund for excluded workers in the NYS budget. We applaud Sen. Stewart-Cousins + Carl E. Heastie for stalwart leadership + bill sponsors Jessica Ramos + Carmen De La Rosa #FundExcludedWorkers
The NYS Democratic Chairman publicly denounced me & Gustavo Rivera yesterday for calling out racism
…so let’s talk about racism.
#FundExcludedWorkers #BlackLivesMatter
But really how amazing are Jessica González-Rojas, @ChantelJ2020, & Phara Souffrant Forrest? Dancing for the movement and for NY to #FundExcludedWorkers
🚨 Excluded workers are gathering in lower Manhattan for a BIG demonstration! 🚨
Day laborer, domestic workers, deliveristas are ready for the major kick-off.
NY must act. It's time to:
➡️ Fully #FundExcludedWorkers
➡️ Pass #ExcludedNoMore
Pt. 4. shutting shit down for workers who have been excluded! #FundExcludedWorkers
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We are joining excluded workers today, crossing the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges to remind our officials that excluded workers deserve the same safety net protections as all New Yorkers. Pass #ExcludedNoMore , #Coverage4All and fully #FundExcludedWorkers !
Always Essential, #ExcludedNoMore !
⚒️ Pass Excluded Workers Unemployment Program A9037/S8165
💵 Immediate relief for 75,000 workers left out
NY leads the way! #FundExcludedWorkers
Starting in 1 HOUR 🍎 What's New, New York?! Join our Friday Night Plenary on how we won dramatic changes in NY this past year with Hae-Lin Choi ✊🏼 최혜린 Gustavo Rivera @VoteJGR & host 3peatPfizer of @CitizenActionNY—5:30pm ET. #org20 #FundExcludedWorkers sched.co/iwXp
Thank you to all our supporters! 🧡 We are changing lives together. Maria is a Trinidadian immigrant who lost her work as a nanny during COVID. We helped her get relief from the NY Excluded Workers Fund. #FundExcludedWorkers
MUST WATCH: Excluded workers hold a moment of silence on the Manhattan Bridge.
Today we remember essential workers we have lost during the pandemic.
And we fight to fully #FundExcludedWorkers with $3B and pass #ExcludedNoMore !
Make the Road NY 🦋
#ExcludedNoMore Street Vendor Project
A statement from our Director in response to the passage of #FundExcludedWorkers :
'While we are elated for undocumented New Yorkers across the state...it is wrong that this critical program does not include formerly incarcerated people...'
No where I’d rather be than taking over the Brooklyn Bridge with the @FEWcoalition!
Albany - we must build on last year’s victory and #fundexcludedworkers !!!
This solid article is a terrific PSA correcting misinformation and fearmongering about #FundExcludedWorkers . Thanks City & State NY! bit.ly/3uXQOiF Indivisible Harlem Empire State Indivisible
THREAD: More then 60 West Liberty excluded and essential immigrant workers are mobilizing outside of their city council meeting tonight to demand the city #FundExcludedWorkers and offer widespread utility relief from energy price inflation
Happening now! Community members, advocates & legislators are at the Capitol to launch the #Safetynet4All campaign. It’s time to secure unemployment benefits for excluded immigrant workers! #FundExcludedWorkers California Immigrant Policy Center
Livestream linked ⬇️
Johnson County establishes the first-in-Iowa Direct Assistance Program to #FundExcludedWorkers with $1,400 stabilization checks.
This $3.2 million victory comes after over a year of organizing by Escucha Mi Voz Iowa — led by impacted workers. Congratulations!
We’re here in Albany to ask legislators to #RaiseTheWage and #FundExcludedWorkers .
Currently, the min wage of 15$ in NY barely covers a carton of eggs. Our proposal increases the min wage to $21.25 by 2026.
We stand with workers ✊🏾