by Billy Wharton A coalition of workers in the service industry has begun picketing the Saigon Grill, an Upper West Side Vietnamese restaurant notorious for its bad labor practices. The group called Justice Will be Served! is composed of the 318 Restaurant Workers Union, Chinese Staff & Workers’ Association, and the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops. They cite the restaurant’s management... 

by Bill Reed  Time to keep working. Perhaps you have heard about the Flaum Appetizing company cheating their employees out of large amounts of overtime pay and firing the workers for joining the IWW. Perhaps you were leafleting or picketing at supermarkets last summer or last spring to support the workers and get customers to boycott Sonny and Joe’s hummus . Perhaps you were in court or read about... 

by Billy Wharton  Maintenance workers at the apartment complex Flatbush Gardens spent a second day on the picket line after being locked out of their jobs. The workers, who are represented by the union 32BJ, rejected an offer by their employer Renaissance Equity Holdings that would have slashed their wages by more than 30%. Eyewitnesses reported garbage piling up outside the apartment complex as... 

This week is DWU’s big Week of Action leading up to their lobbying day on April 28th when 200 domestic workers and allies will head to Albany to try to get this bill passed. The NYC Local of the Socialist Party will participate in this Saturday’s march! * April 25th March and Rally “Where Wall St Lives and Domestic Workers Labor” 11am at 86th and 5th ave We will be making a...