October Indy: A Broken Promise to Retired City Workers
New York City municipal workers typically work for less pay than their private-sector counterparts in return for better benefits including retiree health coverage. That’s been the bargain for decades. In our October cover story, we look at Mayor Eric Adams’ attempt to break that promise and shovel 250,000 retired teachers, nurses, EMTs, sanitation workers, CUNY professors and others into a privately-run version of Medicare and the growing resistance to such a move.
Broken Promise: Mayor’s Plan to Shift 250,000 Retired City Workers to Privatized Health Insurance Heads to City Council
By Steven Wishnia
What’s Wrong with Medicare Advantage?
By Dr. Stephen Kimble
Why Bernie’s Medicare Expansion Plan Got Snuffed Out
By John Tarleton
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The surge of thousands of migrants being bussed from the border states to New York City continues. Amid the City’s floundering response — erecting a tent city in a flood-prone parking lot in a far corner of the Bronx as winter approaches was never going to cut it — we hear from grassroots organizers who are marshaling epic amounts of mutual aid to incoming migrants while trying to push the City’s policies in a more humane direction.
Welcoming the Stranger: An Interview with New York Immmigration Coalition’s Murad Awawdeh
By Renée Feltz
Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize in Response to Refugee Crisis
By Amba Gueguerian
If you value the work we do but have held back on becoming a sustaining supporter, please see the op-ed from our Associate Editor Amba Guerguerian.
When You Support The Indypendent, You Strengthen the Public Commons
By Amba Guerguerian
More news coverage
The People’s Beach Is a Queer Landmark That Deserves to Live on
By Nicky Yeager
Ukrainians Helping Russians? A LGBTQ+ Group Leads the Way
By Eleanor Bader
Brooklyn Public Library vs. The Book Banners
By Eleanor Bader
Landlords’ Nightmare: Radical Tenant Associations Are Forming Rapidly in Brooklyn
By Amba Guerguerian
Anthony Sims Is Coming Home
By Theodore Hamm
Swinging the Midterm Vote
By Steven Wishnia
Amazon Labor Union Update: Albany Union Vote & Fire in Staten Island Warehouse
By Amba Guerguerian
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Labor unions don’t just improve pay and working conditions. They help build a culture of solidarity. In that spirit, the 11th annual Workers Unite Film Festival is entering its second and final week. Find out more about the remaining films they will be screening in person and online. They will also be holding an activist filmmaker boot camp this Saturday in Manhattan. Be the media!
More Cultural Coverage
Little Amal Comes to NYC
By Jessica Max Stein
Oh, the Stories We Tell
By Eleanor Bader
Reverend Billy’s Revelations
By Billy Talen
Indy News Hour Update
On this week’s Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 we spoke with Sarah Chaudhry, an 18-year-old Amazon warehouse worker and union organizer at the company’s warehouse outside Albany where voting on whether to unionize is taking place this week. We also spoke with Nicolás and Holden of Brooklyn Eviction Defenders about how the group has organized two dozen tenant associations since March and how tenants are wielding their collective power against landlords. We will be off next week and will return to the air on Tuesday, Oct. 25 from 5-6 p.m.