Shihao Feng

Atziri Rosario makes $18 per hour from her full-time shift leader job at Duane Reade, $3 more than the state’s minimum wage.

Rosario, who lives with her parents in Washington Heights, doesn’t pay rent, but she has noted that her salary buys less than it did even just a few months or even weeks ago. “For example, I would say toilet paper (has) gone up, like $5 or $6,” she said recently. “It sounds like a little bit, (but) it all adds up.”

Like many, Rosario, who is also a full-time college stud

Shefali Kashiv joined New York’s Microsoft office after graduating from John Hopkins University last August. She was welcomed by a series of online onboarding events and worked for the company remotely until this summer.

Kashiv didn’t get to meet all of her teammates until six or seven months after she started with the company.

“Given the fact that we met after being remote for so many months, I definitely felt that we valued it more when we were meeting in person,” she said.

Kashiv’s has bec

Workers in the reproductive rights field doubled down on their organizing efforts when it became clear in early May the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade and severely cut down on access to legal abortions in certain parts of the country.

With the court’s ruling Friday, those endeavors gained increased focus, importance and significance, for the workers certainly, but also for those they care for.

In an interview before the court’s ruling was released, Crystal Grabowski, an abortion work

By a nearly two to one margin, employees at an Apple store in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize, a first at an Apple retail location in the U.S.

The in-person vote took place across four days and in a room at the Towson Town Center shopping mall separate from the store.

“It's the result we wanted,” said David DiMaria, a special representative from International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, who worked as an organizer to assist the workers at the store during the election.

In 2021, New York City suffered the highest incidence of gun violence in the past 10 years, as well
as the highest death toll, according to the NYPD Shooting Dataset.

Every afternoon at 3 pm, a travel bus pulls up in front of 9 Chatham Square, where a Cantonese
dim sum restaurant named “Hop Shing” had been since the 1970s. The bus picks up passengers
bound for Atlantic City, where they will gamble for a day or two. For years, before they embarked,
many of them would pick up some cheap dim sums from Hop Shing, but no more.