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Mechafunkzilla posted:So what's the deal with getting a mail-in ballot in New York? Do we still have to just lie and apply for an absentee ballot if we don't want to go to the polls or is there any movement by the powers that be to push something through to make it easier? state senate passed a bill to let the general election work like the primary where anybody and everybody can vote by mail, but its been sitting on cuomo's desk since August 10th without being signed https://www.nysenate.gov//legislation/bills/2019/S8015 so whenever this is finalized you should be able to request a mail-in ballot online pretty painlessly, like the primaries.
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Tulip posted:http://secondavenuesagas.com/2020/08/26/doomsday-budget-mta-threatens-40-service-cuts-to-buses-subways-if-federal-aid-fails-to-arrive/ And by doling out 9000+ permanent job losses, I'm sure the actual impact on delays and maintenance issues will be way worse than any public-facing forecast would probably admit. This is going to be loving devastating.
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Tulip posted:http://secondavenuesagas.com/2020/08/26/doomsday-budget-mta-threatens-40-service-cuts-to-buses-subways-if-federal-aid-fails-to-arrive/ MTA is pushing this to every ny publication to ring the alarms again after they finalized their budget yesterday https://new.mta.info/document/24121 extremely grim poo poo. its as bad as they were warning it would be in august and theyre begging the state/fed for money while union leadership promises slowdowns and strikes if they go through with the 10,000 layoffs. quote:“There will be a fightback from the unions, and it will be a collective fightback both on the railroads and within the city, I just want to make that clear,” said John Samuelsen, president of Transit Workers Union Local 100. “If there’s any expectation from anybody in this room, whether they be board members or whether it be the bosses at the MTA, we’re not going to open up our contracts and bankroll this deficit reduction. It’s not going to happen.”
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Of all the strikes that have been discussed as a result of proposed austerity, this is the one that seems most possible and most likely to achieve its goals. Do you have any links to union leaderships statements regarding slowdowns and striking? I'm a part of the progressive caucus of DC37 and I'd be interested in presenting this to comrades to see how we might support them. im not involved enough to provide more than twitter quotes and general sentiment https://twitter.com/TWULocal100/status/1329452979213250560?s=20 https://twitter.com/danrivoli/status/1329101103628251144?s=20 https://twitter.com/danrivoli/status/1329105952998612993?s=20 https://twitter.com/stucknation/status/1329075876357500929?s=20 hopefully someone else here can provide better info for you, im just someone who uses busses and wants to support the workers. 2021 is going to be a huge year for labor struggles here on multiple fronts.
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cross posting from the union thread -- nyc food market in the Bronx that handles about 60% of the produce supply for the city is on strike bc management refused to raise wages by even a dollar (counter-offered 30 something cents lol). if you're in the area check in with the teamsters union or DSA or whatever local organizers that are joining the effort, there's lot of ways to offer support and solidarity! here's the JC16 Twitter acct if you want to get caught up on their activity https://twitter.com/TeamstersJC16/status/1352679224595910656
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it got deleted already but it was a tweet from an MTA acct explaining that benches have been removed from stations to prevent homeless people from sleeping on them. for anyone curious
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in slightly better homeless advocacy news, the homeless population that was allowed to stay at that hotel in the uws has been organizing, first to fight off NIMBY eviction threats over the summer, and this week they hosted a mayoral forum. https://gothamist.com/news/mayoral-forum-homeless-new-yorkers-demand-answers-longstanding-crisis pretty great, not sure where a group like this will go but this kind of collective advocacy can only lead to better things. part of me wonders if the city is removing benches now in retaliation for this lol. especially since all the lefty candidates are police abolitionists, NYPD and MTA cops were probably pissed. more likely it's just bc there was an uptick in people sheltering in subways during the snowstorm this week and losers snitched and complained.
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KomradeX posted:So I saw something from Gothamist the other day about the Guardian Angels stepping up their being a bunch of pricks on the Subway, over the past year and I just really loving hate those guys and thunk it's weird how they don't get talked about. the founder of the guardian angels is running for mayor this year lol
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:i really know didly squat about the people running for mayor, except that the guy in the times today seems like crap Carlos Menchaca and Dianne Morales seem cool. im looking forward to an election for the first time in my life bc of RCV
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Leon Sumbitches posted:I've seen Menchaca perform in several City Council meetings (bored in quarantine, why not tune in?). lol same here
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they have a public chat on the zoom calls I've thought it would be cool to start flamewars to see if even a single other human being is out there watching the city council discuss community land trust designations
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GalacticAcid posted:cuomo might actually go down god willing
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👀 https://twitter.com/ZackFinkNews/status/1368653562570539009?s=20
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it's going to be an awful year and a half with Gov Hochul lol
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there's no way he resigns, guess we're all just waiting at this point to see if the state assembly Dems have the spine to submit articles of impeachment. it would be dope if they did.
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impeach his rear end already.
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I fuckin hate Andrew Yang
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it would be years and years of poo poo like this https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1359992211186843649?s=20 and an endlessly ballooning NYPD budget
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yeah it just got deployed for the first time about a month or so ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24jufNhuUSI
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"This basic income program will start with providing those who are living in extreme poverty with an average of $2,000 per year." lol I didn't realize how comically small this is, I decided to actually read his platform today
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the republicans in the state assembly tried to impeach him for the nursing home deaths in feb (early March? I forget exactly) like two weeks before the abuse allegations started going public.
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oops stringer's a sexpest! https://gothamist.com/news/former-campaign-intern-accuses-scott-stringer-sexual-harassment
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hope morales can surge from this, shes the only one with a respectable platform and now people can't lean on stringer's "experience" to pretend he's a remotely left-leaning candidate. or he'll stay in the race, gently caress it, nobody has any public accountability to sexual assault so he probably won't drop out.
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yeah she's my #1, still trying to figure out if it's even worth putting Wiley 2nd or just leaving the one choice.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:postin g in the politics thread to say we won our class action suit against my shitdick billionaire former landlord today, the judge got SO TIRED of their bullshit after 3.5 years of hemming and hawing good poo poo
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morales and wiley were cool but people are definitely going to eat up adams' law and order bullshit in the long run.
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one of the weirdest parts to me was how many candidates were in favor of suspending health inspections for restaurants .
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apparently the morales campaign just laid off a bunch of union organizers and in response organizers are calling for work stoppages from volunteers. https://twitter.com/mayoralesunion/status/1398037672019496966?s=20 idk seems like a bad move to take 3 weeks before election day when youre trying to be the lefty candidate!!
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haveblue posted:We're going to get Yang because literally everyone else imploded aren't we we're going to get sliwa because everyone else imploded lol.
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in the process of this i also learned that morales is a landlord and charter school stooge. good poo poo. shoulda never trusted a dem.
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they might be cash strapped but theyre still spending money on consultants...here's a cool comparison chart i saw yesterday. wiley doesn't have that much more total funds than morales but is spending a lot of it on wages for staff, its possible to do! from here: https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/5/27/22457597/dianne-morales-staff-implosion-mayoral-campaign
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Adun posted:lol isn’t the campaign over in a month anyways? Everyone in this looks loving stupid. I don’t understand a unionizing push for a job that won’t exist in a month every worker should be in a union
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Gunshow Poophole posted:to the pundits asking what's the big deal about a job that will be over in a month being unionized: eat poo poo gently caress you this.
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he rents out the upper floors of that building too which is illegal iirc. but hell, im not Borough President what do I know.
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CaptainPsyko posted:It’s legal as the owner to live in that weird basement and rent out the upper levels that are proper apartments. It would be illegal to rent out that weird basement on its own to anybody else. Oh thats what it is. Thanks
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