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Celebrating new NYS law to aid #FundExcludedWorkers! Progressive, pro-working people alliance strengthening in NY. Second major victory after Intro 1116 B passed NYC Council . maketheroadny.org/wp-content/upl… 
Many (if not most) food system workers, from the farm, restaurant kitchen, to the street vendor, are undocumented. So this is crucial because federal aid often cannot be allocated to them.
@FEWCoalition is outside Gov. Cuomo's office in Midtown, celebrating Easter--a holiday of renewal--to ask "What have you sacrificed? While we were expected to sacrifice *everything*, working during the pandemic."
#FundExcludedWorkers
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20 days without food; a year without relief. @AndreaSCousins @CarlHeastie we continue to look to you to deliver a fully accessible worker bailout fund.
"I want everyone to close their eyes and imagine what it will feel like when this Excluded Worker Fund is real, when we have won, when families no longer have to kill themselves with work day by day... This is a holiday about hope." - @AngeMariaSolis
THREAD on one of the final ways that @nygovcuomo and some legislators have been trying to gut real relief to NYers in the state budget: insisting on only including people with ITINs. (A bit wonky, but *very* important, so bear with me). #FundExcludedWorkers /1
As we speak, NY is on the cusp of creating a first-in-the-nation Excluded Worker Fund that would bring urgently needed relief to New Yorkers who have been on the frontlines of the pandemic but excluded from every form of federal and state relief. #FundExcludedWorkers /2
.@CarlHeastie and @AndreaSCousins deserve a lot of credit for putting $2.1B in their one-house budgets and holding the line against (frankly racist) attacks against this funding, while @NYGovCuomo allocated $0 and has worked to undermine. #FundExcludedWorkers /3
Immigrant workers are facing increased exploitation during the pandemic. In NYC, they're fighting back. Here's what we've seen happen in 2021 when workers come together. 🧵THREAD
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Food vendors and delivery workers are on hunger strike to demand that New York #FundExcludedWorkers who have been left out of public COVID-19 relief packages.
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These women have been fasting for nearly two weeks to put pressure on New York to pass a $3.5B fund that would provide emergency aid to undocumented workers.
They'll find out if their voices have been heard when the state budget is settled on April 1.
documentedny.com/2021/03/31/mee…
They'll find out if their voices have been heard when the state budget is settled on April 1.
documentedny.com/2021/03/31/mee…
