Duncan Freeman
Staff Reporter at The Chief Leader
I cover workers, the FDNY, and organized labor in NYC for @TheChiefLeader.
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5 days ago |
thechiefleader.com | Duncan Freeman
Cuomo, Mamdani secure more labor endorsements in race's closing weeksBY DUNCAN FREEMANPosted 6/6/25 With less than two weeks to go until the start of early voting in the Democratic primary for mayor, union endorsements have continued to pour in for front-runner Andrew Cuomo and his closest challenger, ascendant Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani.
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1 week ago |
thechiefleader.com | Duncan Freeman
Posted 6/6/25 David Haro spent most of Thursday at his electronically-powered standing desk working on two new computer monitors with a wireless mouse and keyboard inside Make the Road New York’s state-of-the-art $68 million community center in Queens. The immigrant advocacy organization opened the 24,000-square-foot Roosevelt Avenue center on Feb.
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1 week ago |
thechiefleader.com | Duncan Freeman
Posted 6/6/25 Delivery workers and their advocates are sounding the alarm about a policy change by the NYPD that has led to hundreds of immigrant delivery workers receiving criminal court summonses for routine traffic violations.
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1 week ago |
thechiefleader.com | Duncan Freeman
Posted 5/30/25 In what’s become a regular occurrence on the Democratic primary trail in New York City this year, two candidates for mayor, Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani and city Comptroller Brad Lander, last week tore into the race’s front-runner, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, characterizing him as insufficiently pro-labor during a small rally outside of City Hall.
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2 weeks ago |
thechiefleader.com | Duncan Freeman
Posted 5/30/25 Workers at the airport transport company SkyHop Global thought that walking out on strike just before Thanksgiving — the start of the busiest season for the company — would be enough to convince management to agree to a first union contract. By the time they went on strike Nov. 24, it had been six months since 60 workers voted to unionize with Teamsters Local 210.
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