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Congratulations to Robert Bonanza Business Manager of the Mason Tenders’ District Council on being recognized as one of New York’s Labor Power 100 The 17,000 members of the Mason Tenders’ District Council thank you for your leadership and support. Thanks to you we have dignity, respect and fairness on the job.

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ORGANIZED LABOR HAS BEEN grappling with one challenge after another lately. While Donald Trump inspired many working class voters on the campaign trail, critics say he has catered instead to the wealthy. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Janus v. AFSCME case that government workers who aren’t union members don’t have to help cover collective bargaining costs, eroding an important revenue source. Meanwhile, the nation’s unionization rate continues its decadeslong decline. And now, the coronavirus pandemic has put workers at risk both of falling ill and, thanks to the ensuing recession, losing their jobs.

In New York, which has the highest unionization rate of any state except Hawaii, organized labor has remained strong – and it has made a difference in the pandemic response. Construction unions worked with Gov. Andrew Cuomo to keep building while staying safe. The transit union teamed up with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to demand federal aid. And New York City’s teachers union just forced Mayor Bill de Blasio to postpone the start of school to ensure adequate protections when in-person classes resume.

In our annual Labor Day issue, we report on ongoing fights for worker rights and efforts to protect essential workers – and we unveil our latest Labor Power 100, which highlights the leaders battling on the front lines.

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PPE … 14 Is there enough for a second wave?

GIG WORKERS … 16

CELESTE SLOMAN; MICHAEL APPLETON/MAYORAL PHOTOGRAPHY OFFICE

The fight for their rights was abandoned amid COVID-19

UNION POLITICS … 22

Will organized labor move left?

FARMWORKERS … 26 The effort to start overtime at 40 hours

LABOR 100 … 29

The most influential people fighting for working New Yorkers

WINNERS & LOSERS … 66 Unions are staying vigilant to protect health care workers in the event of a possible second wave.

Who was up and who was down last week

Julie Tighe, NYLCV

Kevin Parker, NYS Senator

Sue Tierney, Analysis Group

Michael B. Gerrard, Professor

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“Forget bodyguards, (Trump) better have an army if he wants to walk down the streets in New York City. ” – Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after President Donald Trump threatened to cut federal funding to the city over rising crime rates, via the Daily News

POLICE KILLING IN ROCHESTER SPARKS OUTRAGE Another instance of a civilian death in police custody emerged in Rochester after the family of the victim released body camera footage of the deadly encounter. Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died on March 30 of asphyxiation, two

months before the police killing of George Floyd, whose death shares similarities with this case and sparked nationwide protests. Prude’s death came seven days after a police encounter that left him brain-dead and on life support. On March 23, Prude had been experiencing a mental health crisis, which prompted his brother to call 911 for

help. The police officers who responded placed a bag over Prude’s head in an apparent attempt to prevent him from spitting on them.

As Prude struggled, an officer pushed his head against the pavement while another kneeled on his back. After several minutes, Prude stopped moving and paramedics were called to perform CPR before he was taken

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away in an ambulance.

Both the Rochester Police Department and the state attorney general’s office are investigating the death. The seven officers involved in Prude’s death remain on the force, but have been suspended after the case gained widespread attention.

TRUMP THREATENS THE BIG APPLE

President Donald Trump has once again taken aim at New York City, his birthplace and longtime home, where Democratic leaders have been a thorn in his side since becoming president.

Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding for New York and other Democratic-controlled cities including Portland and Seattle that he said have devolved into “anarchy” during recent protests against police brutality. In a memo, Trump directed federal agencies to detail all funding they give to the cities, and told U.S. Attorney General William Barr to create a list of “anarchistic jurisdictions,” with reducing police funding as one of the qualifying factors. The memo described at length New York City’s recent uptick in violent crime and the recent $1 billion cut to the New York City Police Department’s budget.

The very same night the news broke, Gov. Andrew Cuomo held a press call

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firing back at the president with some inflammatory language. He said that Trump “better have an army if he thinks he’s going to walk down the streets in New York,” although he later walked back the vaguely threatening comment slightly by saying that he meant simply that Trump is “persona non grata” in the city. Cuomo said that he doubts the “maniacal” move will amount to anything, calling it an “illegal stunt.”

De Blasio took a similar stance, saying at a press conference that if Trump persists, the city would take him to court and win like it did when Trump attempted to withhold funding from socalled sanctuary cities.

NYC DELAYS START OF SCHOOL After weeks of uncertainty around reopening schools and threats of a strike from the New York City teachers union, de Blasio made a

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last-minute announcement that the Department of Education will delay the first day of school. Originally set to reopen on Sept. 10, the new first day of school is Sept. 16 for remote learning, with students who opted for blended learning not returning to the classroom until Sept.

21. The announcement took parents and teachers by surprise, although United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, who joined de Blasio in making the announcement, praised the decision for giving teachers more time to prepare for the unprecedented school year.

However, the move was met with mixed reactions from teachers and other educators, since the extra 11 days may not be enough time to address all the outstanding issues they have regarding preparation and safety.

NY was struggling with Medicaid.

COVID-19 made it worse.

Rising Medicaid spending had proven to be a strain on New York’s budget before the pandemic, fueling a significant part of the state’s $6 billion budget gap. Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved cuts to the program in April, though their impact was hampered by restrictions on changes to Medicaid stipulated under federal COVID-19 relief legislation.

But as the pandemic is driving New Yorkers who have lost their jobs and health insurance to enroll in the program, costs may rise even further.

New York’s spending on Medicaid is expected to increase by 6% this year, according to an analysis from the Empire Center for Public Policy published in late August, reaching an $80.3 billion total for fiscal year 2021.

Increased enrollment in Medicaid from people who have lost their jobs – and their health insurance – already appears to be a factor. Enrollment rose by about 4% from February to May. Approximately 470,000 more New Yorkers were on Medicaid Managed Care plans in August compared with February this year.

The federal government has pitched in more aid than usual to New York’s Medicaid program, with coronavirus relief legislation offsetting a significant burden on the state. “Congress did provide about $2.2 billion to the State through an

enhanced reimbursement rate that the State is accepting as we need every cent we can get as the Federal government has still not provided the state with any funding to offset our revenue losses, which amount to $62 billion over four years,” Freeman Klopott, a spokesperson for the state’s Budget Division, wrote in an email.

If New York does seek further Medicaid cuts, one option that the state has more control over is reducing fees paid to hospitals, doctors and nursing homes, though that option would be politically contentious. Having been on the front lines during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, many health care providers are now seeing declining revenues as medical visits drop off. And across-the-board cuts would likely hit safety net hospitals and institutions that serve more Medicaid patients in vulnerable communities harder.

“Their long-term existence is questionable at this point,” state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who chairs the Senate’s health committee, said about the safety net hospitals and other institutions. “It drives me up a friggin’ wall because that’s not what we should be talking about right now. We should talk about reinforcing those safety nets.”

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Members of the state Legislature are holding a virtual hearing on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, starting at 10 a.m.

The New York City Council Transportation Committee is holding a remote oversight hearing at 10 a.m. on the city’s Open Streets program and the Department of Transportation’s response to COVID-19.

The gradual return of indoor activities in New York City continues as the American Museum of Natural History and Bronx Museum of the Arts reopen for the first time since the pandemic began.

Citing health concerns, the September 11 memorial initially announced it wouldn’t project its annual Tribute in Light beams, but reversed course when the state offered assistance after public outcry.

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Congratulations to our president Kieran Ahern on being a part of this year’s Labor Power 100 list, and congratulations to BMST District Council #9, Joseph Azzopardi From bridges and towers to subway lines and iconic buildings, for decades our association members have contributed to the beauty and well-being of the landmarks that make up our skyline and the infrastructure that keeps New York moving forward.

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A totally not-self-interested real estate broker in Larchmont claimed she’s inundated with buyers from the city. “You’d better put in an offer above asking on the first house you see up here, because the demand is overwhelming. Check is fine but cash is better.”

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Young artists in Ridgewood were overheard musing that they might be able to afford Williamsburg again.

THE POST KNOWS IT, that dude with the poofy hair on LinkedIn knows it, that other dude who got robbed in New Jersey but somehow made it de Blasio’s fault knows it. And we here at City & State know it too.

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An Upper West Side landlord recently decried the sluggish real estate market after only receiving 27 applications for a $5,200-per-month walkup railroad apartment.

A 23-year-old tech executive feels trapped in his own home after an unidentified man asked him for a dollar. “I would’ve thought a neighborhood called ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ was a nice, safe, area,” complained Chad Worthington III.

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A man in a red tracksuit and matching beret keeps taking up all the sidewalk space to “patrol.” He says the homeless men housed in nearby hotels are making the area unsafe for children, so he’s training teenagers to be vigilantes.

Cars were backed up for blocks trying to get into the Holland Tunnel.

A stay-at-home mom from the West Village took to Instagram to mourn the vacant Financial District. The picture was actually of downtown Boston, and when reached for comment, she admitted she’s never been south of Canal Street.

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Fifty percent reduced capacity with tables six feet apart is the same in Staten Island as it is in Schenectady.

A Q&A with NYC Hospitality Alliance Executive Director

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Indoor dining is still not allowed in New York City, despite it being allowed in other parts of the state. What are restaurant owners feeling right now, what are you hearing from your members?

It’s devastating, it’s absolutely devastating.

Small business owners are exhausting their personal savings with the hopes of being able to keep the restaurant open and hire their employees back. But they’re getting absolutely no guidance on when they will potentially be able to open up indoors. It’s been more than five months since they’ve been shut down by government. And

now that same government is not providing them rent relief, nor are they providing them a plan to reopen as we enter the cooler months, and outdoor dining won’t be a reality for those restaurants that are currently participating.

Part of the impetus for delaying indoor dining in New York City was watching states like Texas and Florida experience a surge in COVID-19 cases after allowing indoor dining earlier this summer.

How do you contend with the unique risks that public health ex-

perts say indoor dining poses?

I should have prefaced it before, but public health and safety has to be paramount. The call to open indoor dining in New York City is not saying that we should have a disregard for public health and safety.

It’s actually the opposite.

I think we need to look at New York state’s experience with indoor dining before we start looking everywhere else.

The fact is, New York state has had indoor dining under the safety protocols developed by

the state for more than two months, and infection rates have continued to go down.

What does an ideal, safe reopening of indoor dining look like in New York City?

We believe that the requirements that apply to the rest of the state (should) also apply to the city. That means that you’d operate at a 50% reduced capacity, and tables six feet apart.

Fifty percent reduced capacity with tables six feet apart is the same in Staten Island as it is in Schenectady, New York.

Masks for employees are the same, and other procedures are the same.

Given the delay in the federal government getting another stimulus package together, to what extent are you able to pin your hopes on the federal government providing assistance to restaurants?

It’s my job to stay optimistic and keep fighting. We have the support of our U.S. senators and many of our members of Congress, but it’s gonna come down to getting support from other states around the country. So it’s hard to know what’s exactly going to happen. But that’s why we cannot count on the federal government to help save us.

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PPE PT. 2 Will essential workers have enough protective gear for a second wave?

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URING THE HEIGHT of the coronavirus pandemic, governments, hospitals and essential workers scrambled to find personal protective equipment. Health care workers – especially nurses – said they did not have an adequate supply of equipment, forcing them to reuse N95 masks and, at one Manhattan hospital, use garbage bags when they ran out of gowns. Even with the coronavirus currently under control in New York, workers are still struggling to make sure they’re safe on the job.

While workers who interact with the public are now provided with face masks by their employers, a hodgepodge of rules, guidance and executive orders has left employees in a tenuous position. Hospitals continue to struggle to procure enough equipment in advance of a potential second wave of the coronavirus, while other workers who want to speak out against unsafe working conditions remain unprotected by state legislation that stalled. And even if the state passed new laws to make employers’ duties more clear, global supply chain issues remain a significant hurdle.

However, when asked, state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker told the state Legislature during a hearing that, despite media reports and lawsuits from the New York State

Nurses Association, health care workers had access to enough protective equipment during the height of the pandemic. “We provided 24 million pieces of PPE, and there was available PPE to all those who needed it – granted there were different policies put into place about how to preserve some of the PPE equipment,” Zucker said last month.

A big question to come out of Zucker’s controversial comments was whether hospitals should be judged on traditional usage standards for equipment or whether they should be judged by the crisis rationing standards that were put in place when hospitals started depleting their stockpiles.

“The disconnect has been in that word ‘enough,’” New York State Nurses Association Executive Director Pat Kane told City & State, referring to Zucker’s comments. “I think the first thing we have to do is kind of agree that there isn’t enough. …

As long as we are using these conservation methods, that means there isn’t enough in the supply chain, by definition.” Kane said that even now some nurses are still reusing their protective equipment.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did issue guidance about the reuse of protective equipment, it acknowledged that the equipment was not designed

for such use and that it was not as safe as using new supplies. The CDC’s optimization guidance was meant to be used when a hospital’s supplies “are stressed, running low or exhausted,” according to its website.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a directive on April 13 that required all hospitals to provide at least one new N95 respirator to health care workers per day upon request. Kane said while the move was appreciated, one new mask per day still did not meet conventional guidelines for the use of protective equipment. In a traditional setting, that same N95 mask would be thrown out in between patients. Even so, The City reported that some hospitals could not comply with that minimal requirement. And last month, an anonymous video from nurses at one Dutchess County hospital alleged that the hospital was repackaging used sterilized masks as new masks. Because of how much hospitals have struggled to build up a stockpile of supplies, it’s unclear if they will be sufficiently prepared to avoid the widespread reuse of equipment if a second wave of the virus occurs.

In May, Cuomo said he would require hospitals to create a 90-day stockpile of protective equipment to prepare for a second wave. Hospitals that failed to do so would risk losing their license.

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Medical workers stand outside Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. The state says sufficient PPE was available for all medical workers who needed it, but the nurses union disagrees.

The state Health Department said the 90-day supply must be enough to match the rate that hospitals used protective equipment between April 13 and April 27. “This regulation is based (on) a utilization rate that is far higher than current levels and reflects peak demand so that NYS hospitals are prepared for any future outbreaks,” state Health Department spokesperson Jonah Bruno said in a statement to City & State.

At one point in late March, Northwell Health was using about 25,000 N95 masks per week, according to Politico New York, significantly more than the 20,000 per month on average it used prior to the pandemic. But even that huge number was limited due to rationing.

It’s for that reason that Kane expressed doubt that the mandated stockpile would actually provide an adequate amount of supplies, since rationing was so common at the height of the pandemic. A 90-day supply of equipment at the rate it was used in April could mean that hospitals would continue to ration equipment at a similar rate, which concerned experts at the time.

The Greater New York Hospital Association did not return a request for comment about how common this was among its member hospitals, although some lawmak-

ers said at a legislative hearing that they had heard about hospitals struggling to meet the stockpile mandate.

Kane said the state could require hospitals to gather a stockpile that didn’t factor in the rationing of equipment, but at the very least she said the state could also be more transparent about what it is doing and why. “They could say the supply chain’s bad and, you know, that means that less conventional guidelines have to be used, so be it,” she said.

Kane suggested that hospitals could invest in reusable protective equipment to help with the supply chain issues. “This means it’s actually more cost-effective when you look at the cost of disposables,” Kane said.

“And it means we don’t have to chase the supply chain. Once you give everyone one of these – you’re done.”

Essential workers in other industries are facing their own problems, but they have even less support to ensure their safety. Nothing is technically stopping the state, whether through legislation or executive action, from implementing COVID-19 health and safety measures since the federal government has not issued its own through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA. Virginia became the first state in the nation to issue workplace safety standards during the pandemic. New York is in a slightly more tricky situation though. Unlike in Virginia, OSHA handles workplace safety enforcement within the state. While Cuomo has issued executive orders, and state agencies have given official guidelines in light of federal inaction, the state lacks the enforcement apparatus. And federal employees cannot not enforce state guidance.

State Sen. Michael Gianaris and Assembly Member Karines Reyes recently announced legislation to help remedy the situation – the New York HERO Act. It would create enforceable safety regulations, including for protective equipment and sanitation, for industries to follow to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and protect workers. This would go beyond the current guidelines and provide the state Labor Department with the authority to issue fines for workplaces found not in compliance and allow workers to be involved in the enforcement of safety protocols. “If we empower workers to have input over their own space and have the ability to monitor and report on violations that are occurring in ways that

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affect them directly, that will be much more comprehensive,” Gianaris told City & State.

The legislation has not been introduced yet, but Gianaris hoped that it would be ready to be passed the next time the Legislature meets, which could be in the fall.

Another part of the enforcement problem has been the rapidly changing and unclear guidance. For instance, on April 12, Cuomo issued an executive order that required employers to provide face masks, at their own expense, to essential workers. The order didn’t include any information on minimal compliance for employers and no enforcement mechanisms aside from giving localities the authority to enforce the order, which was standard for public health mandates issued during the pandemic. A couple days later, the state Health Department issued guidance for that executive order, but still did not say how often employers had to provide masks, while adding that the inability to obtain face coverings did not relieve employers of their requirement. It also did not include information about how the order would be enforced. Newer regulations issued in July expanded the employer mask mandate to cover any worker who interacts with the public. According to the state Health Department, employers who violate this or other safety regulations could face fines of up to $1,000 and up to $10,000 for willful violations.

While reopening guidelines for different industries had certain minimal requirements for general safety, the rules did not include a mandate that employers would be responsible for providing protective equipment to their employees besides masks.

Employment and labor lawyer Miriam Clark previously told City & State that the amorphous safety guidelines provided little recourse for workers who faced retaliation for speaking out about unsafe working conditions. Clark said improving what she considered the state’s inadequate whistleblower protections was critical to ensuring that employers would be held liable if they were not protecting their employees. The state Legislature did not pass two pieces of legislation over the summer that would have changed the state’s whistleblower laws to better protect workers.

The state Labor Department said it had conducted about 30,000 inquiries related to COVID-19 and that about 90% of those cases were closed, often voluntarily once an employer was told about any requirements they were not meeting or rules they were breaking. However, the agency did not say whether any of the complaints were about the mask mandate. According to the department, one of the reasons an employee could file a complaint is if an employer was not following health and safety guidelines, including not providing protective equipment for those that interact with the public.

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How COVID-19 wrecked efforts to secure protections for the very workers we’ve come to rely on most.

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T THE BEGINNING of the year, it seemed like gig worker classification was going to be one of the biggest issues of New York’s state legislative session. California’s 2019 reclassification of gig workers such as app-based drivers as employees put the spotlight on New York, the next most labor-friendly state. Few expected that Albany would pass major legislation reclassifying workers this year, but momentum was building. Hearings were held, and multiple bills were introduced taking varied approaches to deciding whether

gig workers should remain classified as independent contractors, be reclassified as employees or be granted employment benefits in some other way. In his January budget proposal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a task force to study how gig workers should be classified and make recommendations by May 1 – or leave it to the state Department of Labor to introduce new regulations on its own. Dueling coalitions representing labor groups and gig companies were gearing up for a lobbying battle in Albany. By 2021, it seemed, the state might actually pass one of those bills.

You can probably guess what happened next: The coronavirus pandemic blew up the legislative agenda, bringing that momentum to a halt. When the Legislature passed a budget in April, it left out Cuomo’s task force proposal. Despite the fact that gig workers for companies such as Instacart and Grubhub found themselves on the front lines of the pandemic, delivering food and groceries to those able to work from home, comprehensive reform to grant those workers benefits like paid sick leave or overtime fell off the agenda.

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The pandemic has both underscored how necessary protections are for vulnerable gig workers and stalled legislation designed to do just that.

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Nonetheless, labor advocates are encouraged by a recent slate of small steps to grant those workers traditional benefits and by their belief that the financial stresses of the pandemic highlighted the need to change the rules for gig workers – potentially building political momentum for reclassification. A handful of court rulings this spring and summer affirmed that gig workers in certain industries should be considered employees for the purposes of receiving unemployment insurance.

State Sen. Diane Savino, who was one of

the first to introduce legislation to change gig workers’ classification, and who held a hearing on the issue last fall, said that when the conversation over gig workers began a few years ago, some weren’t sure whether these app-based workers would need the same protections as employees. “A lot of people thought, ‘Well, maybe they don’t need it in this new world,’ and that people can go out and make their own way and be masters of their own universe,’” she recalled. “And then the pandemic came and knocked everybody on their ass.”

HILE GIG WORKERS in New York are broadly classified as independent contractors – meaning they work for themselves and aren’t eligible for traditional employment benefits – two court rulings this year added some nuance. In March, just days after New York entered its pandemic lockdown, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that Postmates delivery workers could receive unemployment benefits. The court found that the relationship between a former Postmates driver and the platform did in fact constitute an employer-employee relationship, despite the company’s claims that its workers are self-employed.

Then, in July, a federal judge in New York ruled that the state must begin paying unemployment benefits to Uber and Lyft drivers, affirming a 2018 ruling that Uber drivers and other “similarly situated” drivers should be considered employees for the purposes of unemployment insurance.

The two court rulings are limited in the kind of benefits they extend and address only two kinds of gig workers. They don’t suddenly make Uber drivers eligible for overtime pay or give Postmates workers the right to organize. They also hold no immediate impacts for on-demand dog walkers or handymen.

But together, union and labor leaders say they are an important first step of recognizing that these kinds of app-based gig workers should be considered employees for the purposes of all employment benefits. “If you’re an employee, you’re not just an employee for one particular right,” said Mario Cilento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO. “You can’t be a little pregnant. Either you’re an employee or you’re not.”

Cilento said he now wants to see those rulings codified by the state and applied to all kinds of benefits. Some state lawmakers have expressed interest in reclassifying gig workers as employees, while others have tried to find solutions for granting workers more benefits without going that far. But Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, said these court rulings make such a “third way” approach unrealistic. “I think that those court decisions were a real game changer,” Desai said. “Now, if the Legislature wants to pass a watered down, third way bill – as the companies have been lobbying for – there’s no question that they would be taking away benefits from gig workers that have been established by the courts.”

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dangerous ground if it simply followed in the footsteps of states that have triggered a cascade of lawsuits and unintentionally harmed some freelancers. The best-known example is in California, where the recently passed law reclassifying gig workers has resulted in a series of court challenges, including from Uber and Lyft. When a California judge ruled in August that the companies had to comply with the law and start classifying their drivers as employees, both companies threatened that the order would force them to shut down in order to retool their business models. But just before a shutdown was set to begin, an appeals court granted the companies a reprieve that delays the requirement to reclassify their workers while the companies appeal the ruling.

Known as “AB5,” this new California law uses a more stringent method of worker classification with an “ABC test,” under which a worker is only classified as an independent contractor if they are (1) free from the control of their employer, (2) doing work outside the

usual course of business of an employer and (3) engaged in an independently established business. For example, an accountant who runs her own firm and is retained by a nonaccounting business to do its taxes would still be an independent contractor. But, under this test, most app-based gig platforms would have to start treating their drivers, couriers and task-doers as employees.

When it passed in California, the law garnered ferocious opposition from companies including Uber, Lyft and Doordash.

The financial cost of treating workers as employees, which would include providing them with health insurance, would be massive. The companies say there are other ways to grant their workers employment benefits without fundamentally altering their business models. Some have proposed creating portable benefits programs for their workers. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi recently wrote an op-ed in The New York Times calling for gig companies to contribute to benefits funds that their workers could use for the benefits that they

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upcoming presidential election are two very big variables in all of this – there are some contentious fights ahead involving businesses, the people they employ and the unions that represent them. Here are five issues to watch.

THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic has changed perceptions about whose jobs really matter in times of crisis. That includes grocery store workers, delivery drivers and others who worked outside the home at “essential businesses” that the state allowed to continue operating during the pandemic. Despite the newfound appreciation for these workers, many are still waiting for city, state and federal governments to give them the help they need to get through the pandemic and the economic damage it caused.

As more people return to work outside the home, they are joining the cause for new action on workplace safety and other issues. While it remains to be seen what will happen in the coming months – the ongoing pandemic and

Public sector unions are facing deep cuts to their ranks as the state and local governments grapple with the economic damage of the pandemic, including more than 22,000 possible layoffs in New York City alone. This will require everyone from teamsters to teachers to reconsider their collective bargaining agreements in order to help cities bridge budget gaps through pay freezes, early retirements and reduced health care benefits.

A new round of federal stimulus funding could in theory save them from making such concessions, but it is increasingly likely that thousands of jobs will depend on organized labor agreeing to live with less moving forward. However, some might try to carve out exemptions from cuts at the

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want. Uber and Lyft have both released polls showing broad support for this kind of plan among drivers and others currently classified as independent contractors.

AB5 hasn’t just been controversial because it upset gig companies, though. Others said that the state’s approach was overly broad. It has been overwhelmingly unpopular with freelance writers, for example, because it bars companies from accepting more than 35 submissions a year from freelancers. Any more, and the company would have to treat them as employees. A weekly opinion columnist, who is typically only working one to two days per week on his or her column, would now have to receive a full benefits package. But instead of suddenly hiring up all of their freelancers when the law went into effect in January, some of those companies simply cut back on the work they gave freelancers to get them below the 35-assignment threshold.

The fate of AB5 is still in flux. Uber, Lyft and Doordash have raised over $100 million to campaign for a ballot measure that

local or state levels. This could come through a variety of legislative avenues, from protecting agencies from budget cuts to pushing new legislation that would require higher staffing levels.

HAZARD PAY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state lawmakers and other elected leaders agree that front-line workers deserve more pay for all the work they continue to do during the pandemic while others stay home. This could be a 50% increase in overall pay during the ongoing public health emergency, as the governor proposed back in April. Pending legislation in the state Legislature would set up a hazard pay program that would also include two additional weeks of vacation.

There are two big hurdles to getting this over the finish line. The first is determining who qualifies as an “essential worker.” A future hazard pay program could cover anyone from front-line health care workers (doctors, nurses and hospital staff ) to public employees (cops, firefighters and professional bureaucrats) to

millions of people in other positions like grocery store clerks, building cleaning staff and home health aides. An even bigger limiting factor in getting hazard pay passed is finding a way to pay for it. Elected officials are still hoping the federal government will foot the bill, though some state lawmakers say increasing taxes on the wealthy offers a different path at the state level.

EXCLUDED WORKERS While pandemic aid programs have helped millions, there are some categories of people (undocumented people, the incarcerated and gig workers) who have missed out on government aid despite their various needs. For example, many food delivery workers are undocumented immigrants who do not qualify for things like stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits and food stamps. This situation is unlikely to change in the near future at the federal level despite passage of some

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“A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUGHT, ‘WELL, MAYBE THEY DON’T NEED (PROTECTIONS) IN THIS NEW WORLD.’ AND THEN THE PANDEMIC CAME AND KNOCKED EVERYBODY ON THEIR ASS.”

similar debate has taken shape in New York over the past few years, though to much less fanfare. Multiple pieces of legislation have been introduced in Albany that would change how app-based gig companies have to treat their workers. State Sen. Robert Jackson and Assembly Member Deborah Glick intro– state Sen. Diane Savino duced a bill a year ago that would classify workers under an ABC test, similar to AB5. Before that, Savino and Assembly Member Marcos Crespo introduced legwould exempt them from AB5 – keeping islation in June of last year that would create workers for companies like theirs classi- a third classification of worker – a “depenfied as independent contractors, while re- dent worker” – which would capture appquiring the companies to start paying for based gig workers and extend to this group some employment benefits for their work- the right to organize and collectively bargain, ers, such as minimum wage and health along with other protections.

Groups on both sides of the issue cocare contributions. Californians will vote alesced to promote their interests in Albany on that measure this November.

Though much of the focus of the gig work- as the debate heated up. The NY Do It Right er issue has been on AB5 in California, a Employment Classification Test Coalition,

which is made up of labor groups including the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and 32BJ SEIU, favors a full reclassification solution using an ABC test. On the other end of the spectrum is the Flexible Work for New York coalition, which is made up of business industry groups and individual gig companies such as Grubhub and TaskRabbit. This group argued that what gig workers value is their flexible work schedules and that classifying them as employees would eliminate the ability to work whenever or wherever they want.

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HE FACT THAT New York’s gig worker debate has taken place in the shadow of California’s controversial AB5 saga means that lawmakers have proceeded cautiously. Even those who say they favor an ABC test acknowledge that New York has to be careful to avoid California’s pitfalls. Rafael Espinal, the former City Council Member who now serves as president of the Freelancers Union, has been paying especially close attention to

Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, estimated it would help as many as 120,000 people get through a time of record unemployment in New York.

The $750-per-week benefit would be paid for by a new tax on stock transfers. With the governor and key state lawmakers not yet behind raising taxes broadly speaking, it remains to be seen how far the proposed legislation can advance in the state Capitol.

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WORKPLACE SAFETY State lawmakers are also pushing a bill that would require an employer to notify workers of outbreaks in workplaces like Amazon’s sprawling warehouses. Another effort aims to require

Many workers who risked their lives on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis are still awaiting hazard pay. New York lawmakers hope for federal aid to change that.

aid for undocumented people in the stimulus bill passed by House Democrats in May. Supporters of a proposal to establish a new state fund

to help excluded workers argue that it helps the overall economy by stimulating billions in economic activity. A recent report from the Fiscal

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workplaces to have pandemic preparedness plans and plenty of PPE available at job sites of all types. A bill introduced by state Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris in August would mandate minimum workplace safety requirements in the new normal, based on many of the labor-related executive orders that Cuomo issued during the pandemic. The so-called New York HEROES Act would also include additional rules for testing, PPE and other health-focused workplace requirements.

Meanwhile, political forces on the other side of the political spectrum are hoping that the pandemic will finally help them win a decades-old fight to amend the Scaffold Law, a 19th-century law that makes employers responsible for injuries on the job. Political pressure from the construction industry did not get the governor to use his emergency powers to suspend such requirements earlier this year, but it does signal that many of the same fights will continue over how much responsibility employers have for making sure their workers are safe.

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California’s efforts. “I think it’s important that the bill sponsors here in New York take a closer look and learn from the lessons, and make sure that whatever moves forward has the best interests of all parties in mind,” Espinal said. “We understand that there are misclassified workers, and we support any effort to deal with that issue, but we also have to ensure that professional freelancers and the freelance workforce as a whole is not hurt through unintended consequences.”

But even though California’s gig worker debate is arguably more fraught than ever, the pandemic is adding a new urgency for New York to address gig worker rights now. “I just feel like we’re, as a country, collectively guilty of appalling hypocrisy,” said New York City Council Member Brad Lander. “We stood out on our stoops and cheered at 7 every night. We were cheering for a lot of people – doctors and nurses and grocery store workers – but the ones most likely to actually go down the block while we were cheering were restaurant delivery California’s labor law changes have become a cautionary tale for New York labor advocates, workers.” This spring, Lander introduced who don’t want to unintentionally make things worse for workers. legislation that would use a modified ABC test to workers need, in terms of so-called ‘freelancers’ have been left out make New York City gig health care, retirement in the cold when it comes to unemployworkers entitled to paid security and workers’ ment benefits and workplace protecsick leave, noting the risk tions,” he said in an emailed comment. comp,” he said. that the majority of these Lander’s paid sick “The need to reclassify these workers as workers faced during a leave legislation still has ‘employees’ is more urgent now than ever public health crisis. not progressed in the before, and I continue to work on legislaWhile workers clascouncil, but he point- tion that addresses those needs.” sified as independent Meanwhile, some of those fighted to Council Speakcontractors received feder Corey Johnson when ing against attempts to reclassify New eral Pandemic Unemasked about the delay. York’s gig workers as employees readiployment Assistance, “Legislation in the City ly admit the fact that the pandemic has they were left out of New Council moves forward brought these workers’ lack of protecYork’s emergency paid when the speaker moves tions into harsh light, but say that the sick leave legislation. it forward,” Lander said. state can create a new way to grant those In the spring, some gig “To me, it’s now like the benefits without requiring reclassificacompanies began offering City Council has denied tion. “Everyone agrees that workers depaid sick leave because of these workers paid sick serve benefits and protections, but there the pandemic, but critics – New York City Council leave that we could be are many wrong ways to pursue a worthsay workers shouldn’t be Member Brad Lander giving them.” A repre- while goal,” Ryan Naples, deputy direcreliant on the goodwill of sentative for Johnson did tor at Tech:NYC, a technology industry companies to receive ad not immediately respond group whose members include gig comhoc benefits. to a request for comment. panies such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash and And the status quo creEven if that legislation does pass, it won’t Handy, wrote over email. “Just as Caliates a public health risk. If a delivery worker, for example, has COVID-19 but goes to be the complete solution that gig work- fornia is dealing with the consequences work because they can’t use paid sick leave, ers need, Lander said. “We need that big of capriciously reclassifying millions of comprehensive change at the state level,” workers, so too could New York create a they could end up spreading the virus.

Using examples like app-based couriers he said. “This was designed, in part, to mess for itself without a thoughtful, flexdelivering food to people in quarantine or be a step to build momentum for it. Paid ible framework.”

Though the state Legislature has been Amazon Flex workers delivering packag- sick leave is the one area that we have figes amid a surge in online shopping, Lander ured out that the city could implement on largely silent on the gig worker issue also noted that a lack of employment pro- its own. In other areas of employment law, during the pandemic, Savino hinted that new legislation may be forthcoming. tections hits already marginalized commu- we’re preempted.”

Jackson, the sponsor of the state bill While she wouldn’t detail what a new nities especially hard. “In the context of the racial reckoning, (there’s) a real under- that would create an ABC test for work- approach would look like, she acknowlstanding that we’re talking overwhelming- ers, echoed the notion that the pandemic edged that both the pandemic and the ly about workers of color, and yet we’ve just only makes the need for reclassification recent court rulings on Postmates, Uber totally failed to show up for them and pro- more clear. “So many home healthcare and Lyft, have changed the conversation. vide them even the basics of paid sick leave workers, app-based drivers, nail salon “We’re certainly taking a different look at – much less the broader set of benefits that workers, childcare providers, and other it than we were in January,” she said.

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Labor has stuck with the establishment – and lost. Will unions learn to love the DSA?

United Federation of Teachers members joined Black Lives Matter protesters in a National Day of Resistance.

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NDORSING JABARI BRISPORT might have seemed like an obvious choice for the United Federation of Teachers in the spring. Brisport, a UFT member who teaches at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, a public middle school in Brooklyn, was running for an open Brooklyn state Senate seat.

And his most prominent opponent in the Democratic primary, Assembly Member Tremaine Wright, was a supporter of charter schools, while the union and Brisport are against them. But when it came time to endorse candidates, the UFT sided with Wright over its own member.

Of course, the UFT was just following the crowd. Wright, an attorney who has served in the Assembly since 2017, was endorsed

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by most of the city’s biggest labor unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ SEIU, District Council 37 and Transport Workers Union Local 100. Brisport got the backing of just two smaller unions, UNITE HERE Local 100 and Teamsters Local 814.

Brisport ended up winning decisively, with 58% of the vote to Wright’s 34%, thanks to support from left-wing grassroots activists, including the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. NYC-DSA also helped three other candidates to victory over incumbent state legislators. It would have been understandable for Brisport to hold UFT in contempt and gloat in the light of his upset victory. Instead, he reached out to leaders at UFT, 1199, the New York State Nurses

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Association and other unions that had supported his opponent. “We said we just want to make sure we’re on a good foot,” Brisport told City & State. “We want to have good personal relationships with all of them, not just for our personal benefit, but because unions are good. And we want to make sure we’re supporting them in their endeavors at every opportunity in the next few years.”

Democratic socialists such as Brisport generally support labor unions, seeing them as a way of empowering the working class against capitalist control. At meetings, DSA members sing the anthem “Solidarity Forever,” the lyrics of which declare that “the union makes us strong.”

But unions in New York never seem to share the same love for the leftist candidates, at least when it comes to elections. In race after race, unions line up behind the incumbent – rather than a challenger coming from the left. When there is no incumbent, as in Brisport’s race, the unions generally side with the candidate who has already held office.

That’s in part because unions, especially public-sector unions that are bargaining with the government, want to be on the good side of the future winner.

But now, in many races, siding with the establishment means backing the losing candidate. In state legislative primaries in 2018 and 2020, incumbents have been frequently out-organized by progressive coalitions that go beyond the DSA to include the Working Families Party, the Sunrise Movement and New York Communities for Change. So in the next round of Democratic primaries, in 2021’s New York City municipal elections, unions will have to either forge a new, more in-

“YOUNG RADICALS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS: THE LABOR MOVEMENT IS MORE ENCUMBERED IN TERMS OF PRESERVING RELATIONSHIPS THAN INDEPENDENT ACTIVISTS WHO ARE NOT ANSWERABLE TO A PARTICULAR CONSTITUENCY.”

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surgent-friendly, progressive coalition, or find a way to beat back the challengers.

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EW YORK CITY’S major labor unions have always been some of the best endorsements a candidate can get, with the ability to bring an influx of volunteers, money and organizing prowess – which can go far in low-turnout local primaries. As county party organizations faded in size and influence, labor unions picked up the slack , particularly as validators. The appearance of an 1199 logo on a candidate’s flyer is a clear sign they’ve got a good chance at winning. In New York City, more than 21% of workers belong to a union, and statewide, it’s nearly 22% – among the highest rates in the country.

In return, the unions get support for their legislative priorities. But while members of progressive advocacy groups are united by a shared political vision, union members are united by a profession. Unions’ policy goals are often less about changing the way the political system operates than about their members’ interests. So labor’s support of incumbents is often less about the individual politician, and more about the very practical desire to join the winning team. That’s why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t get any labor endorsements ahead of her upset over then-Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018, as Communications Workers of America District 1 Political Director Bob Master explained to the socialist magazine Jacobin in 2019.

“Young radicals need to understand this,” he said. “The labor movement is more encumbered in terms of preserving those relationships than independent activists who are not answerable to a particular constituency, and there are going to be tensions there.”

By the same token, these establishment-friendly unions don’t have a worldview that would prevent them from backing a leftist once she wins office. In 2020, the endorsement lists of Ocasio-Cortez and state Sen. Julia Salazar were stacked with labor unions that had backed their opponents two years earlier. “We have permanent interests – we don’t have permanent friends or permanent enemies,” 1199 Political Director Gabby Seay told City & State. “So, any person who reaches out and says, ‘How can we better serve your members?’ We’ll open that door.”

And just this summer, that was Brisport, who knocked on Seay’s proverbial door with an email after his win. The way Brisport sees it, it’s “a common understanding” that most of the unions have their backs against the wall when it comes to making endorsements because of their relationships with the political establishment. “Nobody sees these endorsements in DSA and says, ‘Oh, now we have bad blood because of that.’

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committed members than the DSA, LaBarbera noted, especially among blue-collar workers. “I call them keyboard warriors,” he said. “It’s very easy to go on Instagram and Twitter, which is a lot of what they do, through social media.”

NYC-DSA’s rank-and-file strategy is still moving forward. And DSA members understand the hesitation from labor unions to partner with them, since the organization has only recently become a political force.

If unions are going to “test the waters a little bit with a new ally, they should want a demonstration of credibility and strength,” said Matthew Thomas, a member of NYCDSA’s Queens branch who is also communications director for Zohran Mamdani,

Jabari Brisport is a teacher and a member of the UFT who ran against Assembly Member Tremaine Wright. The teachers union backed his incumbent opponent. He won the race anyway.

While organizations like New York Community for Change and Make the Road New York supported a public campaign finance system, most of the state’s unions stood against it, fearing it could reduce their influence. That debate didn’t come long after the 2018 gubernatorial election, when many of the state’s most powerful unions, including 32BJ and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, left the WFP after the party endorsed Cynthia Nixon over Cuomo.

While unions have partnered with more ideological progressive activists at times, some labor leaders have bristled at the thought of associating with the DSA, which is more extreme than their sometime allies in the WFP. When the NYC-DSA’s Labor Branch publicly released details of a “rank-and-file strategy” encouraging DSA members to take jobs and become members of certain unions in order to push them to the left, many labor leaders seemed offended. That strategy “is only going to divide” the labor movement, DC37 Executive Director Henry Garrido told Politico New York in 2019. Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, is also holding the DSA at an arm’s length. In an August interview with City & State, he gave the organization credit for managing their media coverage well, but said that “candidly, the DSA, their positions can be very controversial,” citing the organization’s opposition to building an Amazon headquarters in Queens. And labor unions have far more

a DSA member who defeated Assembly Member Aravella Simotas in the recent Democratic primary and is headed to win her Queens seat in November. “I’m hopeful that we’ve been able to demonstrate that over the last few cycles, and that we’ve been able to build enough power and credibility.”

The 2021 New York City elections are an obvious opportunity for such a relationship.

Due to term limits and retirements, at least 35 City Council seats will be open, as well as four borough presidencies. The mayor and comptroller will also be term-limited out.

NYC-DSA is expected to focus primarily on City Council seats, and any candidate with their backing will instantly become a top contender, given the organization’s success in the 2020 primaries. And it’s not just DSA candidates. Other progressive challengers, such as Khaleel Anderson, Emily Gallagher and Jessica González-Rojas, won Assembly

primaries against candidates with more labor union support, thanks in part to the backing of progressive organizations, even as NYC-DSA stayed out. Lately, voters in every corner of the city seem more inclined to vote for progressive newcomers than the kind of candidate who has toiled away in establishment politics for years, building relationships with labor union decision makers.

So if labor unions want to maintain their power and pick winners, they may have to start backing more socialists.

One race to watch will be in City Council District 22, covering the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria and East Elmhurst, where former Queens district attorney candidate Tiffany Cabán is expected to run to fill the seat being vacated by the term-limited City Council Member Costa Constantinides. Cabán was backed by a progressive coalition, including the DSA, in her 2019 district attorney campaign, but was endorsed by only one union, while three of her opponents each had more than a dozen union endorsements. Cabán is still a prototypical DSA candidate: a young person of color with leftist ideological purity and little experience working professionally in politics. But other candidates in the council race have the resume more typically favored by labor.

Rod Townsend is the former president of the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City, which often aligns with labor to back incumbents, and Nick Roloson is Constantinides’ chief of staff, and has worked as a political aide for a decade. Those two might be battling it out for the major unions’ endorsements in a typical cycle, but this time around, Cabán would be entering the race as a heavy favorite. If labor unions want to win, they may have to go with Cabán.

That pattern could play out in districts across the city, and 2021 could be a referendum on unions’ electoral influence in New York City. Lately, unions are “definitely getting outclassed by the Justice Democrats and DSA,” former Assembly Member Michael Benjamin, who sits on the New York Post Editorial Board, told City & State.

“They’re putting boots on the ground and boots on the internet.”

Unions insist their power isn’t waning.

“Electeds wouldn’t be seeking our support or endorsements if it didn’t matter. It’s self-explanatory and self-evident,” said LaBarbera, adding that four candidates called him in the previous day alone. But Big Labor may want to recalibrate its strategy, because not every future winner they reject will be as conciliatory as Brisport.

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HERE’S AMPLE PRECEDENT for agreement between labor and progressives. Even while the WFP and CWA District 1 were running races against each other, both were calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state legislators to pass a wealth tax on billionaires to help close the state’s yawning budget gap.

And 32BJ got a lot of credit for partnering with progressive groups in 2018 to oust then-state Sen. Jeff Klein, who had kept Democrats out of power during part of his tenure as head of the Independent Democratic Conference.

But there have also been moments of conflict between labor unions and progressive organizations, even outside of elections.

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FARMING OUT THE BURDEN

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The state is considering lowering farmworkers’ overtime threshold to 40 hours per week like everyone else.

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AST YEAR, New York state passed a law guaranteeing workers at more than 35,000 farms rights that most other workers already had, including access to overtime pay, guaranteed time off and the ability to engage in collective bargaining.

Now, a state wage board has until the end of the year to decide on potential changes to overtime rules under the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act. The new law requires farms to pay overtime at one-and-a-half times the normal rate when farmworkers work more than 60 hours in a week or on their guaranteed day of rest as of this year. The board could lower that threshold to 40 hours per week to match overtime rates in other industries. Farm owners are calling to keep the 60-hour threshold, which they say has already proven onerous and led them to cut workers’ hours, while advocates for farmworkers are pushing for overtime pay past 40 hours a week of work to provide equitable treatment for workers.

The law created a farm laborers wage board to hold hearings and consider whether the overtime threshold should be reduced. It’s a particularly important issue for agricultural workers, about 42% of whom work more than 41 hours a week compared with just 26% of private sector employees. The three members of the wage board – which includes one member each from labor and the agricultural industry – have until the end of December to deliver a report on recommendations for the state Legislature and the governor.

Farm owners have been cutting hours for workers since the law’s implementation to bypass the overtime rules, arguing it creates too great an expense. The nature of farming’s dependence on weather conditions make farms different from many other industries, farmers argued during the wage board’s recent hearings, saying they may need to work longer hours when the weather is better.

Will-O-Crest Farm, a dairy farm in the Ontario County town of Clifton Springs, has paid out 3,000 hours of overtime, costing an additional $20,000, for example. “These numbers do not include our corn harvest, which is starting soon and is our biggest labor demand,” Will-O-Crest Farm representative Hannah Wordon said during the Aug. 26 hearing. A threshold lowered to 40 hours a week would create a 7% increase in the farm’s labor costs, which is already its second highest cost, she said.

But organizers and advocates for workers have argued that agriculture isn’t unique

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in being weather dependent – as the construction industry faces similar challenges – and shouldn’t be exempt from guaranteeing similar worker rights. “The financial burden shouldn’t be put on the shoulders of the worker,” said Angel Reyes, Long Island coordinator at the Rural and Migrant Ministry, which advocates for farmworkers. “It perhaps should be something the state should negotiate through state credits. … Maybe they could find some creative ways to not make the worker pay the price for it.”

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Several farm owners have argued that their workers are complaining about cuts to their hours made to avoid paying overtime. Brian Reeves, president of the NYS Vegetable Growers Association and owner of Reeves Farm, said his 63 employees are working under H-2A visas for seasonal work and would prefer to work longer hours – which could mean as much as 75hour work weeks – to make more money.

“Most of my guys, as of Aug. 28 in 2020, they will have less money in their pocket than they had on Aug. 28 in 2019, because they worked more hours (last year),” he said.

But advocates have said that the whole point of the law is to ensure workers don’t have to work relentless hours to earn enough money. “If people could work 40 to 50 hours or 60 hours and earn overtime, they wouldn’t have to work 70, 80, 90 hours a week to earn the same amount,”

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said Emma Kreyche, advocacy director at the Worker Justice Center of New York.

Crispin Hernandez, a former dairy worker and organizer with the Workers’ Center of Central New York, also said the recent hearings which have largely featured the perspective of farm owners are often inaccessible to farmworkers who may be interested in offering input. “They’re using COVID to advance their own agenda, and there isn’t even equal accessibility to participation because they do these hearings in the middle of the day while people are working,” he said through a translator, noting that many people also lack internet access to attend the virtual meetings.

Several farmworkers continue to remain unaware of the rights guaranteed to them under the law, organizers told City & State, and cases have popped up in which employers aren’t following several of the provisions, such as requiring a day of rest each week for workers. Outreach, education and organizing around the law – especially early on in the coronavirus pandemic – often took lower priority as organizations scrambled to find financial support and health resources for farmworkers. “A lot of workers do not get that notification from their employers,” said Fabiola Ortiz Valdez, who coordinates with the New York Immigration Coalition’s member organizations involved in workers rights in central New York. The Rural and Migrant Ministry’s mask distributions at farms, however, created an opportunity to also give out information on worker rights. “That was one of our biggest outreach efforts ever,” Reyes said.

The next step to supporting farmworkers comes down to additional legislation, advocates said, after outbreaks swept through many farms upstate. Workers reported that they lacked sufficient personal protective equipment, and access to health care was often hampered by limited transportation, language barriers and fears of deportation. Several have come out in support of state Sen. Michael Gianaris’ proposed legislation to require the state Department of Labor to come up with enforceable health and safety measures essential businesses must follow to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Others have also called for the state to step in to offer relief for undocumented immigrants, who have been cut out of unemployment benefits and federal stimulus checks.

“We’ve always been essential, not just during this pandemic,” Hernandez said.

“Every day of the year, there are farmworkers working.”

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ful one-two punch on New York’s workers, putting many front-line employees at risk of contracting the deadly virus while also hammering the local economy, leading to mass layoffs. Yet the labor movement is battling back, proving its resilience and its worth in securing protections for workers while lobbying against further layoffs.

Our latest Labor Power 100 list highlights the labor leaders who are influencing the government’s response – whether it’s how to restart schools or save transit systems or ensure adequate health care – as well as the state’s leading activists, academics and elected officials who are ensuring that working New Yorkers are not forgotten as they serve on the front lines of an unprecedented crisis.

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replacement for front-line workers and those furloughed, Cilento was among those who successfully lobbied for state legislation mandating death benefits for the families of workers who died of COVID-19.

Michael Mulgrew is a key voice deciding what schools look like during the pandemic.

1 MICHAEL MULGREW

President United Federation of Teac hers As head of New York City’s teachers union, Michael Mulgrew plays a critical role in determining what public education looks like during the coronavirus crisis. The longest-serving classroom teacher to head the UFT, Mulgrew demanded improved safety measures, better ventilation and cleaning, and rapid, randomized testing and contact tracing – and his threat of a strike just forced Mayor Bill de Blasio to delay the start of school until later in September.

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GEORGE GRESHAM President 119 9 SEIU

A powerful voice in New York politics, George Gresham advanced labor’s involvement with Black Lives Matter long

before nationwide protests erupted over the police killing of George Floyd. Now in his fifth three-year term, Gresham advocates for the 60,000 members working in New York nursing homes amid the pandemic – many of them doing so, he said, “without adequate personal protective equipment and while being denied needed paid sick time.”

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Executive Director Distric t Cou nc il 37 When much of New York closed due to the coronavirus, members of District Council 37 - the city’s largest public employees union - were still going to jobs, including

nurse’s aides, EMTs and lab techs. “My members are being overlooked,” Henry Garrido said in April. To that end, the union provided personal protective gear to members, including school cafeteria workers feeding families during the pandemic.

4 MARIO CILENTO

President New York State AFL-CIO Recently reelected president of the state AFL-CIO, Mario Cilento’s primary role these days is protecting publicservice workers whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus. An advocate for paid sick leave, health coverage, and wage

Gresham advanc ed labor’s involvement with BLM long before this year’s protests.

5 ANDREW PALLOTTA

President New York State United Teac hers Reelected president of the New York State United Teachers union in May, Andrew Pallotta has been advocating for a state plan in reopening schools and a mask mandate. Pallotta has been warning of the impact of education budget cuts and calling on the federal government to step in and provide further aid. NYSUT has also flexed its muscle at the ballot box, helping turn the state Senate blue in 2018.

6 GARY LABARBERA

President Bu ilding and Constru c tion Trades Cou nc il of Greater New York After helping secure an expansion of New York’s prevailing wage, albeit with a delayed start, Gary LaBarbera is contending with keeping construction workers safe during the pandemic, including ensuring procedures are in place to

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prevent infections. LaBarbera and de Blasio recently signed an agreement to hire more workers from low-income communities and communities of color – both of which have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

7 STUART APPELBAUM

President Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Representing tens of thousands of retail workers on the front lines during the coronavirus, Stuart Appelbaum wants “a scientific, health-driven approach” to reopening the economy. This means the enforcement of mask mandates, plexiglass partitions at registers, and sanitizer and gloves for workers, along with additional breaks for hand-washing. As he wrote in late May: “Our union knows all too well that this is a matter of life or death.”

8 KYLE BRAGG

President 32 BJ SEIU A year after being thrust into his leadership role after the death of 32BJ SEIU President Hector Figueroa, Kyle Bragg took to the streets after the police killing of George Floyd.

He also worked to protect Black essential workers commuting to work during the New York City curfew. As he told LaborPress in June: “They

still have to travel while Black and they don’t know what the outcome (will be.)”

which advocates on behalf of taxi, app-based and other drivers, successfully argued the state was unfairly taking months to pay unemployed drivers while processing benefits for other workers in a few weeks.

that school administrators and teachers need more time to safely coordinate remote and in-person learning. Principals “don’t have all the answers they would like to have for the families and parents,” Cannizzaro said.

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Mark Cannizzaro, who runs the union representing New York City school principals, says it’s too soon to get students back into the classroom, and he’s urging City Hall to delay in-person learning. He told NY1 in August

President New York City Central Labor Cou nc il As president of the New York City Central Labor Council, Vincent Alvarez speaks for 1.3 million workers in 300 unions. He also has a say in New York’s response to COVID-19: In May, Alvarez was tapped by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to be part of a regional “control room,” and de Blasio appointed him to a business sector council helping to plot the city’s reopening.

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Executive Director New York Taxi Workers Allianc e A federal judge in late July ruled in favor of Uber and Lyft drivers fighting to be treated like other workers, thanks in no small part to Bhairavi Desai and the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. The group,

Kyle Bragg has led 32BJ SEIU since the death of Hector Figueroa.

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District 1 vice president, Dennis Trainor, have both stressed the importance of the coming election and racial justice to their 145,000 members in District 1. They warn tens of thousands more layoffs could be ahead if Congress fails to provide financial aid.

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Harry Nespoli is trying to stem the impact of budget cuts to his union’s membership, who are the essential workers keeping the city clean. Done poorly, the fiscal tightening could lead to overflowing trash cans and workers untrained in snow removal come winter, he warns. As the chair of New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee, Nespoli recently accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of prematurely spreading fear about possible layoffs among city workers.

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New York City Comptroller Among the city officials who joined essential workers in honoring Janitors for Justice and the Black Lives Matter movement in June, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer described

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those on the front lines as the “backbone of our city.”

Stringer, whose mother died of COVID-19 in April, penned a report to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the city’s response to the pandemic.

He has also proposed shifting police department funds to vulnerable communities.

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Chair State Senate Committee on Labor Known to friends and colleagues for her nononsense approach, Jessica Ramos’ penchant for bluntness helped position her

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Maroko has big shoes to fill as he su c c eeds the Hotel and Motel Trades Cou nc il’s longtime leader, Peter Ward. as an outspoken progressive in her first term as a state senator. In July, she blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nominations for the New York State Court of Claims for lacking diversity, saying the judges would play “an integral role in ensuring the state and its respective authorities are held accountable when sued.”

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York Hotel and Motel Trades Council’s longtime leader, Peter Ward. And the stakes are even higher due to a pandemic that is threatening the union’s 40,000 members.

The hotel industry is generating little revenue, and health care costs run about $50 million a month, although the union has an influential ally in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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President New York Hotel and Motel Trades Cou nc il Rich Maroko has big shoes to fill as he succeeds the New Randi Weingarten leads the American Federation of Teachers.

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President Americ an Federation of Teac hers If authorities don’t look out for the health and safety of educators, “nothing is off the table.” So says Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the country’s second-largest teachers union. The AFT will engage in actions including advocacy, protests, negotiations, grievances, lawsuits and walkouts to ensure schools safely reopen to protect its 1.7 million members, she told her union’s online convention in July.

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority spared it a massive financial hit, but only temporarily, according to John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union International. The influential transit union leader recently penned an op-ed with the MTA’s Pat Foye warning that the system is facing “a fivealarm-fire” – and that U.S. Senate Republicans seem “content to sit back and do nothing while it burns.”

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NYSNA has staged protests and gone to c ou rt to demand that more be done to protec t nu rses. to critical services,” he stated in August.

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President Transport Workers Union Loc al 100 Transport Workers Union Local 100 was fighting for masks from the start of the current public health crisis.

“Our members want them. It’s peace of mind,” Tony Utano, president of the local, told City & State earlier this year. The union, which represents New York City transit workers, also pushed to keep employees in token booths from having to collect cash, and for partitions in buses between the public and operators.

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State Comptroller Elected to his local board of education when he was 18, Thomas DiNapoli ran because he wanted the views of students to be heard. The three-term state comptroller intends to run again in 2022. Lately, he’s called for federal aid for states and towns hammered by COVID-19.

“Without action, communities may need to make severe cuts State Sen. Andrew Gounardes champions public workers.

Taking the helm of the state’s largest nurses union in December, former operatingroom nurse Pat Kane was soon tackling safety issues related to the coronavirus.

NYSNA has staged protests and gone to court to demand that more be done to protect members, including more personal protective equipment, adequate testing and paid time off for those ordered to self-quarantine. In August, NYSNA stated its opposition to in-person schooling this fall.

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Chair State Senate Civil Servic e and Pensions Committee Since his 2018 election, when he ousted Brooklyn’s last Republican senator, Andrew Gounardes has proved to be an avid supporter of public sector employees. He called for a delay of in-person learning until “we have the safety protocols and PPE for teachers to feel safe.”

For instance, he noted that the city’s plan called for custodians to keep soap

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dispensers fully stocked, but offered no details as to how the supply chain would work.

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Chair Assembly Governmental Employees Committee A strong advocate for public sector employees, Peter Abbate Jr. helped pass a bill in late May providing financial benefits to the families of public workers who died of COVID-19. In June, the longtime Assembly member joined other Brooklyn politicians in hosting a virtual roundtable with Chinese American community and business leaders to address their needs during the pandemic, particularly in light of rising xenophobia and discrimination.

24 WAYNE SPENCE

President New York State Pu blic Employees Federation As the state continues to reopen during the pandemic, Wayne Spence is pushing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to require adequate air filtration systems in buildings where state workers are employed. Making the call as president of one of the state’s largest public labor unions, Spence in July said the same standards should apply to the public sector as those the state imposes on large malls and other private sector businesses.

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de Blasio for failing to provide personal protective equipment for thousands of city workers.

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President New York City Polic e Benevolent Assoc iation The outspoken leader of the union representing 24,000 active-duty police officers, Patrick Lynch is known for expressing his indignation anytime an officer is criticized.

He did, however, call the police killing of George Floyd “murder.” Lynch’s opposition to police reform was overrun in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests this summer, with chokeholds now banned across the state and the repeal of a law that shielded records of police misconduct.

26 JAKE LEMONDA

President Uniformed Fire O ffic ers Assoc iation Six-term president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association Jake Lemonda has been focused on the coronavirus and its impact on firefighters. Firefighters no longer socialize with their

replacements at the end of their shifts, and the FDNY has also suspended the practice of letting firefighters pick up shifts at other station houses to mitigate the spread.

“There’s as little interaction as possible to limit exposure,” he said in March.

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President Teamsters Loc al 2 37 The movement to defund the NYPD has Teamsters Local 237 President Gregory Floyd up in arms over a related idea that would impact his union’s more than 5,000 school safety agents. Floyd strongly opposes a proposal to transfer responsibility for school safety back to the New York City Department of Education. In March, he criticized Mayor Bill

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President Uniformed Firefighters Assoc iation of Greater New York With firefighters distressed by the Uniformed Firefighters Association’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Andrew Ansbro challenged and defeated incumbent Gerard Fitzgerald in June.

Members saw inmates and even tigers getting tested for COVID-19, yet had a hard time getting tested themselves, Ansbro told reporters in July. “This has to be handled differently if there’s another flare-up,” the FDNY marine engineer and former cop added.

ROBERT BONANZA & MICHAEL MCGUIRE Business Manager; PAC director Mason Tenders’ Distric t Cou nc il of Greater New York and Long Island

Robert Bonanza and Michael McGuire have built the Mason Tenders into a powerhouse that is actively addressing sexism on the job. After New York City-based Trade Off Construction Services agreed in July to pay $1.5 million to settle discrimination claims by 18 women, Bonanza said that “sexual harassment in

Lync h’s opposition to polic e reform was overru n in the wake of BLM protests.

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Commissioner New York City O ffic e of Labor Relations In charge of negotiating labor pacts with 150 bargaining units representing more than 360,000 workers, Renee Campion has held the commissioner’s job less than two years but has been with the labor office for nearly two decades. Among her accomplishments: The de Blasio administration has reached an agreement

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Christopher Erikson is touting the potential of the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line project to create more than 2,000 muchneeded construction jobs.

In an op-ed in the Gotham Gazette in July, Erikson called for such public works efforts to “put wages for working New Yorkers back into the economy and let our hardhit state speed the healing by rebuilding our aging infrastructure.”

the construction industry is pervasive, but the state of New York will always be on the side of the workers.”

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with nearly 84% of the workforce, including civilian and uniformed employees, for the 2017-2021 round of bargaining, according to the city’s website.

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“We c annot have worker rights withou t immigrant rights, or vic e versa,” Teamsters’ Miranda said in a statement. hit, increasing concerns for themselves and their families, Durso wrote in a piece for Long Island Business News.

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President Teamsters Joint Cou nc il 16 The U.S. Supreme Court’s June rejection of a challenge to the DACA program that keeps 650,000 young people from deportation was huge for Teamsters Joint Council 16 President George Miranda.

“We cannot have worker rights without immigrant rights, or vice versa,” Miranda, who also heads the Teamsters National Hispanic Caucus, said in a statement. During New York City’s reopening, Miranda urged elected officials to ensure the safety of essential workers – who are predominantly people of color.

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President Long Island Federation of Labor In April, John Durso, leader of Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW, shined a light on what he called “a group of unsung heroes who go to work and take care of the public every day.” Grocery and pharmacy workers were confronted with far more customers than usual once the pandemic

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President Civil Servic e Employees Assoc iation A longtime union official and activist, Mary Sullivan took over as president of one of New York’s main public employee unions when Danny Donohue retired in November.

In July, Sullivan declared her union’s support for equality

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her agency had fielded roughly 20,000 complaints related to workplace safety and the coronavirus, and was swamped by a flood of unemployment claims after Gov. Andrew Cuomo shut down all nonessential businesses for two months.

Reardon credits her agency with creating a streamlined application to process claims more quickly.

for African Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement, but not for defunding police.

She also urged a collective fight for federal aid to protect public services and the jobs provided by members.

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Commissioner State Department of Labor As state labor commissioner, Roberta Reardon has faced her share of pressure during the coronavirus pandemic. By mid-May,

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Chair New York City Cou nc il Civil Servic e and Labor Committee A former bus driver and president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056, New York City Council Member I. Daneek Miller made boosting pay for emergency medical workers even more of a mission after COVID-19 hit.

Miller’s colleagues backed his resolution in May calling on the city to close the wage gap between FDNY emergency medical service workers and firefighters, who earn much more.

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President Unite Here D. Taylor is leading Unite Here at a difficult time. At one point, 98% of the union’s more than 300,000 members – including airport, casino, food service and hotel workers

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“If you work in a hospital, you are exposed to the same kind of viru s as the doc tors,” Charles said.

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Carmen Charles represents nonmedical hospital staff.

– lost their jobs during the pandemic. Taylor, who joined the union after college and has served as its president since 2012, recently joined other labor leaders in calling for an extension of the $600 weekly federal unemployment benefits.

personal protective equipment or access to testing or medical care, she said of the situation.

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As business advocates slammed an expansion of the state’s prevailing wage, Jim Cahill was among the labor leaders defending the changes adopted in April and slated to take effect in 2022, calling it “a big win for the trades.” As president of the union representing more than 200,000 construction workers across the state, Cahill is among those advising the governor on New York’s reopening and response to the coronavirus.

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Executive Director National Domestic Workers Allianc e Ai-jen Poo says the coronavirus thrust vulnerable domestic workers further into crisis. Before COVID-19 hit, home care workers worked long and unpredictable hours, earning little and without paid time off, sick days or health care, she told Time magazine in May. Those who lost clients suffered financially, while those still working didn’t have

The president of the union representing City University of New York professors wants the university to detail how it plans to use $132 million of federal stimulus money, even as it axes workers. “Congress named job protection at colleges as one of the purposes of the stimulus bill,” Barbara Bowen said in July as the union sued the university over its decision to lay off 2,800 adjunct staff.

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President United University Professions As New York’s public colleges and universities readied to reopen campuses in recent weeks, the union representing staff and faculty held a rally calling for safety measures to combat the spread of COVID-19. Last month, United University Professions

President Frederick Kowal stressed the importance of following safety protocols, called for more resources on college campuses, including testing, contact tracing and mandatory masks, and urged schools to include remote learning in reopening plans.

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President Soc ial Servic e Employees Union Loc al 371 In his role as president of SSEU Local 371, Anthony Wells is strongly advocating for early retirement incentives for city workers, given the budget shortfall created by the pandemic. Wells is a member of the Municipal Labor Committee, which is also urging New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to consider proposals that could provide full benefits to thousands of workers without penalty, according to his union’s August newsletter.

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President Mu nic ipal Hospital Employees Union Loc al 420 Carmen Charles wanted members of Municipal Hospital Employees Union Local 420 – including employees of hospitals, jails

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and morgues – to have equal access to N95 masks early in the pandemic. “If you work in a hospital, you are exposed to the same kind of virus as the doctors and nurses,” Charles told The New York Times. She also pushed for death benefits for families of public employees who died of COVID-19.

representation of marginalized New Yorkers during this unprecedented pandemic,” she stated.

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President Correc tion O ffic ers’ Benevolent Assoc iation Elected in a landslide in late June, Benny Boscio faces major challenges as president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council have already agreed to close the prison on Rikers Island, and potential layoffs are also on the horizon due to budget cuts. Boscio’s election marked his union’s first since its former leader was convicted of taking bribes.

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President Sergeants Benevolent Assoc iation

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Ed Mullins, president of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association, makes no apologies for being outspoken.

As he explained to NY1 in July, “When you call the health commissioner a bitch, and

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people get offended by it, it draws attention to the issue.”

And yes, Mullins did just that on Twitter in a highly public spat over face masks for officers.

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Executive Director Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Edu c ation Tru st After the coronavirus hit, “an overwhelming amount of construction workers were simply terrified,” Patrick Purcell Jr. said. As he told the AFLCIO’s Union Strong Podcast in May, “one of the benefits of having a union is you can speak up.” The safety concerns remain, especially since construction was among the first industries to get back up and running.

Damon’s role has inc lu ded having to relay news of ac tor deaths from CO VID-19 .

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District Council 37 President Shaun D. Francois I is also president of the New York City Board of Education Employees Local 372, which represents almost 24,000 school crossing guards, lunch workers and health aides. In April, Francois visited schools to distribute personal protective equipment, since about 8,000 workers in DC 37’s school division still had to report to work during the pandemic to serve meals to students and staff members.

Executive Vice President SAG-AFTRA Reelected to a two-year term this past fall, Rebecca Damon’s role has recently included having to relay news of member deaths from COVID-19 this year. That includes actor Mark Blum, who acted in the Netflix series “You.” As Damon wrote in a letter to members at the end of March, “This destructive disease has torn a hole in our community and in our hearts.”

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Regional Director United Au to Workers Region 9 A Beverley Brakeman, who was elected director of the United Auto Workers Region 9A in 2018, is bulking up its membership. In July, Brakeman welcomed nearly 100 investigators and interpreters from the Legal Aid Society, who joined thousands of other legal-services workers represented by Region 9A. The union is planning on “bargaining a first contract to further improve the quality of

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President Commu nic ations Workers of Americ a Loc al 118 0 Gloria Middleton, the first female president of the Communications Workers of America Local 1180, led negotiations that had more than 8,100 administrative employees and supervisors in New York City government starting the year with higher wages. The union recently won the right to unionize hundreds of assistant directors at city hospitals and clinics, but said it isn’t being provided with a list of people in that position.

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Now leading the NYPD detectives union, Paul DiGiacomo took the helm after the union’s longtime head, Michael Palladino, retired in January. Defending police conduct during protests following the killing of George Floyd, DiGiacomo lashed out at those criticizing NYPD officers. In June, he said the union would sue citizens who allegedly assaulted its members, while bashing what he called inaction by the state attorney general.

From May through early July, members of Adam Krauthamer’s union took song requests from health care workers and patients at New York City hospitals and performed them from home to help celebrate patients successfully coming off ventilators. With many union members’ careers in limbo due to pandemic driven closures, Krauthamer told Time magazine the arts and entertainment industry is facing the “biggest existential crisis we’ve ever had.”

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President Bu ffalo Teac hers Federation First elected president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation in 1981, Philip Rumore is among the most recognizable figures in the area. The onetime door-to-door encyclopedia salesman called for a remote start to the school year and threatened legal action if educators weren’t comfortable with the district’s reopening plan. In August, the Buffalo Board of Education decided to start school with only remote classes.

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President New York State Cou rt O ffic ers Assoc iation Dennis Quirk, the longtime president of the New York State Court Officers Association, contends

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that his officers are not adequately protected from the coronavirus. In July, Quirk filed suit against the state’s chief judge, Janet DiFiore, and the court administration agency, claiming they failed to ensure courthouses were disinfected among other safety complaints. A month earlier, DiFiore ordered a probe into allegations of racism against Quirk, which he denies.

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Appointed to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s NonProfit and Social Services Sector Advisory Council to help restart the economy, Prabhu Sigamani spent the early weeks of the pandemic helping 6,000 food service workers across the state and country get financial help. The Restaurant Opportunities Center’s New York office received more than 10,000 applications for aid within two weeks of launching its donor-

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Executive Director Freelanc ers Union Rafael Espinal took the helm of the 500,000-member Freelancers Union in March, becoming the third person to lead the group since its founding in 1995. In 2011, Espinal became New York’s youngest elected official when he joined the Assembly at age 26. Elected to the New York City Council in 2013, he co-sponsored legislation passed in 2016 that protects freelancers from nonpayments and late payments.

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President Uniformed EMTs, Paramedic s & Fire Inspec tors FDNY Loc al 2 507 As president of Local 2507, Oren Barzilay led his slate to a resounding reelection win in August and spoke against possible layoffs among members. With some 400 emergency medical responder positions endangered as New York City contends with a multibillion-dollar shortfall, Barzilay is warning of delayed responses to emergencies.

He called for more personal protective equipment for members when 911 calls hit a record in March.

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President United Steelworkers Loc al 9 8 32 Several weeks ago, the first labor strike in 40 years at Xylem’s manufacturing plant in Auburn ended a little more than a week after it began.

United Steelworkers Local 9832 President Shawn Jakaub negotiated a new contract with the maker of water and sewage pumps that had 173 workers back on the job by early August. Two other workers covered in the deal work at a Xylem site in Seneca Falls.

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at a Pathmark store in Bay Shore. The local was among 14 unions condemning Stop & Shop’s July decision to stop “appreciation pay” to front-line workers during the pandemic, with the collective vowing to file charges with the National Labor Relations Board.

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In July, UFCW Local One filed a grievance over Tops Friendly Markets’ failure to enforce the New York state mask mandate on its premises. Local One President Frank DeRiso, who argued that grocery store workers deserve hero pay for working during the pandemic, said the union did its best to protect its members after the upstate grocery chain filed for bankruptcy and opted out of full payments to employees’ pension funds.

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President United Food & Commerc ial Workers Loc al 1500 Elected president of UFCW Local 1500 in December, Robert Newell’s decadeslong career with the local began in 1990 as a part-time clerk

Partner Bolton-St. Johns Ed Draves – a former deputy campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign with a reputation for political savvy – was instrumental in the effort to legalize medical marijuana in New York. Still, medical cannabis is expensive and scarce in the state, and there are renewed efforts to make recreational pot legal. The move could generate muchneeded funds for state coffers hit hard by the coronavirus.

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President and Principal Officer Teamsters Loc al 8 13 Growing up in Brooklyn’s Red Hook Houses in the 1980s, Sean Campbell became a

sanitation worker at age 19.

Now president of Teamsters Local 813, Campbell speaks for 1,200 commercial sanitation workers. Already hurting before the pandemic, the public health crisis made their jobs even harder, he says. The union recently partnered with Align NY to create a $30,000 relief fund to help the often overlooked essential workers.

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When the state economy was sputtering due to the coronavirus, construction throughout New York City continued, highlighting the role labor plays in protecting workers, said Joseph Geiger, executive secretary-treasurer of the New York City and Vicinity District Council of Carpenters since late 2013. As Geiger wrote in an August opinion piece, his 20,000-member union prioritized personal protection equipment for workers and offered financial help to those out of work.

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President and Business Agent Amalgamated Transit Union Loc al 1056

President New York City Cleric al Administrative Employees Loc al 154 9

Mark Henry started out as a bus operator with New York City Transit in 1981 and soon became a labor activist. Serving a second three-year term as the president and business agent of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056, Henry represents more than 1,700 bus operators, maintenance workers and cleaners in Queens. He spoke in favor of providing line-of-duty

As president of New York City Clerical Administrative Employees Local 1549, Eddie Rodriguez represents about 16,000 workers in nearly every city agency. He’s calling on state leaders to reverse budget cuts inflicted on the city and public hospitals, with the local’s members otherwise facing possible furloughs and layoffs. Rodriguez also served

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CWA Local 1180 OFFICERS Gloria Middleton President Gina Strickland 1st Vice President Gerald Brown 2nd Vice President Robin Blair-Batte Secretary-Treasurer Lourdes Acevedo Recording Secretary Members at Large Hilary Bloomfield Denise Gilliam Helen S. Jarrett Lisa Lloyd Debra Paylor Gregory Smith Lenora Smith Venus Williams Hazel O. Worley

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President and CEO EmblemHealth EmblemHealth is a go-to insurer for New York unions, with UFT and SEIU among its clients. Karen Ignagni, who helped to pass the Affordable Care Act as the leader of a health insurance lobbying group, took over at EmblemHealth in 2015. The nonprofit health plan for 3.1 million people in the New York area is covering tests for the coronavirus, waiving co-pays for related visits and offering home deliveries of 90-day supplies of medicines. as president of District Council 37 from 2011 to early 2019, when he lost his reelection bid.

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Director United Steelworkers Distric t 4 Del Vitale became director of United Steelworkers District 4 in July 2019, after serving as assistant to the director since 2015. Vitale expressed support for workers who spoke against racial discrimination and harassment at Tesla’s production facility in Buffalo. A lifelong union member, Vitale also put in a plug for organized labor, saying a union contract is the simplest way to prevent workplace discrimination.

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Business Manager International Union of O perating Engineers Loc al 30 Business manager and financial secretary of the

International Union of Operating Engineers Local based in Whitestone since 2014, William Lynn started with Local 30 as an apprentice at a waste-to-energy power plant in 1990. Members of the local work in the engineering rooms of well-known buildings in New York and Connecticut. Lynn became a shop steward before rising to dispatcher, business representative and recordingcorresponding secretary.

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Founding Attorney Arenson, Dittmar & Karban Steven Arenson represents those who believe they’ve been discriminated against, underpaid or harassed.

Among his accomplishments are securing large payouts for car wash workers who were denied overtime and paid below the minimum wage, an area of emphasis for the labor movement in recent years.

Arenson is now representing a woman who says she was routinely called the N-word while working at a Pret A Manger in New York City.

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President, Labor and Public Sector MagnaCare A division of Brighton Health Plan Solutions, MagnaCare serves organized labor and public sector clients in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The insurer, which now administers health plans for self-insurance labor clients as well, brought on Michelle Zettergren in 2017.

A veteran with over two decades of experience in the industry, Zettergren was behind MagnaCare’s recent partnership with BioReference Laboratories to offer COVID-19 antibody tests to members of labor unions.

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Executive Director CCA Metro

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General Manager and Vice President for Labor, Government and Special Accounts Empire Blu eCross Blu eShield Thomas Canty, who has done work in organized labor, state government and the health insurance industry, has been at Empire BlueCross BlueShield for nearly 20 years. There, he is in charge of administering plans for the area’s largest provider of health insurance for labor unions. Canty was previously assistant director of legislative research for the New York State AFL-CIO and a lawyer for labor unions.

As executive director of the Carpenter Contractor Alliance of Metropolitan New York, Paul Fernandes acts on behalf of some 20,000 union carpenters and 1,000 contractors. An expert on construction issues, he previously served as chief of staff at the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. A finance coordinator on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, he also worked in the White House on labor issues.

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Founding Dean CUNY Sc hool of Labor and Urban Stu dies When the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies held its graduation in June, Gregory

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President and Business Manager International Allianc e of Theatric al Stage Employees Loc al 52 Elected secretary-treasurer of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 52 in 1999, John Ford became president and business manager in 2004.

Chartered by IATSE in 1924, the 3,680-member local is one of the premier studio mechanics unions in the country. Ford advocated for additional jobless benefits to help those who had worked on live events before the pandemic shut down the industry.

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Coordinator Tompkins Cou nty Workers’ Center Pete Meyers and the Ithaca-based nonprofit he co-founded have always advocated for paid sick leave, but Meyers sounded the call with renewed vigor once the coronavirus outbreak began.

The center initiated research released in July that found 74% of Black workers in Tompkins County earned less than a living wage, compared to just a quarter of their white counterparts. Meyers previously worked at Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga Counties.

Center of Central New York, a Syracuse-area grassroots group with the mission of ensuring workplace and economic justice. The organization has called for legislation setting protocols for protecting essential workers while looking to stem further COVID-19 outbreaks on upstate farms. Born in California to a farmworker, Fuentes is a military veteran who was stationed at Fort Drum.

MagnaCare and Michelle Zettergren serve labor clients.

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President New York Stru c tu ral Steel Painting Contrac tors Assoc iation

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Executive Director La Colmena As executive director of La Colmena, an immigrant and day labor rights organization in Staten Island, Yesenia Mata could have closed the worker center when the coronavirus hit in March.

Instead, La Colmena shifted its mission, taking on tasks it had never done, such as distributing food to those in need. Relief recipients have included undocumented workers who don’t receive federal aid, a reality that makes their plight especially harsh, Mata has noted.

Kieran Ahern presides over a trade group that represents his own and six other structural steel painting companies.

Members of the New York Structural Steel Painting Contractors Association have been involved in high-profile projects including giving the Brooklyn Bridge a new coating system and applying steel coating to one of the city’s more recognizable landmarks – the 1964 World’s Fair Tent of Tomorrow – free of charge.

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Lead Organizer Workers’ Center of Central New York Rebecca Fuentes is the lead organizer at the Workers’

Smith has c ritic iz ed c u tbac ks imposed by the postmaster general.

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President New York Metro Area Postal Union Reelected to a third term in 2018 as president of the American Postal Workers Union’s New York Metro chapter, Jonathan Smith speaks for the 5,000 workers in the union’s largest local.

Smith’s demands for gloves and masks to protect workers from the coronavirus drew a loyal following, and he has in recent weeks criticized cutbacks imposed by the postmaster general and their potential impact on mail-in voting.

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Executive Director Worker Ju stic e Center of New York Executive director of the Worker Justice Center of New York since 2018, Lauren Deutsch oversees a nonprofit that offers legal help to immigrants and other disadvantaged workers in the Hudson Valley and upstate. In July, the center won $900,000 in unpaid wages for former employees of the Mt. Kisco Diner. It was also among those fighting for the farmworkers bill that took effect at the start of the year.

MAGNACARE; YESENIA MATA

Mantsios, the school’s founding dean, emphasized to graduates the importance of leadership and advocacy. A former community organizer, Mantsios has spent decades building programs in labor studies and writes on poverty, inequality, labor relations and education.

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SSNY mail process to 116 Pinehurst Avenue D34, New York, New York, 10033.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LAS MEDIA NY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/10/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 368 Stratford Road, Brooklyn, New York, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NY 21 MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 03/18/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 930 60th Street. Brooklyn, New York, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of PANORAMA BK, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/22/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 8725 16th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11214. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of RTSM GROUP LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/20/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 9110 Flatlands Ave, Brooklyn, New York, 11236. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of THE HATCH-CHICKEN & WRAPS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/25/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, New York, 11206. Any lawful purpose.

September 7, 2020

Notice of Qualification of F&B HH CO LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/10/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/16/20.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 730 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10019. Address to be maintained in DE: c/o Paracorp Incorporated, 2140 S Dupont Hwy., Camden, DE 19934. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, PO Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of

BY LIV HANDMADE LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/04/20.

Office location: Otsego SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 18 Elm St., Cherry Valley, New York, 13320. Any lawful purpose.

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1900 ACQUISITION LLC. Authority filed SSNY 1/03/20. Office: NY Co. LLC formed DE 3/7/19.

Exists in DE: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. SSNY designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail to: 1 State St., 32nd Fl., NY, NY 10004. Cert of Formation Filed: Secy. of State, Corporation Dept., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover DE 19901. General Purpose.

Notice of Formation of Little Hunt’s, LLC filed with SSNY on May 27, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2522 university ave apt 4h, Bronx, NY10468. Purpose : any lawful act of activity.

Notice of Qual. of INQUISITIONIS HOLDINGS LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 08/18/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 08/07/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 100 Avenue Of The Americas, 16th Floor, New York, New York, 10013. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SIG OLIVE TREES IMPORT & EXPORT LLC filed with SSNY on July 10, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 15 Mackay Place # 6K, Brooklyn, NY 11209.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1330299 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 212 FRONT ST NEW YORK, NY 10038.

NEW YORK COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Formation of ZANA NYC LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/21/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 35 Seacoast Terrace, 14j, Brooklyn, New York, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ZION POWERWASH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/21/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1020 East 38th Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11210. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qual. of 90 LEX LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/10/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in FL on 06/07/16. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 90 Lexington Ave., Apt. 9a, New York, New York, 10016. Arts. of Org. filed with FL DOS. R.A. Gray Building, 500 S Bronough St, Tallahassee, FL 32399. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ES ACUPUNCTURE PLLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/7/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to C/O Elham Salehin,2152 Ralph Ave, Suite 637 Brooklyn, NY, 11234. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 103 LOCKWOOD, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/15/20. Office location: Suffolk SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 860 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, New York, 10069. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SwaineTrain LLC filed with SSNY on April 10, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of 479E MANAGEMENT, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/21/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 479 East New York Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11225. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 430 GRAND AVENUE, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/08/05.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 425 Riverside Dr, #13d, New York, New York, 10025. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 654 FLATBUSH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/14/20 .Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 684 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11225. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1065 LIBERTY AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/20/13.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 65 Noye Lane, Woodmere, New York, 11598. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1066-1074 LIBERTY AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/20/13.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 65 Noye Lane, Woodmere, New York, 11598. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1089 LIBERTY AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/20/13.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 65 Noye Lane, Woodmere, New York, 11598. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1091 LIBERTY AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/20/13.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 65 Noye Lane, Woodmere, New York, 11598. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of POINTSFIVE LLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/07/19.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 220 East 42nd Street, 29th Fl.,New York, New York, 10017.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of TRU MEDICAL MANAGEMENT, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/04/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 774 Brodway, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11206. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 10 WATER ST LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/03/20. Office location: Greene SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 353 Main Street, Catskill, New York, 12414. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 26 N WARREN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/31/20. Office location: Greene SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 353 Main Street, Catskill, New York, 12414.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 122 W 73 L.P.. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/30/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY mail process to 485 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 10017.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 170 LACO, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/17/16.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2906 Shell Rd, Brooklyn, New York, 11224. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of 1095 LIBERTY AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/20/13.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 65 Noye Lane, Woodmere, New York, 11598. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1097-1101 LIBERTY AVE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/20/13.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 65 Noye Lane, Woodmere, New York, 11598. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of 1211 WESTERN AVE PROPERTY ASSOCIATES LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 04/19/19. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 04/12/2019. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 100 Wall Street Suite 2203 New York, New York, 10005. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 1964 AGENCY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/13/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 727 Jerome St., Apt. 2, Brooklyn, New York, 11207. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AAA PITKIN LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/04/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 109-19 Liverpool Street, S Ozone Park, New York, 11420.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of GB VERVE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/14/20. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 5024 Worthington Way, Fayetteville, New York, 13066. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of ADE LOGISTICS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/24/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 2665 Homecrest Ave, Suite 5b, Brooklyn, New York, 11235. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of AVIYAN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/19/20. Office location: Broome SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2409 Charleston Ave, Vestal, New York, 13850. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BAY RIDGE RADIATION MEDICINE PLLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/31/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 374 Stockholm St., Suite C-08, Brooklyn, New York, 11237. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CONSULTAGEN, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/16/20. Office location: Orange SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 1 Hamaspik Way, Monroe, New York, 10950. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of CXL E NTE R TAINME NT COMPANY LLCAuth. filed with SSNY on 11/21/20. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 09/12/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 11766 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Los Angeles, California, 90025. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of TEMANI ADAMS, PLLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 8/7/20. Office location: New York. PLLC formed in TX on 4/30/14. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 400, Harrison, NY, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with TX SOS.PO Box 13697, Austin, TX, 78711.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Thomas Title & Escrow, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/04/2020. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Wyoming (WY) on 05/02/2017. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Cogency Global INC, 122 E 42nd St., New York, NY 10168. WY addr. of LLC: 1814 Warren Ave, Cheyenne, WY 82001.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of WY, 2020 Carey Avenue, Ste. 700, Cheyenne, WY 82002. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 335 Woodbury LLC, Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/30/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to c/o Grassi & Co., 488 Madison Ave, Fl 21, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Chef Knife Soul Catering LLC , filed with SSNY on June 23, 2020. Office Location: Richmond County. United States Corporation Agents designated agency of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process United States Corporation Agents Inc at 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Qualification of TRUE RATE SERVICES LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/24/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/21/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of TYPT LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/03/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 07/30/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Tao Li, 650 Fifth Ave., Ste. 3301, NY, NY 10019. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of DE, Dept. of State, Div. of Corps., John Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Leading Factor, LLC filed with SSNY on 8/6/2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 450 37 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Signaturedfox, LLC filed with SSNY on July ,9, 2020 . Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 170-32 130th Ave 13E Jamaica , Ny, 11434. Purpose: Clothing company

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Notice of Formation of JRS GAMING LLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/25/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 254 Park Avenue South, Suite Ph-N, New York, New York, 10010.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of LI FAMILY GROUP LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/30/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1957 84th St., Brooklyn, New York, 11214. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of JJ&AD REALTY LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/28/20 .Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1376 Nostrand Avenue, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11226.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GRC SERVICES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/03/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 652 Huguenot Avenue, Staten Island, New York, 10312. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HAPPY VALLEY PLACE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/20/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 805 57th Street 4th Fl, Brooklyn, New York, 11220. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of IG CENTRAL, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/06/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 635 W 42nd Street, New York, New York, 10036. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Faye’s Couture Hair LLC filed with SSNY on June 8, 2020. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1075 Castleton Avenue apt 6E Staten Island, NY 10310.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of HFP OG LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/04/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Cohen & Cohen, LLP, 767 Third Ave., 31st Fl., NY, NY 10017. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

WEEKEND ALL THE TIME, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/05/2020. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 200 Ave A, Apt 4A, NY, NY 10009. Reg Agent: Nusrat S El-Waylly, 200 Ave A, Apt 4A, NY, NY 10009. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Notice of Formation of FRIENDSHIP SC PRESERVATION, L.P. Cert. of LP filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/03/20. Office location: NY County.

Princ. office of LP: 60 Columbus Circle, 19th Fl., NY, NY 10023. Latest date on which the LP may dissolve is 12/31/2119.

SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Name and addr. of each general partner are available from SSNY. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Bluestone Pictures LLc. Filed with SSNY: 3/5/20. Office: NY Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: 34 Third Ave, Ste 203 NY, NY 10003. Principal office: same address.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of SKW - B 33 WEST 9TH STREET PORTFOLIO, LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 07/03/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 05/28/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400, Harrison, New York, 10528. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of DAVID & BELL, LLC filed with SSNY on April 20, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to LLC: 125 Schroeders Avenue, 2D, Brooklyn, NY 11239. Purpose: any lawful act Notice of Formation of OverQuo Learning Services LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/24/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Jonathan Williams, 315 W. 55th St., Apt. 6A, NY, NY 10019.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of MountSophia LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/27/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 49 Bayview Dr., Huntington, NY 11743.

Purpose: any lawful act.

7864 Arkabutla Road Owner LLC. Arts.of Org. filed with the SSNY on 7/24/20. Office: New York County. The LLC is designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 280 West 12th Street, 3E, NY, NY 10014.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SHAINAYA & SAMARA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/27/07. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 146 West 29th St., 9th Fl., NY, NY 10001.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Name of LLC: H2M Propaint Date filed: 06/04/2020 Address to be included: 11 washington blvd Mount Vernon, ny 10550 The Dress Maven LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/6/2020. Cty: Richmond. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copy of process to the LLC: 4 Allen Court, Staten Isl., NY 10310. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of JERRY LOPEZ NEW YORK LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/20.

Location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 147W 40th Street, 2 floor New York, NY 10018 R/A: US Corp Agents, INC. 7014 13th Ave, #202, BK, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Park Watch, LLC filed with SSNY on August 11, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: Courtney Stern 2832 Weeks Avenue Oceanside,NY 11572 .Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of SkyeVest Management, LLC. Arts. of Org. f i l e d with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/31/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Richard P. Altieri, Carnelutti & Altieri Esposito Minoli PLLC, 551 Madison Ave., Ste. 450, NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization of Ornos ASC Holdings, LLC were filed with the Sec. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on August 19, 2020. Office Location: Richmond County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: 65 Broadway, #1400, NY, NY 100062503. Purpose: Any lawful business purpose.

PATALINO LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 8/14/2020. Off. Loc. : Hamilton Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, c/o Susan Patalino, P.O. Box 104, Lake Pleasant, NY 12108 . Purpose : Any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of RUBY LEE DRAMA STUDIO LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/24/20. Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2100 Tiebout Avenue, Apt 207, Bronx, New York, 10457. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MORVILLO, PLLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/06/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 90 Broad St., 23rd Floor, New York, New York, 10008.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of EMPIRE POLYMER HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/12/20. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 9841 Washingtonian Blvd Suite 300, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20878. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of MEASURE 8 VENTURES CANADA, LLC Auth. filed with SSNY on 10/22/19. Office location: New York. LLC formed in DE on 10/09/19. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to: 300 Park Avenue 13th Floor, New York, New York, 10022. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NELLY GROUP LLC. Arts .Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/05/20.

Office location: Bronx SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 600 W 239th St, Apt 1m, Bronx, New York, 10463.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of R & R EXCAVATING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/18/20. Office location: Montgomery SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 314 Polin Road, Fultonville, New York, 12072. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Give and Go, LLC filed with SSNY on 07/20/2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 505 St Marks Ave, Apt. 6G, Broklyn, NY 11238. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of DAMILL FAIR CASH SOLUTIONS LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/04/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 419 Blake Ave, Brooklyn, New York, 11212. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GEORGE FERZLI MD PLLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/17/20.

Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY mail process to 135 East 74th Street, New York, New York, 10021.Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SAMURAI WAGYU BEEF FARMS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/04/20. Office location: Onondaga SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 3312 Henneberry Road, Jamesville, New York, 13078. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Form. of MY HEMP DEPOT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/21/20. Office location: Madison.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 2071 Elm Street, New Woodstock, New York, 13122. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HEADLINES BY STEPHEN LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 05/05/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 979 Lenox Rd., Brooklyn, New York, 11212. Any lawful purpose.

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TO: Unknown Distributees Attorney General of the State of New York The RSP Companies NYC Human Resources Administration/DSS and to the heirs at law, next of kin and distributees of John Davis, a/k/a John B. Davis, a/k/a John Benjamin Davis, the decedent herein, if living and if any of them be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner herein; being the persons interested as creditors, legatees, devisees, beneficiaries, distributees, or otherwise in the estate of John Davis, a/k/a John B. Davis, a/k/a John Benjamin Davis, deceased, who at the time of his death was a resident of 301 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019; A petition having been duly filed by the Public Administrator of the County of New York, who maintains an office at 31 Chambers Street, Room 311, New York, New York 10007.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the New York County Surrogate’s Court at 31 Chambers Street, New York, New York, on September 30, 2020, at 9:30 A.M., why the following relief stated in the account of proceedings, a copy of the summary statement thereof being attached hereto, of the Public Administrator of the County of New York as administrator of goods, chattel and credits of said deceased, should not be granted; (i) that her account be judicially settled; (ii) that a hearing be held to determine the identity of decedent’s distributees at which time proof pursuant to SCPA §2225 may be presented, or in the alternative, that the balance of the funds in this estate be deposited with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York for the benefit of the decedent’s unknown distributees; (iii) that the Surrogate approve the reasonable amount of compensation as reported in Schedules C and C-1 of the account of proceedings to the attorney for the petitioner for legal services rendered to the petitioner herein; (iv) that the claim of The RSP Companies for unpaid apartment rental expenses for the period covering May 2018 through August 2018 in the amount of $5,681.49 and reimbursement for payment of apartment cleanout in the amount of $2,500.00 be allowed and paid; (v) that the claim of NYC Human Resources Administration/DSS for medical assistance rendered in the form of Medicaid in the amount of $5,099.97 be allowed and paid; (vi) that the persons above mentioned and all necessary and proper persons be cited to show cause why such relief should not be granted; (vii) that an order be granted pursuant to SCPA §307 where required or directed; and (viii) for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.

• To Persons serving this Citation: The citation is to be served in accordance with the court’s order directing alternative service of process.

• To all Parties: No in-person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed New York County Surrogate’s Court Notice to Cited Parties.

Dated, Attested and Sealed. August 17, 2020 (Seal) Hon. Rita Mella, Surrogate. Diana Sanabria, Chief Clerk.

Schram Graber & Opell P.C. Counsel to the Public Administrator, New York County 11 Park Place, Suite 1008 New York, New York 10007 (212) 896-3310 Note: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have the right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

SURROGATE’S COURT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK 31 CHAMBERS STREET NEW YORK, NY 10007 (646) 386-5800 NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES You have been served with a citation for a matter that is scheduled to be heard at a New York County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised that pursuant to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Orders and Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks’ Administrative Orders now in effect in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this court is serving the public and court users primarily through virtual or electronic appearances; in-person appearances are limited at this time.

The citation that you have received contains a return date. Please do not appear in the courthouse on that date. The following choices are available to you: - If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the court or do anything else.

- If you do object to the relief sought on the citation, you or your lawyer must send a document to the court signed by you or your lawyer indicating that: 1. You object to the relief or you are requesting discovery; OR 2. You are requesting the opportunity to appear in person or by using Skype for Business or by telephone conference; OR 3. You are requesting an adjournment to consult with or retain counsel.

Your written response must be received by the court three (3) business days before the return date and must include either an email address or telephone number, or both, where you or your lawyer can be reached during business hours. Your communication to the court may be sent by email to: Accounting_General@nycourts.gov or by mail addressed to the Accounting Department of this court at the address listed above. The attorney for the petitioner must be copied in your communication.

If your written communication to the court indicates that you would like to proceed as described in choice number 1 above, your case may be referred to a court attorney-referee for a conference. The case will be adjourned to a future date, if you request the opportunity to appear in person or by electronic means or to consult or retain counsel (choices number 2 and 3).

If you do not contact the court by the date on the citation, the record will reflect that you do not object to the relief requested.

If an attorney plans to appear on your behalf, he or she must file a Notice of Appearance. This Notice may be filed by mail addressed to the Accounting Department of this court at the address listed above or through the e-filing system (NYSCEF), at www.nycourts.gov/efile.

If you have questions about responding to the citation, you may contact the Accounting Department at Accounting_General@nycourts.gov. Please note that court staff are prohibited from giving legal advice but they are available to answer any question about procedure.

The Accounting Department of the New York County Surrogate’s CourtCOUNTY, 111 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BLVD., WHITE PLAINS, NY 10601 TEL: (914) 8245337.

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Notice of Auction

Notice of Auction

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Access Self Storage of Long Island City located at 29-00 Review Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on September 18, 2020 and end on September 29, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts:

Notice of Auction Sale is herein given that Citiwide Self Storage located at 45-55 Pearson Street, L o n g Island City, N.Y. 11101 will take place on WWW.STORAGETREASURES.COM Sale by competitive bidding starting on September 28, 2020 and end on October 9, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. to satisfy unpaid rent and charges on the following accounts:

Contents of rooms generally contain misc. #139-George Anderson; 10 boxes, 16 plastic totes, 4 rolling file cabinets, 1 small refrigerator. #152-Alexus Calderon; 34+ bags, rug, bedframe and small box#238-Vincenzo Marchi; 9 boxes, 4 plastic totes, end table, computer desk, wooden chair#1702-Quinsessa Harrison; Bags, boxes, totes, 2 crates with vinyl records#2217-Anton Makarov; 5 large boxes, queen mattress with frame, dinner ware set, toaster, couch, and round table with 4 chairs #2606-Tara Kulukundis; round table, long square table, 1 glass table, 8 chairs, and a large ship model inside a large display box. #2907-Martin Randall; 2 large boxes, 3 small boxes, 4 chair pads, bookshelf, 2 small end tables, printer, lamp. #3709-Jieni Zhang; 3 suitcases, 6 crates, 7+boxes, 4 black bags, 2 folding beds. #4401-Leonard Tester; 25+ boxes, and duffle bag

#10P08 – Courtyard By Marriot 5th Ave: 1 mop, 1 broom, 1 dust pan, several mattresses in different sizes, 1 armchair, several rugs, several file boxes, 1 garbage can, several plastic bins with unknown contents. #10P33 – Theresa Connolly: 1 king size mattress, 2 twin box springs, 2 metal bed frames, 1 tv, 1 nightstand. #2S15 – Magnificent Obsessions Ltd: 1 wooden dresser, 2 scaffold towers, several light fixtures, several crates, tools, packing materials, 2 chairs. #3L28 – Magdalena Chylicka: several boxes and bags. #4H09 – Magdalena Chylicka: several boxes and bags. #4H12 – Magdalena Chylicka: several boxes and bags. #4J27 – Stephanie Thompson: 9 boxes of misc. items. #4R08 – Alexis Julio: suitcase, plastic bag, duffle bag, sewing machine. #5B12 – Alfredo Villamar: clothes, 50+ boxes, books, bags, suitcases. #5D10 – Samuel Valentin: 2 chairs, 2 light fixtures, several boxes, 1 suitcase. #5E18 – Robert J Groen: 11 file boxes, 4 plastic bins, 2 handbags, 1 black bag, 1 small luggage. #5J06 – Ethan Hunt: 1 shopping cart, 5 plastic bins, 1 bag with winter clothes, several bags. #5J15 – Yang Lou: locker unit. #5J18 – Jason M Matthews: locker unit. #5T01 – Alfredo Villamar: 20 boxes, 60 bags, 1 chair, books. #5T20 – Alfredo Villamar: several bags/boxes, shoe boxes, misc. clothes, 1 luggage bag, 1 chair. #6C07 – Nickian Home Staging: several paintings, several canvasses, 3 tables, 1 chair, 3 picture frames, shelf with painting materials. #6P12-C – Robert F Ferreira: 1 garbage bag. #6P45 – Nicholas Bergmann: 30+ boxes with unknown contents, 2 rattan chairs #6Q47 – Nickian Home Staging: several shelves with throw pillows and misc. decorative items, numerous rugs, several boxes. #6R49 – Edward Satterwhite: several bags of unknown items, 2 bike frames, 1 plastic bin, 1 kite. #6R62 – Nickian Home Staging: 6 metal shelves, several Ikea Boxes, several throw pillows, several bags of throw pillows. #7C22 – Edward Satterwhite: stereo system, record player, shredder, umbrella, exercise weights and misc. items. #7P42 – Edward Satterwhite: bicycle wheels, basketball, shoes, boxes and misc. items. #9A18 – Alfonso Arriaga: several boxes, 4 extension cords, 1 tool kit, 2 jackets, 1 computer keyboard, 1 printer, 1 computer tower, several plastic bags. #B101 – Media Products, INC: several TV’s, several stereos, several radio, light fixtures and old monitors.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

Notice of Qual. of 5800 HWY 119 LLC. Auth. filed with SSNY on 08/12/20.

Office location: Putnam.

LLC formed in DE on 06/03/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 11 Timberline Ct, Putnam Valley, New York, 10579. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of formation of DeCristoforo Football, LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 8/17/2020. Off. Loc.: Richmond Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 29 Hartford Ave, Staten Island, NY 10310.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity

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716 Broadway LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 7-15-20. Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC for service of process.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to 716 Broadway LLC, 716 Broadway, Apt. 6, NY, NY 10003. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

LEGALNOTICES@ CITYANDSTATENY.COM Notice of Formation of Y&R REALTY MANAGEMENT LLC.Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/05/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 99 Madison Ave Fl 601, New York, New York, 10016.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 164 BINGHAMTON CHICKEN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/22/19. Office location: Broome SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 53 Knightsbridge Road, Suite 220, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854.

Any lawful purpose.

The contents of each unit will be sold as a lot and all items must be removed from the premises within 72 hours. Owners may redeem their goods by paying all rent and charges due at any time before the sale. All sales are held “with reserve”. Owner reserves the right to cancel sale at any time.

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Notice of Formation of SO NOHO LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/15/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Schwartz Levine PLLC, 150 Broadway, Ste. 1703, NY, NY 10038. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of AB COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DEBT - B2 S.A.R.L. Auth. filed with SSNY on 08/19/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in LU on 03/09/15. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1345 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, New York, 10105.

Arts. of Org. filed with LU SOS. Registre de Commerce et des Societes, 14 rue Erasme, L-1468 Luxembourg.. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Dazzling K Jewelry LLC l. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of state of NY (SSNY) on 06/10/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to 5550 Netherland Ave, #2F BX, NY 10471. R/A: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave, #202, BK, NY 11228.

Purpose any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of D Precision Mechanical LLC filed with SSNY on September 11, 2018. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 1193 E 56th Street, Brooklyn, NY. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of J&Y CHARLTON LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 04/18/17.Office location:New York SSNY rocess to 70 Charlton Street, Unit 2c, New York, New York, 10014.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DOLCE VENTURES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 06/09/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 828 Belmont Ave., Apt. 1r, Brooklyn, New York, 11208. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of DOSE OF HEALTH LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/31/20.

Office location: Kings SSNY desg. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 1205 Atlantic Avenue, P.O.Box 428, Brooklyn, New York, 11216. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of HERITAGE FUNERAL HOME LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/25/20.Office location: Richmond SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 180 Mansion Ave., Staten Island, New York, 10308. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qual. of RICHBROOK ADVISORS, LP. Auth. filed with SSNY on 06/30/20. Office location: New York.

LLC formed in DE on 06/24/20. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to: 1995 Broadway, 8th Floor New York, New York, 10023. Arts. of Org. filed with DE SOS. Townsend Bldg. Dover, DE 19901.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WEINBERGER FAMILY HOLDING, LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/28/20.Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 247 Seeley St., Brooklyn, New York, 11218. Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Form. of 830 ELMIRA CHICKEN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 02/22/19. Office location: Chemung.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 53 Knightsbridge Road, Suite 220, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of BOGARD NY LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with SSNY on 08/28/20. Office location: Kings SSNY desg.

As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served SSNY mail process to 3121 36th Ave SE, Norman, Oklahoma, 73026. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of CHILLVIN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 07/17/20.Office location:New York SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.SSNY mail process to 444 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, New York, 10022.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Qualification of Expensify Payments LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/07/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/17/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Incorporating Services, Ltd., 3500 South DuPont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901, also the address to be maintained in DE. Arts of Org. filed with Jeffrey W. Bullock, Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Siwanoy Wellness Three, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with (SSNY) on 9/2/20.

Off. Loc.: Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom proc. may be served & shall mail to 7 Columbus Ave., POB 64, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Reg. agent Marks & Klein, LLP, 63 Riverside Ave., Red Bank, NJ 07701, is agent upon whom proc. may be served. Purp.: Any lawful

Notice of Formation of Siwanoy Wellness Two, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with (SSNY) on 9/2/20.

Off. Loc.: Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom proc. may be served & shall mail to 7 Columbus Ave., POB 64, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Reg. agent Marks & Klein, LLP, 63 Riverside Ave., Red Bank, NJ 07701, is agent upon whom proc. may be served. Purp.: Any lawful

Notice of Formation of Motivating & Transforming Lives LLC, LLC filed with SSNY on July 20, 2020. Office: NY County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to LLC: 624 East 17th Street, Apt 1L, Brooklyn, NY 11226. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Siwanoy Wellness One, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with (SSNY) on 9/2/20.

Off. Loc.: Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom proc. may be served & shall mail to 7 Columbus Ave., POB 64, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Reg. agent Marks & Klein, LLP, 63 Riverside Ave., Red Bank, NJ 07701, is agent upon whom proc. may be served. Purp.: Any lawful Notice of Formation of Siwanoy Operations, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with (SSNY) on 9/2/20.

Off. Loc.: Westchester Co. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom proc. may be served & shall mail to 7 Columbus Ave., POB 64, Tuckahoe, NY 10707. Reg. agent Marks & Klein, LLP, 63 Riverside Ave., Red Bank, NJ 07701, is agent upon whom proc. may be served. Purp.: Any lawful Notice of Formation of Best Way Products LLC filed with SSNY on August 14, 2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served: 2167 Cruger Avenue, Bronx, NY 10462. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Ave #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: E-commerce, any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of Artemis Learning Solutions, LLC filed with SSNY on August 17, 2020. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 2050 East 18th Street, A2, Brooklyn, NY 11229.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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BILL DE BLASIO If you put off making a decision long enough … it gets made for you! But even if striking a deal with the United Federation of Teachers is a win in the short term, it’s an embarrassment for City Hall overall, which had all summer to make plans and backup plans. Why couldn’t he? The mayor obviously wasn’t busy working with his transportation advisory council, which took the rare path of complaining that the man who appointed them was ignoring them.

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MICHAEL MULGREW Most of us understand that you can’t have school without teachers, but it took some remedial lessons for Mayor Bill de Blasio to finally absorb that concept – which he did, capitulating to powerful United Federation of Teachers boss Michael Mulgrew’s threats of a strike if schools were to reopen in person this week. Mulgrew says that unless the teachers union’s demand of a mandatory testing program is met by then, another strike threat could be on the horizon.

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We honor and congratulate James Cahill, President of the NYS Building & Construction Trades Council on being selected as one of City & State NY’s 100 Most Powerful People in the Labor Community!

Jim has been serving as President of the NYS Building Trades since 2012, but his commitment to the labor movement began decades ago.

We’re proud to call him one of our own, and we know the fruits of his labor will endure for years to come.

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Al Catalano Secretary-Treasurer

James Mahoney, Iron Workers

Robert Reap, Asbestos Workers & Insulators

Dante Dano, Jr., Sheet Metal Workers

John Murphy, Plumbers & Steamfitters

Steven Ludwigson, Boilermakers

Dan McGraw, Operating Engineers

Jerry Sullivan, Bricklayers

Sam Fratto, Electrical Workers

Sam Fresina, Laborers

Michael Rossi, Roofers

Tom Gesualdi, Teamsters

Don Winkle, Elevator Workers

Bill Banfield, Carpenters

Gino Castignoli, Plasterers & Cement Masons

Joe Azzopardi, Painters

We’re proud to have Tom Canty represent Empire as one of the Labor Power 100.

Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees.

“Through our long-standing relationships with New York’s labor community, we strive to have an impact on the total health and wellbeing of all their members.”

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