New Yorkers for a Fair Economy
Holding Abusive Corporations Accountable
ABOUT
New Yorkers for a Fair Economy (NYFE) is a coalition of labor organizations, small businesses, and immigrant and community organizations uniting to safeguard our communities from the abusive practices of big corporations to achieve dignity for workers and an economy that works for all New Yorkers. This coalition includes the frontline workers who care and provide for our communities, the small businesses that provide essential services that we need, and the community organizations that protect the environment and the dignity of Black, brown, immigrant and gender-oppressed communities that make up our diverse state.
SUCCESSES
The Warehouse Worker Protection Act (WWPA) protects New York State workers doing manual warehouse work, including at warehouses operated by courier and delivery services like Amazon, from the hazards of abusive production quotas. In the absence of enforceable standards on warehouse production quotas, New York warehouse workers have experienced high rates of preventable injuries, like sprains, muscle strains, and tendinitis. By directly addressing abusive quota systems and their impact on worker health and safety, WWPA will make New York a leader in warehouse worker protections.
Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Act (WWIRA) will hold employers like Amazon accountable for workplace safety and design warehouses to protect workers first. Through better job design, safety standards, training, and enforcement, WWIRA will keep workers safe on the job and make warehouse work sustainable.
CURRENT CAMPAIGNS
Check the Power of Mega-Corporations with the 21st Century Antitrust Act. Mega-corporations like Amazon are using their outsized power to monopolize the markets, bury their competition, hurt small businesses, and drive prices up for consumers. We need to fight for a healthy economy that works for everyone, not just the Amazons of the world. We’re fighting for the 21st Century Antitrust Act to combat price gouging, monopoly power, and worker exploitation.
Pass Intro 1330 to protect workers and communities from dangerous warehouse and truck pollution. The e-commerce boom of the last decade produced an unprecedented number of “last-mile” distribution centers, facilities that deliver goods to their final destination. Intro 1330 has been introduced in New York City requiring the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to reduce emissions from indirect sources, such as last mile warehouses. Indirect sources produce harms from not just one source but many — traffic, noise pollution, and emissions from the facilities themselves.
COALITION PARTNERS
Amazon Labor Union, American Economic Liberties Project, Jobs with Justice, For the Many, Make the Road NY, New York Communities for Change, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, National Employment Law Project, Retail Wholesale Department Store Union, Teamsters
HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?
For more information about this coalition, contact Lucas Shapiro at lucas@alignny.org.