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Elected officials, including Bronx/Queens Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are now backing the workers’ strike at the Hunts Point Produce Market, where employees have entered day four of a strike over wages.
*Ocasio Cortez Twitter
*Riley Roberts
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shut down anti-LGBT+ Trump supporter Ted Cruz, telling him he “almost had her murdered” three weeks ago during the Capitol riots. Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on. All four congresswomen known as the Squad - Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts - have won. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday accused Sen. Ted Cruz of ’trying to get me killed’ during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and called for his resignation from the. Jan 29, 2021 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Ted Cruz of « trying to get me killed » during the Jan. 6 insurrection and called for his resignation after the Senator appeared to agree with her regarding the. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 28, 2021. At least one participant in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol reportedly made violent threats against Ocasio-Cortez specifically.
Some 1,400 employees represented by the Teamsters Local 202 union, comprised of warehouse workers and drivers at the gargantuan industrial site in the Bronx, help move around 300,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables daily. The Hunts Point Produce Market is a cooperative of 30 merchants who purchase produce from farms and importers and distributes the goods to grocers, restaurants, and more. All told, they handle 60% of the city’s produce.
On January 17th, members negotiating for a $1 hourly increase went on strike following a stalemate during negotiations with market owners. And with every day that passes, the effects of reduced output from the market will be felt by supermarkets and restaurants that depend on them.
’If you notice that aisles of produce are little low and you see the stuff starting to turn a little bit, you know that’s when you’re gonna notice,’ Raymond Rivera, a driver and union member, said.
’When you’re standing on this line, you’re not just asking for $1, you are asking for transformational change for your lives, over the lives of every food worker across this country, for kids or food workers across the country,’ Ocasio-Cortez said, flanked by New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and state Assemblymember Amanda Septimo on a frigid Wednesday night outside the enormous, city-owned property. ’Because there’s a lot of things upside down right now in our economy. And one of those things that are upside down [...] is the fact that a person who is helping get the food to your table cannot feed their own kid. That’s upside down.’
Negotiations stopped nearly two weeks ago after members had pushed for a $1 increase plus greater health coverage. Owners returned to the table with a 32 cents per hour wage increase, and 60 cents going towards health coverage.
Meanwhile Hunts Point workers continue their strike: https://t.co/CFkpbIL32e— Rebeca Ibarra (@RebeIbarraC) January 21, 2021
On Wednesday night, dozens of workers stood outside their workplace in solidarity, huddled around bonfires as music played and wearing protest signs, with a giant inflatable rat looming nearby. Employees spent the night chatting among themselves, outraged over the company’s lack of progress over the union.
For Francisco Flores, a 26-year employee at the site, the counter-offer is a slap in the face for many workers who stepped up during the COVID-19 pandemic, which did not halt operations at the site.
’We’ve had our contract disputes with them [...] it’s been different this year with the pandemic and actually seeing and knowing some of your friends that you’ve worked with in here for 28 years die, and then have friends of yours, not coming to work because they’re home quarantined, sick, makes a big difference,’ Flores told Gothamist/WNYC. ’And then we’re here every day during the pandemic, we try not to miss as much as we can, because we need the money. And we get no kind of thank you.’
Flores, a married father of three kids living in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, said throughout his time working at the company he’s been living paycheck to paycheck. He can’t even save money. With every day that workers are on strike their pay is docked.
’I’ve even argued with my father from time to time. He tells me, ’You got to try to save money.’ I’m like, ’Dad, I can’t. I don’t know how you did it,’ Flores recalled. ’But in this economy and the way things are going, they don’t give you room. And I’m like, even though we might get a little bit of a raise, everything else goes back up. I’ve been to the supermarket with $100, and I used to come out with four or five, six bags. Now I come out with two or three.’
BREAKING: 21 train cars of merchandise turned back at Hunts Point Market strike line. “The locomotive engineer said, ‘we’re @Teamsters too,’ turned the freight car around, and headed back to Ohio.”UNION SOLIDARITY ✊
Elected officials, including Bronx/Queens Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are now backing the workers’ strike at the Hunts Point Produce Market, where employees have entered day four of a strike over wages.
*Ocasio Cortez Twitter
*Riley Roberts
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shut down anti-LGBT+ Trump supporter Ted Cruz, telling him he “almost had her murdered” three weeks ago during the Capitol riots. Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on. All four congresswomen known as the Squad - Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts - have won. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday accused Sen. Ted Cruz of ’trying to get me killed’ during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and called for his resignation from the. Jan 29, 2021 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Ted Cruz of « trying to get me killed » during the Jan. 6 insurrection and called for his resignation after the Senator appeared to agree with her regarding the. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 28, 2021. At least one participant in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol reportedly made violent threats against Ocasio-Cortez specifically.
Some 1,400 employees represented by the Teamsters Local 202 union, comprised of warehouse workers and drivers at the gargantuan industrial site in the Bronx, help move around 300,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables daily. The Hunts Point Produce Market is a cooperative of 30 merchants who purchase produce from farms and importers and distributes the goods to grocers, restaurants, and more. All told, they handle 60% of the city’s produce.
On January 17th, members negotiating for a $1 hourly increase went on strike following a stalemate during negotiations with market owners. And with every day that passes, the effects of reduced output from the market will be felt by supermarkets and restaurants that depend on them.
’If you notice that aisles of produce are little low and you see the stuff starting to turn a little bit, you know that’s when you’re gonna notice,’ Raymond Rivera, a driver and union member, said.
’When you’re standing on this line, you’re not just asking for $1, you are asking for transformational change for your lives, over the lives of every food worker across this country, for kids or food workers across the country,’ Ocasio-Cortez said, flanked by New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and state Assemblymember Amanda Septimo on a frigid Wednesday night outside the enormous, city-owned property. ’Because there’s a lot of things upside down right now in our economy. And one of those things that are upside down [...] is the fact that a person who is helping get the food to your table cannot feed their own kid. That’s upside down.’
Negotiations stopped nearly two weeks ago after members had pushed for a $1 increase plus greater health coverage. Owners returned to the table with a 32 cents per hour wage increase, and 60 cents going towards health coverage.
Meanwhile Hunts Point workers continue their strike: https://t.co/CFkpbIL32e— Rebeca Ibarra (@RebeIbarraC) January 21, 2021
On Wednesday night, dozens of workers stood outside their workplace in solidarity, huddled around bonfires as music played and wearing protest signs, with a giant inflatable rat looming nearby. Employees spent the night chatting among themselves, outraged over the company’s lack of progress over the union.
For Francisco Flores, a 26-year employee at the site, the counter-offer is a slap in the face for many workers who stepped up during the COVID-19 pandemic, which did not halt operations at the site.
’We’ve had our contract disputes with them [...] it’s been different this year with the pandemic and actually seeing and knowing some of your friends that you’ve worked with in here for 28 years die, and then have friends of yours, not coming to work because they’re home quarantined, sick, makes a big difference,’ Flores told Gothamist/WNYC. ’And then we’re here every day during the pandemic, we try not to miss as much as we can, because we need the money. And we get no kind of thank you.’
Flores, a married father of three kids living in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, said throughout his time working at the company he’s been living paycheck to paycheck. He can’t even save money. With every day that workers are on strike their pay is docked.
’I’ve even argued with my father from time to time. He tells me, ’You got to try to save money.’ I’m like, ’Dad, I can’t. I don’t know how you did it,’ Flores recalled. ’But in this economy and the way things are going, they don’t give you room. And I’m like, even though we might get a little bit of a raise, everything else goes back up. I’ve been to the supermarket with $100, and I used to come out with four or five, six bags. Now I come out with two or three.’
BREAKING: 21 train cars of merchandise turned back at Hunts Point Market strike line. “The locomotive engineer said, ‘we’re @Teamsters too,’ turned the freight car around, and headed back to Ohio.”UNION SOLIDARITY ✊
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