The NY Supreme Court just ruled to uphold Kingston's rent reduction, the first in the country.

For context on the housing crisis in this Hudson Valley city, and how tenants fought for and won a rent reduction, check out this piece from The Guardian:

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Personal news: I'm starting a new role as a senior editor / writer at Carnegie Corporation of New York and stepping back from freelance reporting. I'm so proud of my work at Guardian US Fast Company Curbed @TheNation. Grateful to editors who made it possible and the readers who have stuck with me

'The new rules guarantee delivery workers nearly $30 an hour of 'trip time.' So I stop at red lights, yield to pedestrians, and though I end up arriving a couple minutes late, I feel surprisingly relaxed. My customer seems pleased, too.'

Required reading. twitter.com/wilfredchan/st…

Exploitation is the thread that runs through all of these services. It’s their business model.

Delivery work is one of the deadliest jobs in New York City.

Our city's 65,000+ delivery workers need a fair wage — without interference by big tech companies.

Spoke with Wilfred Chan at the Guardian about how Uber and Doordash are retaliating against Deliveristas for organizing and winning a min wage in NYC Los Deliveristas Unidos theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d…

📰 A must read piece at the The Guardian by Wilfred Chan.

“These companies have no intention of making this job a good job. These companies have become greedier and greedier, and now they’re shifting around their systems to exploit workers.” - Ligia Guallpa
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Great work from Wilfred here digging in how nasty delivery companies have got after being forced to - gasp! - pay a minimum wage for their workers, including hiding the place for customers to tip, something that makes absolutely no sense other than to punish workers

My final piece for the year - in which I do a DoorDash delivery to experience NYC's new minimum wage law, and how the tech companies are already trying to undermine it: theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d…

‘They’re playing dirty’: delivery apps make it harder to tip after New York minimum wage law theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d…

A protest against a top Israel-born chef was called antisemitic. Staff tell a different story theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d…

Kudos to Wilfred Chan for getting the real story behind the misleading headlines.

Various statements from media outlets and public officials, including a White House spokesperson, completely misrepresented what happened in Philly to manufacturer a narrative

A more nuanced reflection on the so-called “anti-Semitic” protest against a restauranteur in Philly…
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Deep dive on the Goldie protest in Phila. We are living in complicated times… theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d…

Our attorney Justin Sadowsky says the firings of Goldie workers are the first time he’s heard of restaurant workers allegedly fired for supporting #Palestine
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#Gaza Wilfred Chan Guardian US

A protest against a top Israel-born chef was called antisemitic. Staff tell a different story theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d…