A contentious Metropolis Council push to ban 24-hour shifts for house well being aides is being propped up by radical left-wing teams who’ve shared pro-communist sentiments and vile anti-Israel rhetoric on-line, The Put up has realized.
Far-left Chinatown teams just like the “The New York Younger Communist League” and “Youth In opposition to Displacement” have campaigned, picketed and petitioned exterior of Metropolis Corridor in assist of Decrease Manhattan Councilman Chris Marte’s “No Extra 24” invoice.
The invoice would repeal the 24-hour workday for the estimated 130,000 house care staff throughout the Large Apple by requiring standards like offering a one-week discover and consent from the worker to work longer than 12 hours.
Youth In opposition to Displacement, a gaggle that was initially fashioned to combat displacement inside Chinatown, described the Oct. 7 terrorist assault on Israeli civilians as “chickens coming house to roost” in a 2023 open letter printed to Medium.
The group even beforehand promoted a “F–okay the Fourth” City Corridor” in 2025 that complained in regards to the US being a “settler colony” and urging attendees to withstand “US fascism and imperialism.”
The New York Communist League payments itself as a “coaching floor” for younger folks to transform the US right into a communist society and has shared optimistic messages about communist dictators like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and the present Communist Social gathering led authorities in China.
“Joseph Stalin might have departed, however he left wonderful recommendation on the duty of party-building and the true objective of a employee’s newspaper as a collective organizer,” the New York Younger Communist League beforehand posted on X.
“Mao mentioned {that a} revolutionary should have a lot of persistence. It takes time and generally the contradiction to capitalism should turn out to be starker for folks to see,” one other submit reads.
One other submit claimed that it “Virtually looks like the issues about which the media have been attempting for years to make us hate and concern China are literally bulls–t.”
Though the invoice has languished within the council the previous few years, Metropolis Council Speaker Julie Menin has mentioned the it might be dropped at a vote this session as early as April.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani supported ending 24-hour shifts whereas serving within the state Meeting however has not dedicated to signing the invoice as Hizzoner.
The invoice initially promised to utterly ban the 24-hour work week however modified the invoice so as to add the one-week discover and consent coverage after the mayor’s workplace intervened, in keeping with DocumentedNY.
Activist teams supporting the laws mentioned that they’d undertake a starvation strike to push for a vote – a thinly veiled swipe towards Hizzoner, who went on a 15-day starvation strike with taxi drivers to rally towards for debt forgiveness.
The outlet additionally reported that Gov. Kathy Hochul has pressured the council to kill the invoice as a result of it may ship Medicaid prices hovering.
Reps for the governor didn’t reply to requests for remark however Menin poured chilly water on the report at an unrelated Thursday press convention.
“The invoice had gone beneath quite a lot of completely different adjustments,” she mentioned, when requested in regards to the governor’s involvement. “We’ve been working with Councilmember Marte and different stakeholders and extra adjustments have been made – so we sit up for sharing a brand new model of the invoice with the governor’s workplace.”
The 2 activist teams are simply a number of the newest radical organizations getting concerned with NYC politics, after former Mayor Invoice de Blasio jetsetting to Columbia with the alleged Chinese language Neighborhood Social gathering-linked lefty group Code Pink.
Reps for the mayor and Councilman Chris Marte didn’t reply to request for remark.
