Dear New Yorkers, Less than a year after the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chelsea became the first in the chain to unionize in New York City, a group of workers has filed a petition to oust its union. They’re being represented pro-bono by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTW), a longtime adversary of organized labor. The group was behind the case central to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision, a major ruling that said government workers do not have to pay union dues, overturning decades of precedent. The Chelsea store, which was the 10th Starbucks nationally to unionize, gained visibility last fall with a seven-week strike that resulted in an agreement from the company to regularly clean and sanitize the cafe and its equipment, after state health inspectors substantiated workers’ complaints of mold and pests. The petition by the Roastery workers comes days after workers at two other New York stores, in Rochester and Buffalo, also submitted decertification petitions. NRTW says it is not behind those moves. Read more here. Some other items of note: Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old seen on video killing Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office. Penny is expected to surrender and be arraigned today. Footage obtained by ProPublica gives a rare glimpse into how the NYPD investigates its own. In the spring of 2019, two officers entered the Bronx apartment of Kawaski Trawick, who called 911 after locking himself out. But 112 seconds after their arrival, one of the officers shot and killed Trawick. The NYPD’s investigation concluded that “no violation of department policy occurred” and the Bronx district attorney declined to prosecute. But investigators never questioned the officers about contradictions the footage revealed. City Councilmember Sandy Nurse (D-Brooklyn) is introducing legislation to curb illegal evictions, citing THE CITY’s 2022 exposé revealing that the NYPD rarely cracks down on illegal evictions — like if a landlord simply changes the locks and shuts tenants out. The four bills Nurse is introducing aim to increase penalties on building owners for illegally removing tenants and to widen eligibility for bringing unlawful eviction cases to Housing Court. As NYC braces for waves of new asylum-seekers, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is scrambling to find shelter options, from Floyd Bennett Field to East New York to southeast Queens. But at least one location Adams has named says it has yet to hear from City Hall. For the latest local numbers on COVID-19 hospitalizations, positivity rates and more, check our coronavirus tracker.
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