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ALIGN on End of Legislative Session: Huge Victories for Workers as the Climate Crisis Speeds Past Us [1]

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Date: 2024-06

For Immediate Release: June 8, 2024

Media Contact: Lisa Thomas, [email protected], (347) 415-6431

ALBANY, NY – As New York’s 2024 legislative session came to a close, Theodore A. Moore, ALIGN Executive Director, released the following statement:

“The legislative session ended with huge victories for workers — the Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Act will protect thousands of workers in one of the state’s most dangerous industries, and the Retail Worker Safety Act will take a proactive rather than punitive approach to retail safety. And yet, another year passed without protecting workers enduring extreme heat, toxic fumes, and the rising cost of living upstate.

At the eleventh hour, the Assembly also passed the Climate Superfund Act, joining the ever-growing chorus of New Yorkers saying enough is enough, and placing the burden of rising climate costs on Big Oil and corporate polluters, not just working families. But one ‘environmental thing’ a year won’t meet the climate crisis at the speed it’s racing past us, especially when long-fought wins like congestion pricing can be demolished in an instant. Without aggressively transitioning New York off of fossil fuels and creating the green jobs of the future, the legislature calls it quits on our state’s survival.

We applaud the lawmakers who worked tirelessly this session to make New York sustainable, and ALIGN will keep fighting for dignity and justice for all New Yorkers,” said Theodore A. Moore, ALIGN Executive Director.

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