New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood inside Washington Square Park on May Day waxing poetically about socialist icon Eugene V. Debs and the battle for the eight hour workday.

But just 20-some-odd blocks away outside the gates of City Hall home care workers and their allies fighting to end the 24-hour workday and other working class struggles against privatization and displacement called out Hizzoner’s hypocrisy in turning a blind eye to all those ongoing battles.

“During our hunger strike he ignored us, and even today he is working with Governor [Kathy] Hochul to block the bill,” home care worker and “No More 24” advocate Cai Qiong Liu said through an interpreter. “As working women we’ve had enough of this hypocrisy hiding behind a socialist banner while forcing women of color to work 24 hour workdays, planning to build a jail in Chinatown, and forcibly demolishing public housing in Chelsea.”

New York City home care workers pushing for passage of Intro. 303—the “No More 24” bill—completed their latest weeklong hunger strike on April 23 with democratic socialist Mayor Mamdani never having once met with them.

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