Eddie Velazquez

Eddie Velazquez

Eddie Velazquez is a journalist in upstate New York focused on covering organized labor, and the state’s housing and childhood lead poisoning crises. You can follow his work on Twitter @ezvelazquez.

22 posts
color photograph of an Amazon worker in a blue vest with the Amazon curved arrow on the back unloading a truck full of packag
Economy & Workers' Rights

Amazon workers struggle with injuries and low pay despite company’s profits

Marcio Rodriguez has worked loading planes at Amazon’s KCVG facility in northern Kentucky for the past year and a half. Part of his duties at Amazon’s largest air hub in the world include loading cargo containers weighing up to 4,000 pounds onto Amazon Air aircraft. “You’re

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5 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

Major League Soccer referees end month-long labor lockout

Major League Soccer (MLS) and union referees have finalized a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), ending a month-long labor lockout that saw union referees on the sidelines. The new CBA, which the union voted to ratify on March 25, expires in early 2031 and includes adjustments to salaries and travel

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5 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

Workers in the game industry turn to unions for protection from rampant layoffs

The number of workers in the video game industry laid off so far this year is on the brink of surpassing the more than 10,000 job losses suffered across the industry in 2023. As companies shed their workforces, union organizers and game workers are turning toward union organizing as

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6 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

TCGPlayer workers say company delays have cost them months of meaningful bargaining

Workers at eBay’s first union voted to unionize last March

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6 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

New York City renters turn to lawmakers to tackle affordability crisis

From January to December 2023, rents in New York City increased by 3.4%

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6 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

Workers say employers are retaliating against them for voicing support for Palestine

“It is new-age McCarthyism … and it is so scary.”

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5 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

Advocates in Albany say the city is waging war on poor people

The Albany City Council is being criticized for discouraging helping panhandlers and enforcing loitering laws

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5 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Economy & Workers' Rights

TCGplayer workers are ‘cautiously optimistic’ as company agrees to bargaining

The eBay-owned trading card retailer won their union election in March

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6 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Climate & Environment

Organizers in upstate New York make waves in fight to tackle lead poisoning

Child lead poisoning rates in some New York census tracts are roughly twice as high than those in Flint, Michigan, at the peak of its water crisis

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6 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez
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Crime, Reform & Abolition

Confusion around SafeCam programs concerns activists 

Advocates warn SafeCam programs could be harmful to overpoliced populations

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5 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez

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