Workers at the nation’s first two overdose consumption sites are fighting for a wall-to-wall union, job security, better health care and a democratic workplace.
Workers at OnPoint NYC face the legacy of the racist, anti-worker, anti-poor drug war which attacks predominantly poor, racialized, and working class people on a daily basis. The war on drugs championed the criminalization of drugs and drug use over a public health-focused, harm reduction-based approach. Unionizing workers must contend with the outcomes of a capitalist system that creates poverty, inequality, psychological suffering, and addiction.
Under capitalism, however, various social services, including harm reduction services provided by employees of OnPoint NYC, are privatized instead of socialized for the public good under worker and community control. As member of Left Voice and physician at OnPoint NYC, Michael Pappas states: OnPoint NYC strives to provide a humanizing space for people using substances. There’s an interesting relationship here as the services OnPoint NYC provides are useful to the capitalist system in a way because it’s ideal for the ruling class to keep the end result of capitalism—poverty, homelessness, psychological suffering, etc.—out of the public eye for the ongoing facilitation of private accumulation under the system.
As the workers at OnPoint NYC fight for their union recognition and the harm reduction industry joins the labor movement, there could be space for workers in the sector to escalate their demands beyond workplace protections to confront capitalism, the system that creates the various forms of suffering harm reduction workers see every day.
Unionization, especially of workers who are part of the community itself, is a first step toward a stronger system of worker and community control. The unionizing of OnPoint NYC could exemplify to other social service agencies how the unorganized can organize themselves. We need a system where workers, patients, and community members control their workplaces and care, not the bosses.
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