[1] Issues described on the organization's website include affordable housing, worker and immigrant rights, improving public education, Wall Street accountability, and green energy.

He previously had been targeted by construction unions for preferring non-union workers who work for lower wages and often attempting to buy elections as a way to rig housing and development policy in their favor.

When the movement for a fair economy started in 2011 by the Service Employees International Union, NYCC began surveying low-income residents about affordable housing and found many of the most destitute workers to be in the fast food industry which at the time employed close to three million people.

The demonstrations then spread to Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee and beyond, until a year later when a nationwide one-day strike calling for $15 minimum wage and a fast food workers' union took place in more than 100 cities.

In 2015, in close collaboration with the Taxi Workers Alliance, NYCC launched a campaign to transform workplace in the access, or temporary work, recognizing that companies like Uber were shortchanging its low-income workforce.

Since its launch, the Hedge Clippers campaign has exposed nearly 100 individuals and their ties to the fossil fuel industry, housing loopholes, Puerto Rico debt crisis, public pension investments, and political campaigns including Paul Tudor Jones II, Daniel S. Loeb, and Paul Singer[9] who "bleed the economy through self-interested practice and then extend the damage through the lavish purchase of political influence.