Zach reports back from the Home Health Aides' Rally: Emphatically, in a process Rivera rightly called "Democracy in Action," the workers, in an open air vote of thousands and thousands of people, rejected the proposal and voted to stay out for the remainder of the three days. After this, which was kind of amazing to watch, as thousands of workers chanted "strike" in unison, we marched down 43rd streed and turned on to ninth avenue, filling half the street (and thus moviing very slowly) down to 26th street, where we turned east, marched over to fifth, and then turned north again to 32nd street, where we heard a few more speakers and a live band playing a customized 1199 version of "aint no stopping us now." What struck me, as i marched was the energy and feeling of power everyone had. The organizing that went in to this strike must have been pretty incredible, because these workers were out in force and "ready to rumble." And the crowds on the sidewalks and the windows of office buildings and balconies of new-development condos in hell's kitchen were behind the strike 100%.