Posts tagged Department of Consumer and Worker Protection
Op-ed: Can Zohran Make NYC a Union Town Again?
September 9, 2025 // The new mayor could host big online unionization trainings with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez have already done. If this led even a small fraction of Zohran’s 60,000-plus volunteers and over 6 million social media followers to start organizing their own workplaces—or to take a strategic job to unionize it—this could potentially generate thousands of new unionization campaigns. And were Mamdani to act upon our proposal to launch a broad Movement for an Affordable New York (MANY), then the pool of new potential workplace organizers would grow significantly.
Editorial: App delivery minimum wage is shutting out workers and NYC lefties don’t care
July 16, 2024 // The cost to consumers is skyrocketing: They spent 10% more on deliveries in Q1 of 2024 than over Q1 2023. Which means customers are tipping less — the average tip amount is down by $2.64. And while the fewer couriers still working are earning more per hour on paper (that’s true by definition when a wage floor is legally established), they are likely working much, much harder for that extra wage.