Posts tagged Department of Consumer and Worker Protection

    News Article ● Labor Unionization Unions Worker Centers

    Mamdani creates new DSA-inspired office to help NYC workers unionize: ‘Concerning for small business’

    September 9, 2026 // The office will hold hearings on “worker issues” and develop policy proposals based on testimony from employees. It will also give out information about workers’ rights and help connect employees interested in starting unions with organizations that can help them, City Hall said. Tony Perlstein, a former dockworker, union organizer and deputy director of communications for the national lefty organizing group Center for Popular Democracy, will run the office. It’s not clear if anyone else will be hired to staff the office, or how much its budget will be. Perlstein will report to Mamdani’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su, previously a cabinet official under President Joe Biden.

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor Unionization Unions

    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.

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    Op-ed / Commentary ● Labor

    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.

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