Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced the creation of a new city office focused on helping New York City workers learn about their rights, connect with worker organizations and organize around workplace issues.<\/p>\n
Mamdani signed an executive order establishing the Mayor\u2019s Office of Worker Power, which his administration described as the \u201cfirst office of its kind in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The office will bring City Hall and city agencies together to focus on worker outreach, education, research, policy and partnerships with worker organizations, according to a press release.<\/p>\n
Tony Perlstein, a longtime union and community organizer, will serve as the office\u2019s executive director, the release said.<\/p>\n
Perlstein is a former longshoreman who most recently served as a director in the United Auto Workers’ organizing department, the release added. He previously served as the union’s national co-director of education.<\/p>\n
According to City Hall, the new office will bring workers and union leaders together, holding hearings on important labor issues and connecting workers with organizations that support them.<\/p>\n
Research produced by the office in tandem with other city agencies will focus on \u201cpressing issues facing workers,\u201d City Hall said.<\/p>\n
The office will also focus on \u201cemerging challenges, including new technologies, worker misclassification, immigration-based exploitation and climate risks to worker safety,\u201d connecting workers with information about their rights at \u201ceveryday touchpoints, including workforce centers, libraries, IDNYC offices, schools and community events.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani said the office intends to help to give workers a greater role in shaping city policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day, working New Yorkers show up, do their jobs, and keep this city running,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cToo often, they have no say in the conditions they work under.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Mayor\u2019s Office of Worker Power will make sure workers have a seat at the table before exploitation becomes a crisis and violations become routine,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
His administration said the office builds on its efforts to strengthen worker protections, including a crackdown on deceptive tipping practices for app-based delivery workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced the creation of a new city office focused on helping New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[109,25,576,4275,9,24,12,63,87,134,136,135,27,200],"class_list":["post-340093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-erica-brosnan","tag-local-politics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}