{"id":76347,"date":"2025-12-20T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76347\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:45:05","slug":"mamdani-taps-unafraid-and-unbought-julie-su-as-first-nyc-deputy-mayor-for-economic-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76347\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Taps ‘Unafraid and Unbought’ Julie Su as First NYC Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a move cheered by advocates for the working class<\/a>, New York City<\/a> Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a> said Friday that former acting US Labor Secretary Julie Su will serve as the city’s first-ever deputy mayor for economic justice.<\/p>\n

“Welcome to a new era, Julie Su,” Mamdani, a Democrat, said<\/a> in a social media<\/a> post announcing the appointment. “As former US secretary of labor, Julie played a central role in fighting for workers<\/a>, ensuring a just day’s pay for a hard day’s work, and saving the pensions of more than a million union workers and retirees.”<\/p>\n

Speaking at a Friday press conference in Staten Island with Mamdani and Deputy Mayor for Housing nominee Leila Bozorg, Su said<\/a>: “In the richest city in the richest country in the world, no one should be treated as disposable. Dignity on the job is not a privilege but a right, justice is not abstract but it is felt in a paycheck you can live on, a schedule that you can build a life around, a workplace where your voice matters, and a city that has your back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Su, who had previously served as California labor secretary and deputy US labor secretary, was nominated<\/a> by former President Joe Biden<\/a> to permanently lead the Department of Labor. However, Republicans<\/a> and some right-wing<\/a> Democrats in the US Senate<\/a> blocked<\/a> her appointment, so Biden installed her in an acting capacity, in which she served from March 2023 until the end of the Democrat’s administration in January.<\/p>\n

During her tenure, Su championed gig workers; fought to preserve pensions for retirees; pushed for workplace protections from Covid-19<\/a> and environmental harms; and helped negotiate labor agreements for healthcare<\/a> professionals, flight attendants, and others.<\/p>\n

Su will now work with Mamdani, a democratic socialist, as he seeks to deliver on his campaign promises of free public childcare and municipal buses, a freeze on rent-stabilized housing, and city-owned grocery stores to residents of the nation’s largest city.<\/p>\n

“What a thrilling day for the working class of New York City to have the first-ever deputy mayor for economic justice to ensure that our issues are front [and] center at every level of city government,” New York Taxi Workers Alliance executive director Bhairavi Desai said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“With the appointment of the esteemed Julie Su\u2014who is unafraid and unbought by corporate interests\u2014Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is cementing the highest, uncompromised, and effective standards for a better life for New Yorkers abandoned and betrayed in decades past,” Desai added.<\/p>\n

The NYC Central Labor Council of the AFL-CIO said<\/a> on Bluesky: “Big news! Julie Su as deputy mayor for economic justice brings deep experience enforcing labor law, fighting wage theft, and standing up for working families.”<\/p>\n

“She\u2019s known and respected across the labor movement, including here in NYC,” the council added. “Looking forward to working with a proven champion for workers at City Hall!”<\/p>\n

Service Employees International Union international president April Verrett said<\/a> on X that Su “has spent her career standing with workers and holding powerful interests to account.”<\/p>\n

“Bringing her into City Hall says New York is done talking and ready to throw down for the people who keep this city moving,” she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a move cheered by advocates for the working class, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[230,32069,38329,9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-76347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-biden-administration","9":"tag-economic-justice","10":"tag-julie-su","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76347","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=76347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}