Mamdani pushing politically motivated targeting of small buinesses with Executive Order

Mayor Mamdani launches taxpayer-funded office to push unionization across New York City

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order creating a new city office dedicated to helping private-sector workers unionize, drawing sharp criticism from small-business advocates who say the government has no place tipping the scales.

The Mayor's Office of Worker Power, announced Monday, will hold hearings on workplace issues, draft policy proposals, distribute information about workers' rights, and connect employees directly with union-organizing groups.

Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, tapped Tony Perlstein, a former dockworker, union organizer, and onetime deputy director of communications at the Center for Popular Democracy, a national left-wing organizing group, to run the operation. Perlstein will report to Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su, who previously served as a cabinet official under President Joe Biden.

The office's budget has not been disclosed. City Hall has not said how many additional staff members will be hired beyond Perlstein. And the executive order's full text has not been published, leaving business owners and taxpayers with more questions than answers about how far the new office's reach will extend.

Mamdani's order empowers agencies to investigate businesses without a single complaint Beyond creating the new office. Mamdani's executive order directs three city agencies, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and the Commission on Human Rights

They will develop what the order calls "directed investigation procedures" for workplace violations and "other predatory practices" even when no complaint has been filed.

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