The Mary’s candidate and the New York Comptroller releases the workers’ rights platform, which will increase the minimum wage and extend the “just cause” of protection.
In New Yar, the Comptroller releases the workers’ rights platform from which he shared exclusively Nation.
In New Yar, Brad Lander’s controller protests against the decision of the Trump administration on the state financing of scientific research on February 19, 2025.
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Brad Lander, Comptroller New York and Mary’s candidate, today releases the work of the workers with which he shared exclusively with Nation.
Only the fact that he teaches such a plan, said James Parrots, an employee of the New York Center in New York, who has been watching the Mayor of New York for decades. He said that “he never saw or heard a candidate who had a working platform in general.” The plan, he added, “very ambitious, comprehensive and thought out.”
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In an interview with Lander, he linked his proposal with the focus of his company: “It’s so expensive now and it really crushes people.” The main proposals of his company have so far been aimed at making the city more affordable, such as the solution of the fight accommodation and childcare. But, he said: “By helping workers earn more, have more stability, and the opportunity to organize is a majority of resolving the crisis of life in New York.”
The plan outlines measures that, according to Lander, will facilitate the organization and protect workplaces and payment. He wants to extend the city “Just the reason“The law he helped to pass and protects the fast food workers from arbitrarily to release, to all the workers. In addition to giving the city workers more stability, it will also interfere with the dismissal for the organization of the union. The plan requires Payment of passage In the case of dismissal, a financial pillow for unemployed workers, as well as primarily obstacles for employers to dismiss people. He would ban Incorrect provisions This prohibits employees to work on a similar business, releasing them from closing jobs and providing them with more economical mobility, and will continue more demands on behalf of the workers to get around any Arbitration Agreements This prohibits them to complain about the cruel treatment of the judicial system. It suggests creating industry councils that have raised pay Fast food workers in California and there is in place For home and home workers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Nevada.
The plan also calls on New York residents to be able to pay for vacations for any reason, not just specifically when they get sick, seriously injured, or sick or welcome a new child. Starting last summer, Chicago workers can take five days of rest for any reason, making the city’s rest policy Among the most expansive In the country. Such a law will lead to New York to the standard set by Chicago, while potentially putting pressure on the state to do the same as Illinois followed by the leader of Chicago. After all 2014. New York law Before the state adopted His own version at the end of 2020.
Lander also supports plan To increase the minimum wage this year, up to $ 19.25 and $ 21.25 next year, after which it is after that to keep up with inflation. The current minimum wage $ 16.50 An hour.
Lander fought for the rights of workers based on applications, pushing to Current law This guarantees the minimum wage for food delivery workers. “Due to the Brad’s leadership on this issue, it is not exaggerated to say that New York is the world leader in terms of application-based applications,” Parrot said. Its platform proposes to go further, extending this law to other workers based on applications, and providing great transparency as they pay and lean and protect them from arbitrary deactivations that are similar to dismissal.
Its platform also emphasizes using all the powers of the city to fulfill and promote the rights of workers. Lander would have created a new mayor of the workers’ rights to send agencies across the city to protect and promote the rights of workers. “There are so many tools in the city,” Lander said, showing not only his budget, but also contracts, purchases, land use, economic development, permit and other powers. “You can look at every solution from the question:” Does it raise this New York workers and make better wages needed for survival in this expensive city, good work conditions, good work safety and fair opportunity? “
It has experience in using creative methods to achieve such results. As a comptroller he used investment in the city’s retirement fund to support trade union workers in Starbucks and Veniceand he created Violation of the dashboard employer What he called on urban agencies to refer to the procurement process. “These are things that can greatly benefit people quite quickly using the strategic use of the tools we already have,” he said.
If he is elected mayor, many Landera measures will require action from external organizations to become reality. Expanding fair reasons, paid leave, applications and implementation of the payment and session standards will require the legislation to accept the legislation. The minimum wage of the city can only be raised when cooperating the state government, although Lander promises to fight for the city’s right to increase wages independently.
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His platform comes at a time when Trump’s administration nominates federal agencies. Lander pointed to the “complete eradication” of law enforcement agencies at Trump. According to him, many works of his plan are selected where the federal government departs, from the implementation of civil rights to the law and order of sexual harassment to the protection of labor immigrants. He said, “It just feels a very important time.”
His plan also falls into the race for the mayor of New York, especially after the former governor of New York Andrew Kuom entered the fight. Lander hopes his platform will have a contrast with kuoma, in particular. “Andrew Kuom has a long and horrible history in relation to the rights and trade unions of workers,” Lander said. Even if Cuomo eventually concluded deals, for example, an increase in the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour or the introduction of paid family holidays, he “always kicked and shouted, and after receiving a huge amount of pain and tribute.”
There are several obvious differences between two candidates: when Lander supports the rules to restrain companies such as Uber, such as Cuomo often happens remove Campaign side. “While Andrew Kuoma was the governor, he never showed a guide that is necessary in order to truly solve and improve these security programs,” Parrots said. Lander proposes not only to increase the minimum wage, but also guarantees that in the coming years it automatically rises faster; Cuomo struggled with adding to wages to life account concluded a deal In 2023 to update it.
Will the workers vote for a “corrupt chaos”, “asked Lander, or” Who – who, who was in his corner again and again? “
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