Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani Monday introduced his decide for main town’s Division of Client and Employee Safety — a key company in urgent Mamdani’s aggressive pro-worker agenda.
Sam Levine, who beforehand labored on the Federal Commerce Fee beneath Lina Khan, will serve within the position.
Mamdani praised Levine as “unafraid to take on entrenched interests” at a decrease Manhattan press convention saying the appointment.
“He will make DCWP a force to be reckoned with, one that refuses to allow corporations to treat their employees as expendable,” the mayor-elect mentioned. “When he succeeds, that success will be felt in a city that is vibrant with flourishing small businesses, in markets full of people who can afford to buy gifts and goods for themselves and their loved ones, in workers who know that their leaders, in fact have their backs and in an economy that is fairer and more accessible for all.”
The company is a vital a part of Mamdani’s agenda, and the incoming mayor has mentioned he intends to rework the company into an aggressive shopper watchdog. He’s promised to double the company’s roughly $65 million finances — a marketing campaign promise he reiterated Monday — and broaden workers so as to go after extra unhealthy actors.
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks throughout a press convention Monday to announce the appointment of Sam Levine (proper) as a Commissioner of the Division of Client and Employee Safety. (Photograph by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP by way of Getty Photos)
“As Commissioner for the Department of Consumer and local protection, I’ll make sure that every big worker, small business owner, independent contractor and consumer, knows their rights and knows with confidence that they have a champion in the city government,” Levine mentioned.
The decide garnered reward from Khan, the FTC chair beneath the Biden Administration who’s a co-chair of Mamdani’s transition.
“Levine is an extraordinary public servant who will enforce the law without fear or favor, ensuring that consumers and workers across NYC get a fair shake,” she wrote on social media.
The mayor-elect additionally just lately appointed Julie Su as his deputy mayor for financial justice, a model new position. Su was the performing U.S. Division of Labor secretary beneath President Biden. Su will oversee the DCWP.
