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Union workers, Council members urge Mamdani to fully fund city’s labor watchdog agency as budget deficit fears grow

By Sadie Brown Posted on

Dozens of union workers rallied at City Hall on Monday to demand that the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) receive full budgetary funding, following Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed cuts to the agency’s coffers in his preliminary spending plan.

City Council Member Harvey Epstein (D-Manhattan), who chairs the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection and organized the event, underscored the agency’s role as a watchdog and enforcement arm of NYC’s labor and consumer protection laws.

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Union workers, Council members urge Mamdani to fully fund city’s labor watchdog agency as budget deficit fears grow

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