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Lander releases 'workers’ rights platform,' hammers Cuomo

City comptroller's mayoral run takes shape

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
Posted 3/21/25

Mayoral candidate Brad Lander, the city comptroller, unveiled his “workers’ rights platform” Thursday, pledging that as mayor he would push to raise the minimum wage, expand just-cause protections, guarantee more time off and strengthen workplace harassment laws. 

Billing it as the first policy program of its kind in the 2025 race, Lander said his objective was to ensure that “our city has the nation's strongest labor civil rights and immigrant worker protections that we can possibly have." 

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