2025 Mayoral Questionnaire

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1. Describe how you have stood with the District Council of Carpenters in the past. Provide specific examples.*

2. If applicable, describe a time when you disagreed with the District Council of Carpenters and explain why.*

3. Developers have long promised to build more affordable housing and create good-paying jobs in the process; all too often they do neither. As a result, 41% of construction workers in New York rely on government assistance, compared to 33% of all workers in New York. Construction workers are also three times more likely to lack health insurance than the average worker. These statistics do not account for undocumented construction workers, who face far worse exploitation. In recent years, the City Council has demanded stronger labor standards for our members, many of whom are their constituents. Developers, faced with the prospect of their rezonings being denied, suddenly found money to pay workers the wages they deserved.

3a. Will you commit to supporting Council Members who demand labor standards on projects in the ULURP process?*

3b. Do you support or oppose Council Member Deference? Explain.*

4. The Fair Share Act introduced by Council Member Kevin Riley would require that construction workers be paid prevailing wages on any nonresidential project receiving more than $1 million in funding from the city or a city-affiliated economic development entity. Would you sign the Fair Share Act into law?*

5. The Campaign Finance Board considers member-to-member communication about elections to be an in-kind monetary contribution, limiting unions’ ability to interact with and organize their members. Do you support eliminating this anti-union restriction?*

6. Local Law 196, which took effect in 2021, requires 40 hours of safety training for construction workers on most public and private projects. The Department of Buildings, however, has chronically lacked the resources necessary to enforce this law. Will you work to provide funding, inspectors, and oversight to the Department of Buildings so that it may better enforce Local Law 196?*

7. Section 224-a of the New York State Labor Law states that construction projects comprising at least 30% public funds and exceeding $5 million in cost must pay prevailing wages to construction workers. Time and time again, developers game these thresholds so that they may avoid paying family-sustaining wages to their workers (e.g. diluting the percent of public funds to 29% or arbitrarily valuing total construction costs at $4.9 million).

7a. Will you ensure that any renovations made to city-owned or city-leased property use union labor?*

7b. Under 224-a(8)(d), the City must notify recipients of public funds if they are subject to statutory prevailing wage requirements. Too often, the City abdicates this responsibility. Will you commit to proactively dictating prevailing wage requirements to developers receiving public funds?*

8. Will you commit to renewing Project Labor Agreements between the City and the Building and Construction Trades Council (BCTC) of Greater New York?

8a. Would you support a universal Project Labor Agreement (PLA) on NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) projects?*

8b. There has been a growing use of Emergency Work Notifications (EWNs) to circumvent prevailing wage requirements. Will you commit to narrowing the scope of emergency work, so that EWNs are not abused and workers are paid family-sustaining wages?*

9. What areas of the city, if any, do you believe the 485-x tax incentive program’s Zone A and Zone B wage standards should be extended to?*

10. Under the city’s Permanent Affordability Commitment Together program (part of the federal Rental Assistance Demonstration program), NYCHA leases its land and buildings to private entities, who oversee all repairs and maintenance. Construction work under the PACT program has been exclusively nonunion. Will you commit to requiring private entities leasing NYCHA properties to use union labor on all repairs?*

11. List your union endorsements.*

12. List all other significant endorsements.*

13. How much cash does your campaign have on hand? What are your fundraising goals?*

14. List your campaign consultants.*

2025 Mayoral Questionnaire

2025 Mayoral Questionnaire

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2025 Mayoral Questionnaire