{"id":100,"date":"2026-03-30T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/?p=100"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:36:44","slug":"union-workers-council-members-urge-mamdani-to-fully-fund-citys-labor-watchdog-agency-as-budget-deficit-fears-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/2026\/03\/30\/union-workers-council-members-urge-mamdani-to-fully-fund-citys-labor-watchdog-agency-as-budget-deficit-fears-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Union workers, Council members urge Mamdani to fully fund city\u2019s labor watchdog agency as budget deficit fears grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AMNY \u2014 Dozens of union workers rallied at City Hall on Monday to demand that the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/dca\/index.page\">Department of Consumer and Worker Protection<\/a> DCWP receive full budgetary funding, following Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s proposed cuts to the agency\u2019s coffers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mamdanis-budget-property-tax-hikes\/\">in his preliminary spending plan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Council Member Harvey Epstein D-Manhattan, who chairs the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection and organized the event, underscored the agency\u2019s role as a watchdog and enforcement arm of NYC\u2019s labor and consumer protection laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/union-council-mamdani-labor-watchdog-agency-dcwp\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMNY \u2014 Dozens of union workers rallied at City Hall on Monday to demand that the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/dca\/index.page\">Department of Consumer and Worker Protection<\/a> DCWP receive full budgetary funding, following Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s proposed cuts to the agency\u2019s coffers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mamdanis-budget-property-tax-hikes\/\">in his preliminary spending plan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>City Council Member Harvey Epstein D-Manhattan, who chairs the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection and organized the event, underscored the agency\u2019s role as a watchdog and enforcement arm of NYC\u2019s labor and consumer protection laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/2026\/03\/30\/union-workers-council-members-urge-mamdani-to-fully-fund-citys-labor-watchdog-agency-as-budget-deficit-fears-grow\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}