Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to require landlords to collectively bargain with tenant unions.
While NYC tenants are already legally allowed to organize, landlords are not required to recognize tenant unions or bargain with them.
Mamdani wants to change that.
"Socialists not only understand economics just as well as capitalists... but can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles." — @ZohranKMamdani
It has become fashionable to talk about the rise of technofeudalism.
But an Uber driver is not a peasant legally tied to a lord, but simply an insecure worker forced into an unbalanced commercial contract with an exploitative boss.