Sanjay Pinto is a fellow at the University of Illinois Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development and the Worker Institute at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and an affiliate at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies and Data & Society Research Institute. His research focuses on the intersection of democratic governance, labor organizing, and movements for racial and gender justice.
Pro-worker policy isn’t just about the government improving labor standards. Zohran Mamdani’s administration could empower workers to shape and enforce standards by training and organizing each other.