Lander's campaign staff secures union contract

First to have representation

Workers on Comptroller Brad Lander’s campaign for mayor have unionized with the Campaign Workers Guild and agreed to a contract with the mayoral candidate securing a salary floor, a healthcare stipend, limits on hours that staffers can work and other provisions. The contract covers 18 workers in the campaign’s organizing, political, communications, finance, administrative and digital divisions.

The workers are the only unionized staffers and only ones with a contract in this year’s mayor’s race, which has less than a week to go until the primary. The contract is a successor to the agreement that nine workers on Lander’s 2021 campaign for comptroller secured with the CWG and includes many of the same provisions. Lander’s campaign four years ago was also the first to unionize and secure a contract during that cycle.