New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams speaks throughout a information convention at Metropolis Corridor in New York, Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
(AP Picture/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
Since day one, this administration has had a transparent mission: shield public security, rebuild our economic system, and make our metropolis extra livable for on a regular basis New Yorkers. Each day, we’re delivering on that imaginative and prescient. Now we have recovered the entire private-sector jobs misplaced in the course of the pandemic, one yr forward of schedule; general crime is down throughout the town this yr, because it was final yr; and we’re bettering the standard of life for the 8.3 million New Yorkers who name this metropolis dwelling.
However whereas our metropolis has recovered from the pandemic, our restoration has not benefitted each New Yorker equitably. Black unemployment nonetheless stays far too excessive in our metropolis and we can not permit this development to proceed — that’s the reason we’re doing the whole lot we will to ensure New York Metropolis stays a metropolis for working-class folks.
Final week, we took a giant step ahead with the launch of Jobs NYC, a whole-of-government strategy to bringing job and profession coaching alternatives to communities which have been neglected for too lengthy. As a part of Jobs NYC, we’re kicking off a collection of hiring halls in neighborhoods dealing with employment disparities. These occasions meet New Yorkers the place they’re, bringing well-paying public- and private-sector job alternatives to New Yorkers throughout the 5 boroughs.
We additionally launched an all-new jobs portal, jobs.nyc.gov. Job seekers can now decide up their telephones to go to this brand-new web site or go in-person to a hiring corridor to seek out new job alternatives. That is all-hands-on-deck effort to make it simpler and extra accessible than ever for all New Yorkers to take part in our thriving economic system.
Additional, Jobs NYC builds on motion we took final yr to reform our minimal qualification necessities for sure entry degree metropolis jobs, together with eradicating school diploma necessities for quite a few positions. Now we have 1000’s of open jobs in metropolis authorities, from college security brokers to tech roles. Previously, there have been too many historic limitations stopping New Yorkers from changing into employed. These commonsense reforms are making good-paying jobs extra accessible than ever as a result of we wish extra New Yorkers to hitch Staff New York.
We additionally need folks to who work for metropolis authorities to have entry to the various advantages that meet the wants of working-class households. Final month, we made city government more family-friendly for thousands of employees by increasing each paid parental and household depart for non-union metropolis employees. Impacting over 10,000 municipal staff and making the town extra aggressive with municipalities and personal employers throughout the nation, we doubled paid parental depart for non-union staff, from six to 12 weeks, and commenced offering as much as 12 weeks of paid household depart for these caring for a critically sick member of the family.
I’m proud to be a blue-collar mayor who was previously in a union. That can be why we have now labored tirelessly to make sure that the Metropolis of New York’s labor sector have up to date and improved contracts. Within the final 13 months, we have now negotiated contracts with unions representing 95 p.c of the town’s workforce and 100% of the town’s uniformed workforce, securing our hard-working public servants higher advantages and better pay.
Our administration understands {that a} job is greater than what we do within the waking hours of our lives; a job is what permits us to attain the American Dream. That’s the reason we have now made historic investments to attach New Yorkers with the profession and coaching alternatives they should earn good-paying jobs.
And we’re dedicated to creating positive that every one New Yorkers, notably these in Black and Brown communities, share within the prosperity of our metropolis. Jobs NYC will assist us recruit the following era of public servants and leaders who will assist us construct a extra equitable New York Metropolis, wherein everybody has entry to a great job that may assist them help a household and construct a way of mission and satisfaction.
Collectively, let’s hold New York Metropolis the perfect metropolis on this planet to reside — and work — in.
