Zohran Mamdani: “When we think about wage theft in this city, it is something…”

“We are speaking about laws being broken in this country and in this city, and yet so many corporations do so because they know they will never be held Accountable. When we think about wage theft in this city, it is something that is rarely treated with the kind of seriousness of other levels of crime. We have to treat it all as something worthy of our attention. Can I ask a question? Many of the workers in this city are immigrants.” (35:57–36:04)

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