As the Mayor-Elect’s team launches its transition website and opens the door for New Yorkers to share their expertise and interest in serving this city, we noticed something important missing.

Workforce Development isn’t listed as an option on the resume submission form.

• Workforce development isn’t the same as economic development—but the two are inseparable, and we’ve long championed the need to link them.
• And we are wholly committed to worker justice, in partnership with skilled organizers and powerful coalitions. Worker justice is essential to workforce development.

At a time when connecting New Yorkers to good jobs, training, and career pathways is vital to our city’s recovery and long-term economic health, leaving workforce development off the list sends the wrong message, particularly when affordability is the rallying cry and the federal government strips access to essential benefits.

NYCETC represents hundreds of organizations working every day to ensure that every New Yorker has access to stable, high-wage careers. We urge the transition team to correct this omission and make sure workforce development is front and center in shaping the next administration’s priorities.

The people building and connecting NYC’s workforce deserve a seat at the table from day one.

With yesterday’s election ushering in new city leadership, New York stands at a turning point to reimagine its economy around working people, small businesses, and the communities that sustain them. NYCETC CEO Gregory J. Morris reflects on the path forward and the opportunity to shape a fairer, more connected city:

“New Yorkers have spoken—and with this election, a new era begins. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has reminded us that our city’s power lives with working people, small businesses, and the neighborhoods that refuse to be written out of New York’s story.

We’re ready to partner with the new administration to refocus and revive our dormant economy while expanding opportunity, strengthening local pathways to good jobs, and ensuring affordability for all who call New York home.

This is a moment to harness the resilience that defines New York, and to build a future where growth and opportunity advance together, grounded in dignity, integrity, and shared purpose.”