City Hall is catching heat from one of its own unions, which on Wednesday demanded that Mayor Zohran Mamdani finally release an overdue pay-disparity report. Union leaders say the missing dataset leaves thousands of municipal workers, many of them women of color, in the dark about who earns what while rent, housing and grocery costs keep climbing. CWA Local 1180 argues the update would spotlight where pay lags across agencies and could reorder bargaining priorities ahead of contract talks, and they say the delay undercuts transparency and leaves members scrambling to make ends meet.
CWA Local 1180, which represents more than 9,000 active members and is, the union says, “overwhelmingly comprised of women, women of color, and other minorities,” covers administrative staff across NYC Health + Hospitals, the Department of Education and other agencies. Union officials say a clear, public pay-disparity report would give both negotiators and the general public a straightforward breakdown of who is paid what inside city government. Local 1180 has been staging rallies and ramping up public pressure as bargaining talks draw closer.
The demand was laid out in reporting by Documented, which cited union leaders and an email from Ray Legendre, a spokesperson for the city’s Office of Technology and Innovation. In that email, Legendre said the city “is working to release the 2025 update,” although he did not offer any specific timeline for when workers or the public might actually see the numbers…