Efforts to revitalize downtowns by repopulating workplaces are meeting a wall of union resistance.
have recently echoed calls by Democratic mayors including Muriel Bowser of the District of Columbia and Eric Adams of New York to dial back remote-work policies that have hollowed urban cores and drained city coffers. Those efforts have created tension with labor groups that often play major roles in big-city politics.
Democratic city leaders see getting employees to give up remote work as the easiest way to return their communities to pre-pandemic levels of economic vibrancy, and they’ve focused attention on government workers because of their limited ability to influence private-sector policies. But those efforts aren’t sitting well with municipal employees, who are just as enamored of flexible work arrangements as their corporate contemporaries and just as willing to fight to keep them.
That conflict could mean trouble ahead for Democratic politicians who have relied on labor support and seek to fashion themselves as pro-union. “It’s incredibly good politically to be pro-union because that is a base within the Democratic Party, but at the same time, this is where the rubber meets the road,” said Avery Cohen, who served as an aide to former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and is now vice president at the Democratic strategist firm SKDK. “Municipal workers are your voters and are typically engaged. So if they don’t see you as a champion of their interests, it is a vulnerability.
While mayors across the country are dealing with the problem, no city highlights the tension better than the District of Columbia, which is trying to wrangle its own personnel while also dealing with the fact that 23 percent of its downtown office space is owned or leased by the federal government and about
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