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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the presumptive City Council speaker are signaling a new era of stricter corporate regulation is on the horizon — and business leaders are becoming uneasy.

Mamdani has been voicing his support for Starbucks workers striking over stalled contract negotiations. On Monday, he joined workers on a picket line in front of a Brooklyn branch and pledged to “hold these kinds of corporations accountable.”

City Councilmember Julie Menin, who last week announced she had enough votes

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