Congratulations, Boston Mayor Kim Janey

IBEW Local 103 congratulates Kim Janey, who in her new role as Acting Mayor of Boston, becomes the first Black woman to serve as mayor of the city.

Mayor Janey, a Boston native, has served on the City Council representing Roxbury since 2017 and was elected City Council president in 2019. During her political career, she has championed education and social justice issues. While in office, she worked with former Boston Mayor Walsh to overhaul how the city awards licenses to businesses in the city’s burgeoning marijuana industry.

Janey’s work led to the creation of the Boston Cannabis Board, which has the primary goal of expanding benefits to communities of color and working-class communities. She’s also advocated for expanding access to public transit for low-income people, and recently called upon the MBTA to restore service cuts.

Mayor Janey, whose roots in the South End and Roxbury go back six generations, has promised that “today is a new day” in the City of Boston. She has announced initiatives to boost business equity such as providing minorities and women new bidding opportunities, capacity-building grants, virtual networking, and new measures to hold the city more accountable when it comes to reaching its diversity goals. We look forward to her work on behalf of workers and working families and a bright new day for all of Boston.