What Lazer wants is acknowledgment that the city has made progress. Supporting low-wage workers was not a priority of the previous Nutter administration, he said. The Mayor’s Office of Labor is a Kenney administration creation — the office’s functions previously bounced around different agencies. And, thanks in part to organizing from local labor groups, the office has steadily grown in funding and visibility. This year, it hired two people — director Amanda Shimko and outreach manager Candace Chewning — from nurses union PASNAP to bolster the office. There have been early talks, too, on developing a standalone Office of Labor so that it’s not contingent on a mayor’s interest in the issue.