Labor leader Merav Michaeli welcomed Kathy Hochul becoming acting governor of New York in a Twitter post on Sunday morning.
She wrote that New York only received its first woman governor after 56 men, due to sexual harrassment charges against governor Andrew Cuomo.
"Sometimes, change comes in a twisted way, but it ultimately arrives," she wrote. "We simply must make it a norm: No to sexual harassment, yes to gender equality in the workplace and in general."