Labor leaders are outspending business and real estate-funded groups in a bid to sway the shape of the new Council. The biggest beneficiary of union spending: A Brooklyn candidate at the center of an armory development project fight.
NEW YORK Call it payback.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is sticking it to Gov. Andrew Cuomo at every opportunity, seizing on the governor s misfortunes as crises pile up for his fellow Democrat and longtime rival.
De Blasio has called Cuomo’s alleged behavior “grotesque,” “perverse” and “terrifying,” saying Tuesday that he must resign if sexual harassment accusations lodged by multiple women are substantiated.
“If these allegations are true, he cannot govern,” the mayor told reporters.
There’s been no love lost between New York’s two top chief executives for years, with a simmering feud
dating back to 2015 as the mayor was fashioning himself as a national progressive leader and the governor was slumping in the polls.
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Mason Tenders District Council president Mike Hellstrom Jr. (Photos via Getty/Mason Tenders District Council)
The city’s laborers union is gearing up to endorse one of the city’s many mayoral hopefuls.
The Mason Tenders’ District Council, which is poised to announce its pick for mayor this month, has asked candidates to commit to something Mayor Bill de Blasio has not: hiring more union laborers on affordable housing projects.
Built into this question is another: How does each of the candidates plan to address the proliferation of what the union calls “body shops”?
The question is part of the union’s broader campaign against such shops, which it defines as nonunion companies that supply laborers to general contractors at low wages with limited benefits. The union has argued that such companies prey on vulnerable workers with limited choices, particularly formerly incarcerated workers. These shops, according to the union, are able to use the threat of violating parole