Unions are Hedging Their Bets in N.Y. Mayor's Race: With No Clear Frontrunner, Organized Labor is Split Among the Four Democrats

Forward, August, 2001 by Donadio, Rachel

Donadio, Rachel Forward 08-31-2001 Unions Are Hedging Their Bets in N.Y. Mayor's Race: With No Clear Frontrunner, Organized Labor is Split Among the Four Democrats Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, stood at the union's midtown headquarters recently and beamed as she endorsed City Comptroller Alan Hevesi to be the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City. Several weeks earlier, at an event in Chinatown, Bruce Raynor, president of the needle-trades union UNITE, enthusiastically backed Public Advocate Mark Green, the frontrunner in the four-way Democratic mayoral primary, who had earlier received an endorsement from Mike Fishman, the leader of the city's largest private-sector union, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees ...

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