Meeting Member and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters at his Election Night time celebration in Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens. Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
Photograph By Dean Moses
Two of the town’s most influential unions endorsed presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Friday, breaking with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whom that they had supported earlier than Tuesday’s main of the 2025 New York Metropolis mayor’s race.
The unions, 32BJ SEIU and the Resort and Gaming Trades Council (HTC), representing constructing service and hospitality employees, respectively, are the newest former Cuomo backers to shift their help to Mamdani.
Friday additionally introduced an endorsement from the New York State Nurses Affiliation, which represents over 42,000 registered nurses statewide.
“This is a campaign for the working people of this city who deserve dignity on the job and neighborhoods they can afford,” Mamdani mentioned in a press release. “That’s exactly who HTC, 32BJ and NYSNA fights and delivers for every single day, and I am honored to have their support as the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York. Together, we will win a new day for the New Yorkers who keep this city running every single day.”
This can be a marketing campaign for the working individuals of our metropolis who deserve dignity on the job and neighborhoods they will afford.
The unions’ switch-ups are a significant blow to Cuomo marketing campaign which is already on shaky floor as he faces a major loss within the Democratic main. In accordance with marketing campaign sources, he plans to maintain his unbiased poll line for the final election however has not but determined whether or not to proceed his marketing campaign, awaiting the ultimate ranked-choice voting outcomes, which the town Board of Elections will launch on July 1.
Spokesperson for the Cuomo marketing campaign, Wealthy Azzopardi, instructed amNY, “We appreciated and valued their support during the primary.”
In a press release turning their help to Mamdani, 32BJ SEIU President Manny Pastreich praised his marketing campaign’s give attention to inexpensive housing, family-supporting wages, and improved transportation.
Pastreich mentioned Mamdani “has united and inspired New Yorkers with a hopeful vision for an affordable city” and is able to stand as much as assaults from the Trump administration. He mentioned the unions’ some 85,000 members are able to put boots on the bottom and “join the Zohran coalition working to build a better city.”
HTC President Wealthy Maroko echoed these views, saying Mamdani’s priorities align with the wants of the union’s 40,000 members.
Maroko added that Mamdani’s dedication to enhancing affordability and high quality of life for working New Yorkers displays the union’s targets and expressed confidence that Mamdani would stand with hospitality employees in any battle.
Each 32BJ SEIU and HTC supported Mayor Eric Adams in his 2021 marketing campaign however initially threw their help behind Cuomo in April as Hizzoner pursues reelection on an unbiased line.
