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Their Kind of Race: UFT Joins ATU, WFP Behind Garcia for Chicago Mayor

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 3/30/15

The platform was a familiar one to those who watched Bill de Blasio’s successful run for Mayor two years ago: curbing economic inequality, spreading prosperity from the wealthiest neighborhoods to chronically poor ones and improving public education.

But the mustachioed mayoral candidate who spoke to more than 100 people March 23 traveled from further than Brooklyn to get to the United Federation of Teachers headquarters in lower Manhattan for a union-backed fundraiser.

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