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Council Speaker Says He Supports Bid By Staffers to Unionize

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 11/18/19

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson Nov. 14 declared he supports the effort by Council staffers to organize a union, a move first reported in this newspaper Nov. 8, when District Council 37 confirmed it was in the midst of trying to sign them up.

“I support unionization, so if staff here at the City Council wants to take that step, I wholeheartedly support them and I want to make it as easy as possible for them to do that,” Mr. Johnson said at his regularly scheduled press conference preceding the Council’s stated meeting.

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