“I think the leadership has failed workers for a while,” said Nirmal Lorick, who is challenging the longtime president of Teamsters Local 237, Gregory Floyd, in the union’s upcoming election. “People are feeling like they want someone to stand up for them.”
Mr. Lorick, who has worked at the Housing Authority for 30 years, said that School Safety Agents, NYCHA employees, Department of Homeless Services Officers, as well as other titles represented by 24,000-member union, were being “beaten down” by low morale, sparking his decision to run. Mail-in ballots, which will be sent out later this month, are due back Oct. 7, and will be counted by Global Election Solutions.
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