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Local 237 President: Mayor's Right, I Do Have His Number

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 9/4/20

Teamsters Local 237 President Greg Floyd could be excused if he began referring to Bill de Blasio as Mayor Disingenuous.

A reporter called Mr. Floyd Sept. 1 about another subject, and during the course of the conversation asked whether he had been invited to be part of the press conference taking place at City Hall at that moment about the delay in the opening of city schools until Sept. 21. United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew—who had been scheduled to hold a strike-authorization vote that afternoon if the Mayor stuck to his plan for a Sept. 10 openingwas a participant, as was District Council 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido, who represents School Nurses, lunch workers and crossing guards.

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