A majority of City Council Members appear to be following the lead of Speaker Corey Johnson in enthusiastically supporting the move by their staff to form a union, based on City Hall interviews and email exchanges with most of them and their representatives.
Organizers started their card campaign on Nov. 18 and said they were making steady progress toward getting union cards from 51 percent of the workforce of 775 people who are split between two divisions: those belonging to the central Council staff under Mr. Johnson and those employed by the 50 other Council Members in their lower Manhattan offices and in their districts.
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