One of the largest municipal unions representing security guards at Big Apple public schools, colleges, housing complexes, and homeless shelters has endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for mayor.
The head of the 25,000-member Teamsters Local 237 insisted that Cuomo, 67, is best placed to “address the problems we’re facing.”
“Cuomo knows how to operate things. He knows how to run the city,” union President Gregory Floyd told The Post Thursday of the disgraced pol staging a comeback bid.
“He’s the best candidate in the race to address the problems we’re facing.”
Floyd said he’s known Mayor Eric Adam for 30 years and didn’t back him for mayor in 2021.
“Am I surprised?,” he said sarcastically of Adams’s scandal-scarred tenure at City Hall.
As for New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams — who announced her mayoral run Wednesday — Floyd said she was “very late in entering the race.”
The Teamsters’ endorsement of Cuomo is “important” because it “breaks up support within the municipal unions,” a labor insider said.
This means that neither Eric Adams nor Adrienne Adams — no relation — can count on overwhelming support from the unions representing the hundreds of thousands of city government employees.
Cuomo also recently landed an endorsement from some of the construction trade unions, including the New York City District Council of Carpenters.
Mayoral primary elections are scheduled to be held on June 24.
The former three-term governor is making a comeback bid for mayor after resigning as the state’s chief executive following a slew of sexual misconduct accusations he denies.
Cuomo’s strengths outweigh his flaws, Floyd said, noting that President Trump was elected president despite his 34-count conviction of falsifying business records in the hush money case involving porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump claimed the prosecution was a partisan witch hunt.
“We need someone who can run the city correctly,” Floyd said.
Cuomo is the front-runner in the Democratic primary for mayor, according to recent polls.
Other candidates running in the Democratic primary include state Sens. Jessica Ramos and Zellnor Myrie, city Comptroller Brad Lander, state Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, ex-Assemblyman Michael Blake, former city Comptroller Scott Stringer and financier Whitney Tilson.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa is the declared Republican candidate for mayor.
