CSEA President Mary E. Sullivan recently announced our union’s endorsement of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for re-election as New York’s senior senator in November.
In announcing the endorsement, Sullivan placed our union’s considerable political muscle behind Senator Schumer, who has delivered for all New Yorkers during very difficult times, including playing a key role in ensuring the continuation of the essential services that CSEA members deliver.
“As majority leader and New York’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer has come through for all New Yorkers during a national time of crisis,” Sullivan said. “His leadership and work with the decision-makers in Washington to deliver needed federal relief to New York made sure our essential workers kept delivering their vital services, and that New Yorkers weren’t left behind.”
“I am proud to receive the endorsement of the wonderful members of CSEA and President Mary Sullivan,” Majority Leader Schumer said. “From public hospitals to mental health services to transportation, IT, sanitation and public safety and countless other essential jobs, the work that CSEA’s 300,000 members do is fundamental to the mission of both New York state and all our counties. That is why I fought so hard at the height of the COVID shutdown to deliver the historic $350 billion in aid for our state and local governments to keep CSEA workers on the job and serving the New York public through the pandemic. Together we will overcome this public health challenge and move New York state and the nation into a full recovery and bright future based on respect and fair pay and benefits for all our working families.”
Sullivan added that Schumer has always been a strong supporter of workers’ rights and a longtime friend of organized labor.
“CSEA is proud to endorse Majority Leader Schumer for another term as New York’s U.S. Senator, and we will work hard between now and November to get him re-elected,” Sullivan said.
