Daily News | Stagehands head calls on Helen Gym to move her Bernie Sanders rally to a unionized venue
The rally is set for Sunday at Franklin Music Hall, the former Electric Factory, in the city’s Callowhill section. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, is also set to make an appearance alongside Gym, a progressive former City Council member who is one of five front-runners for the Democratic nomination for mayor.
Local 8 President Michael Barnes and building trades business manager Ryan Boyer said in a joint statement that they reached out to Gym’s campaign to assist them in moving the event to a unionized venue and did not receive a response.“This is where the rubber meets the road,” Barnes said Friday. “You can either have the integrity to do the right thing or just the willingness to say the right thing.
Brendan McPhillips, Gym’s campaign manager, characterized the situation as “a bad faith attempt by two individuals who are backing candidates falling in the polls to attempt to distract from the fact that Philadelphians are rallying around the only progressive candidate in the race for mayor.” “Helen’s record on labor is clear,” McPhillips said in a statement. “She’s stood on more picket lines, passed more worker protections, and done more to support Philly’s labor movement than any other mayoral candidate by a mile.”
showed Gym and Parker in a tight race with two other candidates, Rebecca Rhynhart and Allan Domb, while Brown trailed.
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