Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Katie Honan at The City report City Hall Officials met with Union Leaders who are pushing Mayor Zohran Mamdani to veto a controversial City Council Bill that would establish anti-protest buffer zones around schools and educational facilities. A representative of Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su met via video call with leaders of more than a half a dozen Unions and the New York City AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, according to multiple sources who were at the meeting or briefed on the talks. Su’s representative gave no indication whether Mamdani would issue a veto, according to multiple sources. Last month the Council approved two Bills creating protest buffer zones, one affecting Houses of Worship and the other targeting schools and “educational facilities.” The meeting came amid a growing pressure campaign from Organized Labor and other allies of Mamdani to veto the Bill. Several Labor and community groups had also sent a letter urging him to veto the Bill, describing it as a “radical overreach” that limits free speech and endangers New Yorkers. Two Unions that represent large numbers of college and University Teaching Staff - United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9A and Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York - are leading the opposition to the Bills, claiming that they would restrict their rights to Strike or protest in their workplace.

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