New York City Mayor Eric Adams rallied with sanitation workers Wednesday — touting a month-old endorsement from the union while taking shots at mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.

Hizzoner joined a rowdy crowd of over 200 members of the Teamsters Local 831 union in downtown Manhattan and highlighted a five-year contract his administration granted sanitation workers in 2023. 4

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“I know what it is when we came into office, and I made a commitment to you that we would settle your contracts,” Adams said.

Local 831 is one of the non-law enforcement groups that have endorsed the mayor, who is running for re-election in November on the independent line “Protect and Serve” after dropping out of a Democratic Party primary.

The union first put its support behind the incumbent mayor in

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