Major union endorses Chuy Garcia for mayor

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Jesus “Chuy” Garcia received a major boost Saturday in his bid to unseat Mayor Rahm Emanuel, as the powerful and big-spending Service Employees International Union’s State Council endorsed the challenger in the April 7 runoff election.

The union was divided in the first round of voting last month. While the SEIU Healthcare local has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Garcia, SEIU Local 1 — which represents janitors — had remained neutral and even disputed the validity of SEIU Healthcare’s support for Garcia.

But SEIU Local 1 officials began rethinking their position after Garcia won the right to face Emanuel in the runoff, and the State Council voted to back Garcia at a meeting Saturday morning.

Garcia keeps plugging along.