NEW YORK CITY-In a rare spirit of collaboration, the Real Estate Board of New York and 32BJ SEIU, the local union representing doormen and building service workers, are coming together to interview mayoral candidates, it was first reported Tuesday in Capital New York.

The groups have not always agreed with each other on various issues in the past but they’re looking to put aside their differences for this key election, says Rob Speyer, chairman of REBNY, in a statement to GlobeSt.com. “We look forward to an unprecedented degree of cooperation between REBNY and 32BJ,” he says. “We are so much more powerful together, and while we won’t see eye-to-eye every time, there are many critical issues where we share a common viewpoint and can create a new standard of how business and labor work together.”

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