Labor pressure on Nunez
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a child of the Los Angeles labor movement, is getting some heat from his former bosses.
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, where Nunez once served as political director, is putting pressure on him to oppose the measures approving several Indian gaming compacts because they lack enforceable worker protections.
The labor unions long have been trying to organize the casino workers.
The Assembly is scheduled to vote today on four measures.
Union leaders say none "have had a public hearing, no opportunity for worker representatives to publicly express their strong concerns with them. These compacts lack enforceable worker protections, will leave a generation of workers in California’s fastest growing service sector without the protection of state and federal laws or a union contract. "