New head of largest state worker union won’t back Newsom
Associated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The new president-elect of California’s largest state employee union said Tuesday that the influential organization won’t back Democratic Gov. Richard Louis Brown said anger over union contract concessions last year during what proved to be an illusionary $54 billion state budget deficit helped fuel his victory over longtime Service Employees International Union Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker. I can guarantee that will never happen with me.” He promised to end the union’s political involvement generally, a step he said is needed to draw support from state employees across the political spectrum. “You can’t unify your union if you’re involved in politics.” Under Walker’s leadership since 2008, the local was a thorn in the side of the state’s last Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, but it negotiated pandemic-driven austerity moves last year with Newsom.
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