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Someone helped me connect the dots earlier this month.” All you have to do is look close and listen to the recording I just received of LA Fed President Ron Herrera and Nury Martinez (no relation, lol). “The labor movement is in bed with City Hall.

“When you actually hear it, it’s unbelievable,” the poster wrote. 19, an anonymous user created a Reddit account called Honest-Finding-1581 and posted a screed in the popular r/LosAngeles forum titled “LA County Federation of Labor” that mentioned the surreptitious recording. In their work, Martinez, Cedillo and De León were frequent allies and all three came under sharp criticism from the city’s left on homelessness and other issues. In the interim, the council carried out a contentious redistricting process and voted on several hotly disputed matters, including banning homeless encampments near schools. However the recording was made and wherever it was stored, it stayed out of public view until last month. Asked whether the federation knew whether the recording had been done by using a phone or some other method, the spokeswoman gave a one-word answer: “No.” Though the organization vowed to affiliates that it would seek prosecution of the perpetrators, a spokeswoman said Wednesday that the organization has not reported the taping to law enforcement. The federation declined to make officials available for an interview. “Many private and confidential conversations in private offices and conference rooms at the LA Fed have been illegally recorded in violation of California privacy and recording laws,” the memo said. and neighboring municipalities with large Latino populations. At the start of the highly sensitive discussions, the politicians and Herrera spoke calmly about their shared view that Black voters were overrepresented in L.A. On the day that the three politicians visited, the council was poised to take up an issue of unparalleled importance to its members: the redrawing of council district boundaries with its attendant ability to make or end political careers.

Karen Bass in her mayoral bid by making phone calls to potential voters. The federation can mobilize large numbers of union members to pitch in for candidates and is currently helping U.S. Woods Boulevard to seek favors from labor unions and arrange campaign help. County Federation, an umbrella group for 300 labor unions and 800,000 workers that wields tremendous and sometimes controversial sway in the city.ĭemocratic politicians routinely visit the offices of “the Fed” on James M. What is clear is that whoever made the recording had access to the inner sanctum of one of the most powerful organized labor groups in the nation.