California: Unions Pump $1 Million into Phone Tax Campaign
According to the LA Daily News:
Organized labor has contributed more than $1 million to help Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa persuade voters to approve a Feb. 5 ballot measure that would maintain the city's telephone utility users tax.
If voters reject the tax, the city could lose as much as $270 million a year currently generated by residential and business telephone calls. Villaraigosa has warned that if the city loses that money, services will be cut and employees could lose jobs.
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Executive Secretary-Treasurer Maria Elena Durazo said unions are bankrolling the campaign because losing the telephone tax would hurt city services and the public employees who provide them...click to continue.
