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    Which Way, L.A.?

    Politics and Labor in an Election Year

    LA’s child of the union movement couldn’t stop a strike today by his own city employees.   The state’s Republican governor defies business to raise minimum wage.   You can’t tell the political players anymore!

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    By Warren Olney • Aug 23, 2006 • 30m Listen

    LA’s child of the union movement couldn’t stop a strike today by his own city employees.The state’s Republican governor defies business to raise minimum wage.You can’t tell the political players anymore!

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      Politics and Labor in an Election Year

      Mayor Villaraigosa may be a child of the union movement, but he couldn't stop today's first strike in a generation by his own city employees. Hundreds of Los Angeles' engineers and architects walked off their jobs today at crime labs, sewage treatment plants, animal shelters and airports.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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