Villaraigosa's school reform efforts cost him little labor backing
As he takes on United Teachers Los Angeles, he retains much support so far from other unions, which see a basic difference in the issues.
 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa meets with Caroll Turner, who has a fourth-grader at McKinley Elementary in Compton, at a press conference where he voiced his support for the effort to make McKinley a charter school. (Al Seib, Los Angeles Times / December 10, 2010) |
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A mayor with deep roots in the labor movement now finds himself denounced in some quarters as a turncoat — a description he calls absurd.
"No one buys that turncoat stuff," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the other day at a union-sponsored event in Watts. "But I am challenging orthodoxies in a way that we have to."
The mayor's recent branding of United Teachers Los Angeles, the L.A. teachers union, as "one unwavering roadblock" to his effort to reform public schools has raised ire in organized labor circles
"No one buys that turncoat stuff," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the other day at a union-sponsored event in Watts. "But I am challenging orthodoxies in a way that we have to."
The mayor's recent branding of United Teachers Los Angeles, the L.A. teachers union, as "one unwavering roadblock" to his effort to reform public schools has raised ire in organized labor circles
