Unions Strive to Elect Friendly Board Members
In 1989, after a bitter teachers' strike, United Teachers of Los Angeles campaigned hard to get four candidates who were sympathetic to the union's views elected to the board of education.
The union's candidates won.
"The message is, 'You better listen to us, or you are in political trouble,''' Wayne Johnson, who was then president of the U.T.L.A., told the Los Angeles Times. "The political strength of...
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