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Article: Labor's losses sweeping, not total: WORKER-FRIENDLY POLICIES UNLIKELY TO BE ROLLED BACK.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2006
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Byline: Phil Yost
Nov. 12--A thousand labor volunteers hit the sidewalks. Hundreds of thousands of union dollars flowed in to pay for brochures and get out the vote. In Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez, organized labor -- a traditional powerhouse in San Jose politics -- had a candidate for San Jose mayor it loved like none before.
She lost in a rout.
Instead, voters elected Councilman Chuck Reed by 60 percent to 40 percent. Of the five major candidates who began the race last winter, he was the one most critical of labor's power in local politics. And the mayoral results were no anomaly: In races this year to fill three San Jose council seats, all the ...