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  • CALIFORNIA: It's déjà vu on state's big issue

    09/26/2010 9:12:02 AM PDT · by SmithL · 9 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 9/26/10 | Dan Walters
    California's most enduring political battle is over whether its relatively high living costs and taxes and dense regulatory thicket make it uncompetitive in a global economy – or, as one blue-ribbon state commission put it in the 1990s, have become a "job-killing machine." The clash plays itself out in the Capitol each year as labor, environmental, consumer and other groups sponsor dozens of bills that business groups label "job killers" and try, usually successfully, to block. But the debate began three-plus decades ago when, after a string of overtly pro-business governors, a young Jerry Brown won the office and appointed...
  • California labor leader Jack Henning dies at 93

    06/05/2009 6:08:13 AM PDT · by calcowgirl · 7 replies · 406+ views
    Associated Press (via google) ^ | June 5, 2009 | Judy Lin
    <p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Jack Henning, a pioneering leader of California's labor movement who served under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, has died at his home in San Francisco. He was 93.</p> <p>Henning served 26 years as executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, which represents more than 2 million workers.</p>