California’s comeback from the brink of financial ruin during the Great Recession is one of the greatest success stories in a generation. While states like Kansas and Wisconsin responded to budgetary uncertainty by cutting education funding with disastrous results, California voters took a different approach, enacting Prop 30 in 2012 to boost school funding to shrink class sizes, hire teachers, bolster community colleges and fund children’s health care.

Proposition 59 gives voters a chance to tell their own member of Congress to get big money out of politics and support an amendment to the United States Constitution to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Similar measures have passed in Colorado and Montana by three-to-one margins.

Too good to be true?  Probably is.  Proposition 54 is another example of the adage.  Pledging to bring more transparency to the legislative process, this proposition simply provides another tool for moneyed interests to stop progressive policies in California.  Sponsored by billionaire Charles Munger and wealth manager (and former legislator) Sam Blakslee, this Constitutional Amendment would require all legislation to be in print for 72 hours prior to being voted on.  Any interest could sue

Help the labor friendly candidates and show support for labor friendly legislation by volunteering to work the phones.
Phone Banking will take place this Thursday and will begin at 4pm at Local 80.
Time:        4pm to 8pm
Location: 2520 W. Olive Ave. Burbank, CA 91505
 

On October 1 – 2 and 15 -16, we’re hosting our next battleground trips to Nevada to help elect Hillary Clinton for President. Come join the Los Angeles Labor Movement as we knock on doors to ensure workers win in November.