Members of the Los Angeles Engineers and Architects Assn., whose 8,000 members have been without a contract for almost two years, disrupted a speech by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last week, loudly complaining that he is shortchanging them while giving workers at the Department of Water and Power a bigger raise. The union said it intends to continue to pressure Villaraigosa, a former union organizer far more accustomed to picketing than to being on the receiving end of union protest.
See "Villaraigosa Is on Receiving End of Labor Strife", Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times, February 26, 2006