Gov.'s Healthcare Summit Reveals Union Divisions - By Joe Mathews, Los Angeles Times
Outside, the California Nurses Assn. ran a picket line of 40 people. "Any union leader that crosses is a scab," said Rose Ann DeMoro, the union's executive director.
The head of the California Labor Federation, Art Pulaski, recalled last year's fight with Schwarzenegger over his special election and denounced the governor for not doing more to provide health coverage to Californians.
Inside, the national presidents of three prominent unions — the Service Employees International Union, the United Farm Workers and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America — took seats around a long table with the 50 summit participants, and thanked the governor for convening the session.