The union withholding help from Newsom + John Cox jumps the bear + 'Rape is rape' bill on pause
Sacramento Bee
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Andrew Sheeler and Lara Korte, The Sacramento Bee
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CAL FIRE UNION 'NEUTRAL' ON RECALL
The president of California's state firefighter union was notably absent from a press conference Tuesday in Sacramento during which two firefighter labor organizations announced they would support Gov. Gavin Newsom in the upcoming recall election.
Tim Edwards, president of Cal Fire Local 2881, said he's not ready just yet to throw his support behind the governor who, along with the Legislature, cut the pay of his roughly 6,000 members by 7.5% last summer and has shown little urgency in restoring it even as the state's projected budget surplus grows.