Sacramento – On the largest date of 2026 candidates for governor to date, seven Democrats compete to lead California labor leaders on Monday, promising to support pro-syndicates of housing and infrastructure projects, regulation of artificial intelligence, and jealousy and gonernment.
Through most of the Houlong event, the hundreds of members of the Union within the dance hall of the Sacramento Hotel embraced the promises and pro-labor speeches that dominated the comments of the candidates, thought that an old former Angelesa Angelesa-Forest of Angelesa Angelesa-Forest. Democrats on stage.
Villarigosa was the only candidate to raise objections when asked that he would support to provide inemplexed benefits from the State to the workers on strike, saying that he would go to the action of nature and duration. Governor Gavin Newsom in 2023 vetoed a bill that would have provided that coverage, saying that it would cause the State’s inempleviable fiduciary fund to be “vulnerable to insolvency.”
The event on Monday night was part of a hero of the Legislative Conference of the Federation of Labor Trade Unions of California and the Construction and Construction Commerce Council of the State of California, two of the most influential labor organizations in the state capital.
Villarigosa joined the stage by the former speaker of the State Assembly, Toni Atkins, former Secretary of Health of the United States and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, former representative Katie Porter or Irvine, Supt. Or public instruction Tony Thurmond and former state controller Betty Yee. Everyone is running to replace Newsom, who is fulfilling his second and final mandate as governor.
Through most of the event, the candidates splashed with the questions of themselves, answering with the wave of a red flag by “no” or green flag by “yes”.
The event was not exempt that they are frozen moments, even when the candidates were asked if, as governor, they would be “pragmatic and would stop pointing to the California oil and gas industry so that it endangers the imported energy and force in danger.”
Some of the candidates raised their green flags timidly. The democratic leaders of California, including Newsom and the main state legislators, have been the main defenders of the transition to renewable energies and imposing more restrictions on the oil and gas industry of the State.
“All of us because a clean environment in the future,” Yee said, “but it can’t be behind workers’ backs.”
Villarigosa, in comments after the event, said he challenged the idea of jumping to electrification too fast, which would affect the work of the Union and increase the cost of public services and energy throughout the state.
“Closing the refineries, tells people to get rid of their gas stove and their gas water heater is only Poppycock,” he said.
Lorena González, president of the California Labor Federation, praised Democratic candidates for showing strong support for unionized workers. She hopes that each one is more reception of some fundamental union concerns than Newsom, such as the regulation of artificial intelligence, a great threat to the work of the Union, he said.
“When we are talking about things like regulating AI, we only have a conversation by Gavin Newsom about any regulation, I think that was something key. They all vomited their green flag,” González said.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who is weighing a career for governor, rejected an invitation to address the conference.
The Building and Construction State Council the Council represents hundreds of thousands of workers in the state, including masons, iron and pintos workers, among many others.
The Labor Federation is a formidable power in California’s policy and policy, which is expected to help coordinate the expense of up to $ 40 million by the unions in the elections of next year. The Federation is an umbrella group for approximately 1,300 unions that represent around 2.3 million workers in the public and private sectors.
The organization has backed all the candidates for governor in several previous races, although Villarigosa opposes in the 2005 mayor’s career and supported Newsom in Villarigosa in the 2018 Governor’s career.
The decision of the letter was promoted by the VILLARIGOSA ARC has tasks of its roots as a union leader for a critic of the Union of Los Angeles Teachers and supporter of the Autonomous Schools and the reform of the rules of teachers and tenure.
The Times staff writer, Phil Willon, contributed to this report.
