Actors’ Fairness has endorsed Karen Bass for mayor of Los Angeles, marking the primary time the union’s Nationwide Council has ever voted to endorse an L.A. mayoral candidate. The 51,000-member union has greater than 7,000 residing in Los Angeles. If elected, Bass can be town’s first feminine mayor. Polls present her main actual property developer Rick Caruso.
“As Mayor, Karen Bass will combat for reasonably priced housing and good paying union jobs, in order that working individuals have what they should elevate households in Los Angeles,” mentioned Al Vincent Jr., government director of Actors’ Fairness Affiliation. “We look ahead to having an advocate in Metropolis Corridor who prioritizes truthful remedy and pay for arts employees.”
Fairness says its public coverage priorities embrace “defending and defending the best to collectively cut price, a prevailing wage within the arts, racial justice, a robust minimal wage, stronger federal and state arts funding, gun violence prevention, common federal well being care, tax equity and LGBTQ non-discrimination protections.”
