
Memo To John Perez: You’re Management Now
Before John Perez was elected to the State Assembly in 1998, he worked professionally for organized labor — unions. According to his own biography…
After attending the University of California at Berkeley, he became active in the labor movement… Prior to his election to the State Assembly, John served as political director for the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 324, and previously served in a similar position for the California Labor Federation.Perez has always had the luxury in his jobs to not have to worry about where money comes from to hire employees and pay their salaries and benefits — that’s the kind of stuff that is on the "management" side of the ledger, not the "labor" side.
Well, Speaker Perez, in case it isn’t lost on you — at some point (probably about the time you got elected to the legislature, but certainly by the time you were sworn in this last March as Speaker) you have to have realized that… Read More