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Labor's feeling chill on Davis But can labor afford to maintain its support? Contreras said among the questions cash-strapped union officials will ponder at their convention is, "How much resources are we going to have?" During a conference call Wednesday with reporters, Pulaski said the California Labor Federation is prepared to spend more than $4 million on campaign materials and manpower to defeat the recall. But like the 335,000-member California Teachers Association, the federation has declined so far to commit money directly to Davis' campaign. After unveiling the Stand for California coalition's anti-recall campaign plan, Pulaski said he did not mention the governor by name because the recall "is not about the governor." "We believe it's about the people who from the beginning have been behind the recall, who financed the recall, which would never have happened if it really had been a populist grass-roots movement," Pulaski said. Pulaski blamed anti-labor proponents for the election and defended the governor's record. "He signed into law a number of bills that we found important -- a number of things that the previous governor, Pete Wilson, had really stripped away from workers," Pulaski said. Wilson is co-chairman of Schwarzenegger's campaign, and Pulaski provided a glimpse of labor's anti-Schwarzenegger strategy by pointing out their relationship. "(Wilson) now seems to be vigorously behind a candidate in this recall," he said, noting that several of Wilson's former aides are also working for Schwarzenegger. The Stand for California coalition includes the California NAACP, the California Alliance of Retired Americans and the California chapter of the National Organization for Women.
Among the other members are the Consumer Attorneys of California, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, and the Sierra Club of California.
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