Once they realized we had the votes, they decided to come our way and seek peace. The argument used was, in 1994 California Labor stood by while Prop. 187 was passsed. This was a right wing assault on mostly Mexican immigrants. This was a right wing assault on the civil rights and women's movement. Since labor did not respond in any reasonable way while others were targeted from the far right, they have created a situation where they too are isolated.
Labor has to learn to take up the struggles of people of color and immigrant communities.
These are now labor's base. We offered to work together with labor. Further, we will not help on their initiative unless they help on ours. Testimony by several labor activists helped our efforts.