A major union representing Los Angeles carpenters announced on Monday its endorsement for LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman — changing its support after it had previously endorsed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in 2022.<\/p>\n
Western States Carpenters, which represents 60,000 carpenters, announced it\u2019s backing the councilmember who is looking to unseat Bass. In a press conference to announce the endorsement, Raman took the opportunity to address housing affordability.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to see cranes rising all over the city of Los Angeles,\u201d the mayoral hopeful said. \u201cI want to see well-paid union workers breaking ground on tens of thousands of new homes near transit and jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the mayor was in Koreatown on Monday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the development of a 19-unit affordable housing project for veterans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis development is amazing,\u201d Bass said. \u201cTo do it with the neighbors, to do it with the community is the best way housing gets built.\u201d<\/p>\n
The project was the direct result of the mayor\u2019s first executive directive to fast-track the development of affordable housing. However, Bass chose not to include a provision that would require union wages for construction workers after advisors informed her that it would increase costs by up to 20%. It\u2019s for that reason the carpenters\u2019 union said it switched its support.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that Los Angeles needs to be built; we get it,\u201d said Pete Rodriguez, Vice President of United Brotherhood of Carpenters. \u201cThe plan that was put in place left workers out of the equation.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement, a campaign spokesperson for Bass noted that she has an overwhelming amount of support from labor unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major union representing Los Angeles carpenters announced on Monday its endorsement for LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[38024,48,52,51,47,50,49,13],"class_list":["post-423437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-decision-2026","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}