Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera offered his resignation with the federation’s executive board, according to two sources close to the situation.
Facing outrage over a controversial leaked audio recording with top L.A. city officials, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera offered his resignation at a Monday night meeting with the federation’s executive board, which accepted, according to two sources close to the situation.
The sources requested anonymity to describe sensitive internal matters. One source said that the organization would make a formal statement Tuesday. Herrera — along with Los Angeles City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo — participated in an October 2021 closed-door conversation where Martinez said a white councilmember handled his young Black son as though he were an “accessory” and described Councilmember Mike Bonin’s son as “Other racist and derogatory remarks were made during the conversation, which largely focused on the city’s once-every-decade redistricting process and preserving and maintaining Latino...
The email from the state federation’s leader, Gonzalez Fletcher, stressed that the county federation was distinct from and separate from the state-level federation.
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