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San Diego overlords and unions — who can stop them?

By Don Bauder

San Diego Reader | October 2, 2013

Organized labor does not play as big a role in other cities as it does in San Diego. Heywood Sanders, the nation’s expert on convention centers, says the labor/corporate welfare alliance has so much more clout in San Diego because the city is “politically disorganized and weak.”

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