African-American voters, Westside Jewish liberals, corporate downtown interests, and organized labor have formed the Mayor Tom Bradley coalition in the city of Los Angeles from 1973 through 1989. Although widespread attention has been given the other coalition sectors, little attention has been given to the relationship between Bradley and the city's trade-union movement. A major contention in this article is that discussions and analyses of Bradley and the city's politics from 1973 through 1989 have been incomplete because they have ignored labor as an influential coalition partner and player.
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