The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California as unions nationwide face threats to their clout.
UMass Memorial Medical Center and the union representing 1,100 nurses at its University Campus reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract late Wednesday night, averting a strike that had been scheduled to start Thursday.
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