A longtime labor rights expert has rescinded his endorsement of Los Angeles City Council candidate Danielle Sandoval, saying he advised her nearly two months ago that she needed to resolve wage theft claims targeting her restaurant.
Victor Narro, who teaches labor studies at UCLA, said he urged Sandoval on Aug. 5 to contact the Wage Justice Center, a nonprofit group that has been trying to collect money owed to former employees of Caliente Cantina, a restaurant that Sandoval opened in San Pedro in 2014 and later closed.
Narro, who sits on the Wage Justice Center’s board, said he withdrew his endorsement Friday, after The Times reported that wage cases involving four of the restaurant’s workers are still outstanding — seven years after the state’s labor commissioner ruled in their favor. He called that article the “tipping point.”
“I cannot endorse a candidate that engages in wage theft and then doesn’t do anything to address it,” he said in an interview. “She hasn’t stepped up to take responsibility.”
Narro is not the only Sandoval supporter to pull back. On Tuesday, the political action committee known as California Women’s List confirmed that it had withdrawn its endorsement. On Wednesday, the political group Fund Her said it has also pulled its support.
Neither group would provide details. But a third organization, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles Action Fund, said recent coverage of the four wage theft cases spurred its board to review its...
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