For months the leadership of City Hall's Engineers and Architects Association has been chasing Mayor Villaraigosa around the city—literally. They show up to disrupt his events and media appearances. Today, EAA's executive director Robert Aquino emails, he and three other union officials were handcuffed and arrested in the City Council chambers while 350 members chanted "equal pay for equal work" during the Villaraigosa photo-op for the film Crash. According to Aquino, they were charged with unlawful assembly and released. The union is unhappy that its members have not received the large raises given to many Department of Water and Power workers.
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