How Brown, union agreed on new tax hike proposal

The governor feared that his plan would fail if the two competing measures appeared on the ballot. The California Federation of Teachers had sought talks since November.

On the morning of March 10, Assembly Speaker John P�rez sat down to breakfast at Figaro Bistro in Los Feliz with Joshua Pechthalt, the president of the California Federation of Teachers. The speaker was engaged in a final round of shuttle diplomacy, trying to broker a compromise between the union and Gov. Jerry Brown that could avoid dueling tax measures on the November ballot.

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