She was the executive director of the labor union United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council. “I felt like there were a lot of people who came over from D.C. in the Obama White House and had ideas about how tech should operate in California,” Parrish said. Over the next few months, there were endless bargaining sessions, television appearances and court fights. “I found him to be very thoughtful, and very genuinely interested in what’s best for workers,” Parrish said. The post They Fell in Love Across Two Sides of a Bargaining Table appeared first on New York Times.