The City of Los Angeles has passed a landmark project labor agreement covering construction through the Community Redevelopment Agency. The City Council voted unanimously to adopt the language. Members of the Building Trades, many of whom were wearing their hard hats packed the Council Chambers. Every Council person took the opportunity to congratulate the great work of all the union as well as community groups that worked together to get it passed. After the successful vote a victory luncheon was held in the Tom Bradley Penthouse atop City Hall. Maria Elena Durazo of the LA County Federation of Labor introduced the various stakeholders and participants who worked so tirelessly to bring this measure to fruition. After lunch Mayor Villaraigosa held a press conference on the West Lawn with members of the Building Trades holding signs and banners as a backdrop. Then it was off to the LA County Fed for a Victory BBQ. This has been a great week for Labor!
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It seems odd to be doing these deals when the market is tanking. I hope it's in anticipation of some government spending to fix our infrastructure. They talk about maintaining wage levels, but, I suspect that wages will drop as unemployment increases. People will be happy to have a decent job fixing our old infrastructure.
this policy sounds fishy to me.Ivr already noticed some strange things stemming from it. But I jusy heard about it so Ill be looking into it further.
Im not sold on this new policy. Im being told that people cant work at several los angeles job sites because of there zip code. basically your supposed to be a resident of LA or close by to be able to work on those jobsites. Im a member of local 105. many guys have been on the out of work list for a very long time. As a result they have lost their homes etc.they dont live in la county. but guys that just got on the out of work list arent even home long enough to apply for unemployment.they live close to la or in la.So why is it they get to work when weve got guys with families starving because there is no work in there area.There is definitely something wrong with this picture.I dont know all the details about this yet as I just heard about all this.But trust and believe ill be looking into it further.
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