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Local Firing Begins in Long Beach
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| Mar 02, 2010 |
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Monday, March 1st, the Long Beach Port Commissioners led by Mayor Bob Foster enacted a Project Labor Agreement on the Middle Port Project. While the Big Labor bosses spoke about all of the jobs this would bring to Long Beach no one mentioned the quiet clause in the agreement that caps the number of current construction employees that can be used on a project at "10 core employees." "Core employees" are defined as those who have "appeared on the Contractors active payroll for 60 of the 100 days before award of the construction contract." Those qualifying must also live in Orange or Los Angeles Counties. After the contractor exhausts his limit of 10 they must obtain additional employees from union hiring halls where everyone must go in order to obtain work, even those who do not wish to join the union.
The pretense that this agreement will mean more jobs in Long Beach is false. PLAs actually create a revolving door. Current employees are forced to leave while union employees are escorted in. As 85% of construction employees are not members of union many Long Beach families will suffer under this new union exclusive agreement. |
| -Jackie Nutting, Associated Builders and Contractors- Southern California |
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