![]() ![]() It certainly makes it harder to paint bill supporters as anti-labor - a phrase that amounts to slander for politicians in deep blue California.ĮRIN LEHANE, LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR, BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL The California Labor Federation, which represents more than 1 million members including the Trades, said they “stand in strong solidarity” with the Trades.Īfter several years of gridlock, the rare split within the construction unions presents both an awkward conundrum and a potential for compromise on a proposal that would free up swaths of land for development of affordable housing. While the state’s Conference of Carpenters, which represents about 82,000 workers, co-sponsored the bill, the Building and Construction Trades Council - an umbrella labor group known colloquially as “the Trades” and spanning almost half a million workers in nearly every other construction industry - remains vehemently opposed. The men and women in hard hats, however, were carpenters, and so represented something previous bills didn’t have: Support from both developers and some construction unions.īut despite the neon flashes in a sea of suits, the impasse is far from over.įollowing the carpenters, a parade of electricians, pipe-fitters, ironworkers and drywallers - wearing union logos but no hard hats - stepped up to the microphone to voice their disapproval. The bill, introduced by Assembly Housing Chair Buffy Wicks, mirrors multiple bills that died in recent years as a result of squabbling between developers and labor unions. But it has quickly become one of the most hotly contested bills in the California Legislature because the labor requirements on those projects satisfy some but not most unions. ![]() The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act would allow developers to fast-track local approval to build affordable housing where offices, strip malls and parking lots sit right now. More than two dozen men and women clad in hard hats and safety vests filed into a crowded hearing room April 27 to cheer on yet another bill trying to solve California’s housing crisis. ![]()
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