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Supervisors continue debate on proposed citywide Project Labor Agreement after hours of testimony
Summary
A lengthy June 20 hearing on a proposed citywide Project Labor Agreement (PLA) produced broad agreement on several definitions but sharp public division between labor unions and many LBEs; supervisors introduced negotiated amendments and continued the measure for further negotiation and a future committee hearing.
San Francisco supervisors on Wednesday spent most of their Government Audit and Oversight Committee meeting on a proposed citywide Project Labor Agreement, introducing negotiated amendments but stopping short of a final vote after hours of public testimony.
The ordinance, as amended in recent negotiations described by City Administrator Naomi Kelly and Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Safaie and Katy (Feuer), would require a PLA for covered improvement projects above a negotiated threshold and sets the PLA to include the Equal Benefits Ordinance and existing local-hire requirements. Kelly told the committee the parties had agreed on a working definition of “core employees,” that cost would be interpreted as construction cost only, and that the building trades would provide an…
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