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Supervisors, labor and community groups press America's Cup authority for stronger local-hire and prevailing-wage guarantees
Summary
Officials and dozens of public speakers debated the America—s Cup workforce and small-business inclusion plan; staff outlined LBE goals and local-hire targets while labor and community groups urged mandatory application of the City—s local-hire ordinance and stronger enforcement than —good-faith— steps.
San Francisco supervisors, labor unions and community organizations on Feb. 6 pressed the America—s Cup Event Authority to make stronger, enforceable commitments to hire city residents and to guarantee prevailing wages across work tied to the event.
Supervisor John Avalos opened the hearing saying the goal is to extend San Francisco—s local-hire principles to the America's Cup and to ensure the event delivers meaningful jobs and contracting opportunities to city residents. City project staff and the Event Authority described a detailed workforce development and small-business inclusion plan but emphasized much of the plan relies on contract terms and monitoring rather than statutory application of the local-hire law.
Mike Martin, America's Cup project director for the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, said the event presents significant economic opportunity beyond construction, including vendor and sponsorship opportunities, and praised the Event Authority—s outreach efforts. Dr. Laura Lester, a consultant to the Event Authority, said the plan sets minimum goals of 25% local-business enterprise (LBE) participation for construction…
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