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Pasco council weighs community workforce agreements for city projects amid split on costs and local hiring
Summary
Council heard staff outline community workforce agreements (CWAs) and project labor agreements (PLAs), including tradeoffs: potential local hiring and apprenticeship benefits versus higher costs, reduced competition and administrative burdens. Labor representatives urged adoption; council directed staff to return with more analysis and outreach.
Director Sarah briefed the council on project labor agreements (PLAs) and community workforce agreements (CWAs), explaining that Pasco already requires prevailing wages and apprenticeship utilization on many public projects but that CWAs could strengthen local hiring targets and training goals. She described how federal funding may be incompatible with some PLA clauses and warned of administrative…
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