Tuberculosis screening bill turns into union labor bill
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Posted: Saturday, September 24, 2011 12:00 am
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Updated: 7:00 am, Sat Sep 24, 2011.
Tuberculosis screening bill turns into union labor bill
One of the worst "gut and amend" bills created and railroaded
through the California State Legislature during its shameful last
week of the 2011 session was Senate Bill 922, a bill that crushes
local government decisions concerning taxpayer-funded public works
contracts.
At the direction of State Senate President pro Tempore Darrell
Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez, Senate Bill 922 changed
from a bill about tuberculosis screening to a bill that gives
unions greater control over taxpayer-funded construction.
The bill deprives local governments of their authority to enact
and maintain "Fair and Open Competition" policies that ban
requirements for cities and counties to sign union Project Labor
Agreements.
Senate Bill 922 nullifies some of these local policies and also
cuts off state funding for certain cities that have such
policies.
For example, the bill cuts off state funding for construction in
the city of Fresno. To preserve that funding, the Fresno City
Council will be compelled to repeal its Fair and Open Competition
policy, which has been in the city's municipal code since 2000.
Senate Bill 922 would nullify Stanislaus County's Fair and Open
Competition policy and discourage San Joaquin or Fresno counties
from enacting such a policy.
Senate Bill 922 is sponsored by the State Building and
Construction Trades Council, an umbrella lobbying group for
construction trade unions (such as the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers and the State Pipe Trades Council).
Fax Gov. Jerry Brown at 916-558-3160. Ask him to veto SB922.
Nicole Goehring
Government Affairs Director and Lodi resident
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Updated: 7:00 am.
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Ron Werner posted at 11:56 am on Sun, Sep 25, 2011.
Cal Trans saved $400 million on the new SF bay bridge by using Chinese materials
and not paying the high cost of union made products.
It's ok for the state to use low cost foreign labor but it requires local governments to use high cost union labor. What hypocrisy our democrat leaders are showing us.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/20/san-francisco-oakland-bay-bridge-controversially-made-in-china/
Darrell Baumbach posted at 6:31 am on Sat, Sep 24, 2011.
One more anti-friendly anti-business nail in the California economic coffin. I would be
very surprised if the godfather of unions (Brown) vetoed this bill. Democrats are rarely for freedom of choice. ( except when it comes to abortion)
We will see.