"The labor agreement will span 40 years and covers all of the nearly 70,000 acres (about 110 square miles) owned by California Forever. All infrastructure, public works, major commercial, office, retail, industrial, defense, and energy projects on that land will be "built using union labor through individual Project Labor Agreements." California Forever did not respond to The Reporter's request to review a copy of the agreement before press time."
""For the last 150 years, California has been the place where dreamers and builders came to build the future - and with it, the middle class," Sramek said. "As the grandson of steelworkers and farmworkers, and the son of a mechanic and a school teacher, I could not be more proud of this historic partnership between American business and labor to build the next great American city.""
"Ron Rowlett, former Mayor of Vacaville and Director of Public Relations and Governmental Affairs for the Northern California Carpenters Union, praised the project and the agreement. "This is a project where a worker can start as an apprentice, work their entire career, and retire - all while living in the community they helped build," he said. "This agreement sets a new national gold standard for how private investment and organized labor can work together to build a better future.""
A 40-year construction labor agreement covers nearly 70,000 acres owned by California Forever and requires union labor for all infrastructure, public works, major commercial, office, retail, industrial, defense, and energy projects through individual Project Labor Agreements. California Forever's CEO Jan Sramek said the agreement could revive California's spirit of innovation and renew the middle class, noting his family background in labor. Ron Rowlett of the Northern California Carpenters Union said the project enables careers from apprenticeship through retirement and sets a national gold standard for public-private labor partnerships. An economic analysis found it will create 17,000 direct construction jobs annually while the firm did not provide the agreement for review.
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