A project labor agreement sets wages and rules for contractors on city projects. Some cities work out PLAs on a project-by-project basis, but Mayor Todd Gloria wants one consistent set of rules.
Big changes that favor labor unions could be coming soon to large municipal construction projects built by the city of San Diego, such as fire stations, libraries, sewer pipelines and bridges.
This month or next, officials plan to present the City Council with a potential framework that could include proposed hiring rules and how small a project would need to be for an exemption from the PLA — probably less than $1 million. “Our members are well-trained and very good at what they do,” said Carol Kim, who will help negotiate San Diego’s citywide PLA as leader of the San Diego Building and Construction Trades Council.Supporters say many millions could be lost, but opponents say that’s an overblown concern
Critics say PLAs make projects more expensive by shrinking the number of contractors willing to submit bids, reducing flexibility for contractors and creating confusion between them and workers that slows projects down. Supporters and opponents of PLAs poured millions into the campaigns for and against Measure D, which voters approved by a margin of more than 15 percentage points.
“They duped the public,” said Abdur-Rahim Hameed, chief executive of the Black Contractors Association of San Diego. “There was never any indication they would do a citywide PLA if voters removed the ban.”
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