Good Jobs
Deceptive ballot drive to kill the Living Wage!
A misleading campaign has begun for a San Diego ballot measure that would reverse a decade of CPI progress for workers and their families, including the Living Wage Ordinance.
City Councilmember Carl DeMaio, with funding from contractor groups, is collecting signatures for a November ballot initiative that would force privatization of city services and make San Diego the only city in the U.S. to ban Living Wage laws.
AGC lawsuit found baseless, judge rules that PSA does not discriminate against non-union contractors
A Superior Court ruling upholding the legality of the San Diego school district’s Project Stabilization Agreement is a victory for efforts to revive the economy through creation of local jobs.
In a ruling issued December 12, the court held that the PSA, an agreement between San Diego Unified School District and local building trades unions, is legal and is not discriminatory against nonunion contractors. The court flatly rejected a lawsuit filed by the Associated General Contractors of America.
The PSA ensures that the investment of public dollars to build and renovate schools will also create local jobs that that lead to middle-class careers. It includes provisions to place local residents in apprenticeship jobs.
Learning green skills on the path to middle-class careers
New CPI study finds construction training programs key to economic recovery
CPI released a report today linking quality apprenticeship programs in the building trades to the future of California’s green economy and economic recovery.
The report, Construction Apprenticeship Programs: Career Training for California’s Recovery, demonstrates that apprenticeship training is most effective when run collaboratively by labor and management.
Unemployment fluctuates with old and new seekers
According to the California Employment Development Department, the San Diego region reached a historic double-digit inflation rate in June. Although civilian employment, which reflects the jobs in the economy, hardly changed between May and June, the number of unemployed increased 5.1 percent to 158,000.
San Diego is changing! School board chooses community over traditional power interests
“San Diego is changing,” as John Lee Evans told the crowd at the San Diego Unified school board meeting Tuesday night. Developers and builders, accustomed to calling the shots here, are losing their grip in a sea change of increased community involvement and attention to the needs of working people.
Evans and his fellow board members Shelia Jackson and Richard Barrera are part of that change. They voted Tuesday to make sure the money from school construction and renovation bonds stays in the community and gives youth and families in the district a chance at quality jobs with health insurance and stable, middle-class careers.
Our school bonds at work: Local jobs with career paths and healthcare
The San Diego Unified School Board is closing in on a crucial decision, a chance to ensure that the spending of $2.1 billion in bond funds benefits the local economy and local families as much as possible.
On the board’s agenda next Tuesday is a Project Stabilization Agreement (PSA) for school construction and renovation projects funded with Prop S bonds. Approving the negotiated agreement will mean that more of the 10,000 new jobs will:
A Different Relationship
President Obama can and should establish an entirely new framework for our relationship with Mexico.
First, we need to recognize the reality of interdependent national economies, common binational labor and capital markets and interconnected social and family networks.
Second, we need to commit ourselves to overarching goals of creating sustainable economic development that lifts Mexican standards of living and preserves an American middle class.
Stimulus Jobs Should Be Good Jobs
With their eyes on economic recovery, public officials in San Diego and across the state are scrambling to receive and spend federal stimulus dollars. But the spending will not translate into a long-term recovery unless it is invested in rebuilding the foundation of the middle class.
This means good jobs that provide career ladders and health insurance.
Fight the barrage of lies with facts: School board vote is good for San Diego
Building industry interest groups are financing a desperate attack on the San Diego school board, trying to block an important opportunity to create middle-class careers for students and the low-income San Diego communities that need them most.
The democratically elected board members of the San Diego Unified School District had the good business sense to vote to negotiate a Project Stabilization Agreement for all construction projects funded with the $2.1 billion from Proposition S.
