Huge Concord project blows up over union labor agreement

Guess they don't really want to develop that land then. Fine. Someone else will. I've watched this play out over 50 years in California. It all gets built. Lennar could have made a profit if they wanted to do it. They'll do something else now, and another company will do it.

I totally back the NON-public employee unions. And unless you really think cities in the third world are just beautiful, you should back them as well. Time to slaughter some hogs.

Union's have been a vital part of northern California for a very long time. That said, they (Union Leadership) have at times overstepped their rolls by demanding too much. It is a mixed bag between union power and developers' rights to have a union-free job site. There is a compromise somewhere in the middle. I was a union member for many years and found them to be very controlling of both the membership and the employers. Once I was told by the union if I did vote for a democrat for president I could not work on a union job anymore. Those days of union control are over but still, it shows that unions can be overbearing. Let's hope the project will get off the ground thus providing jobs for many companies and workers. It can't be all one-sided.

Project Labor agreement protect the enduser by assuring a baseline skill level for craft workers.
Also protects the community by assuring workers are paid a living wage.

I'll note that there was already a labor agreement, just not one that covered every job.

And it's a real shame, as the result is fewer jobs during an economic recovery and fewer homes near jobs.

"Let's make homes more expensive by using labor union labor."

Said every Democrat in California.

@Dewey

Did you mean to say: “Once I was told by the union if I did vote for a democrat for president I could not work on a union job anymore." In the past, the Democrats cozied up to the unions, maybe not so much now because they have become elitist and subservient to Wall Street.

I retired from the chemical industry 2005. Soon after I retired, I was recruited to a management position for a chemical manufacturing company. I remained in that position Until January 2011.

I was absolutely disgusted and appalled with the petty BS grievances that arrived on my desk on a daily basis. The intelligent quotient of those filing grievances were that of an eight year old.

The grievances consisted of wanting to go to the bathroom, to not having enough time for lunch, although union leadership signed off on and agreed to thirty minute lunch breaks, twenty minute breaks twice daily for eight hour shift.

Once OSHA was formed, Unions became unnecessary, especially Federal Employee Unions.

Eliminate them all.

As long as the Democrats control the Legislature in Sacramento, we are stuck with bloated Union Labor demands. Unions dictate rather than negotiate. Larger union wages = greater campaign contributions for the Democratic Party. SEIU, Teachers Unions, Teamsters, AFL-CIO, Building Trades Unions, etc. etc.

VIVA UNIONS! UNIONS FOREVER!

hmmmmmmmmmm.....i just don't understand why so many simple folks are against union...my my my

Many years ago I knew individuals who worked at a site that sold baked ham and honey was burned onto the ham with torches. The workers were NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE TOILET BREAKS. I advised them to quit their jobs, they were given time off by the docs to relax, and toua focus on finding another job, etc.

If you're unhappy with a Union, take a leap into your private cesspool...i rest my case...tee hee

Union wages let workers live in or near the communities where they work. The bay area elite would prefer the workers live somewhere else because they don't want to live next door to a lowlife construction worker. (FYA- it is possible to get a full fledged college degree just as good as yours thru an apprentice program.

Don't believe me ,contact any United Association Plumber's & Steamfitter's local union)

Home prices do not have to rise when using union labor. Builders just need to accept lower profits. Call it sharing the wealth.

Find out where the owners of non-union construction companies live as compared to where their employees live.

Look, I understand where unions can and have been useful - the Amazon situation being a key one.

But "Builders just need to accept lower profits."
That's just not how this works. Unions doing one-off project demands is not going to force lower profit demands, it will just delay projects until a certain market condition will result in housing costs high enough.

You want to actually share the wealth, you need to do it at a much higher level than making a flimsy CEQA objection to one project at a time.

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I'm all for profit but it's 2020 and multi-millions of Americans are out of work with not much hope to work again...soon.

Fortunately, there are millions and millions of concerned Americans with the goal of helping fellow Americans. We are all witnessing what it truly means to be AMERICAN! Most Americans are NOT DRIVEN BY GREED/PROFIT.

The housing ear healthy findustry will survive. I strongly support affordable housing with the goal of placing homeless people in shelters where they can receive shelter, medical care, and healthy food. There are also thousands and thousands of homeless children who also need medical and psychiatric care, safe housing, and food.

I strongly support meeting the needs of poor and working class children and families.

Correction: The housing industry will survive.