Unions Try to Monopolize California's Global Warming Solutions

By Kevin Dayton
10/23/2014
California’s quest to end global climate change is inspiring many obscure, complicated, and costly regulations. And when state executive branch agencies propose new regulations to save the planet, unions are there with their own agendas. California Can’t Let Just Anyone Check Your Dimmer Switches The 2013 revisions to California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards (in the...

TAGS: Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, California Energy Commission, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, University of California Miguel Contreras Labor Program

Ushering in 2014 with Laws that Government Unions and Greens Adore

By Edward Ring
01/07/2014
California’s legislature passed, as usual, hundreds of laws that took effect on January 1st, but two of them are prime examples of how the Golden State has turned its governance over to an alliance of public sector unions, environmentalist extremists, and wealthy elites. Nowhere within this privileged clique is there any recognition of how difficult...

TAGS: California Energy Commission

Did Unions Hasten Demise of California’s Solar Thermal Power Plants?

By Kevin Dayton
07/16/2013
Below is the first organized compilation of documents showing what appears to be an aggressive, deliberate union campaign to impede government approval of solar thermal power projects in California. (Organized documentation of extensive union interference with government approval of more traditional solar photovoltaic power projects in California will be released soon.) These innovative proposed solar...

TAGS: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants, Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, California Energy Commission, California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE), Greenmail, Labor Coalition’s Tactics on Renewable Energy Projects Are Criticized, Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local Union No. 1184

CEQA Debate Rule No. 1: Do NOT Mention Union “Greenmail”

By Kevin Dayton
02/21/2013
“Here’s the plan: pretend that unions aren’t exploiting the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as a tool to obtain labor agreements. Maybe no one will notice.” Supporters and opponents of CEQA reform are straining to avoid this uncomfortable subject as influential Democrats in the California State Senate prepare to introduce an alleged reform of CEQA...

TAGS: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants, Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, California Energy Commission, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE), CEQA Reform, Clark Construction, Corporate campaign, corporate campaigns, Greenmail, Labor Coalition’s Tactics on Renewable Energy Projects Are Criticized, Laborers Union (LIUNA) Local No. 783, Lorena Gonzalez, San Diego Convention Center Expansion, San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council, UNITE HERE Local Union No. 30