Union Environmental Appeal of San Jose Infill High-Rise Fools No One

By Kevin Dayton
08/13/2013
Today (Tuesday, August 13, 2013) construction trade unions either showed exceptional arrogance or exceptional foolishness when they chose to exploit the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) against a high-profile “infill” project in downtown San Jose. For the past few years, some California state legislators have wanted to discourage CEQA actions meant to advance objectives unrelated...

TAGS: Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), CEQA Reform, Chuck Reed, Darrell Steinberg, San Jose mayor Chuck Reed, Santa Clara-San Benito Building and Construction Trades Council

Collect Them All: Environmental Objections of California Unions in 2013

By Kevin Dayton
06/25/2013
Attendees of the annual leftist “Netroots Nation” conference in San Jose, California on June 20-23, 2013 had ample opportunities to learn how to use the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to advance the labor union political agenda. They could have attended a June 22 panel (CEQA: An Example of Linking Environmental and Labor Movements) on how...

TAGS: Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE), Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local Union No. 1184, Laborers Union (LIUNA) Local No. 783, Santa Clara-San Benito Building and Construction Trades Council

Opponents of CEQA Reform Cite New Study with Union Connections

By Kevin Dayton
03/12/2013
A broad coalition opposing any changes to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) held a press conference today (March 12, 2013) that included the findings of a newly-released study, The Economic and Environmental Impact of the California Environmental  Quality Act. The study was written by a University of Utah professor with a long history of academic...

TAGS: Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, Are Charter Cities Taking Advantage of State Mandated Construction Wage Rate ("Prevailing Wage") Exemptions?, Bob Balgenorth, California Constitution, California Construction Industry Labor-Management Cooperative Trust, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE), Charter Cities, Greenmail, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Jerry Brown, Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978, Santa Clara-San Benito Building and Construction Trades Council, State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, The Effect of Prevailing Wage Regulations on Contractor Bid Participation and Behavior: A Comparison of Palo Alto California with Four Nearby Prevailing Wage Municipalities, University of California Miguel Contreras Labor Program

Advancing the Union Agenda: A More Mundane Silicon Valley Ambition

By Kevin Dayton
11/12/2012
As reported over the past few months in www.UnionWatch.org, almost all of the sixteen community college districts within 50 miles of San Francisco have succumbed to the union political agenda and now require their construction contractors to sign a Project Labor Agreement with trade unions as a condition of working on taxpayer-funded projects. And unions are busy...

TAGS: Ohlone Community College District, Project Labor Agreements, Santa Clara-San Benito Building and Construction Trades Council

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Lights, Camera, Growth: How Paramount’s Bet on 30 Films a Year Could Propel California’s Economy

California’s entertainment industry doesn’t need another taxpayer-backed “rescue” from Sacramento. It needs the freedom to experiment, compete and succeed without politicians inserting themselves into the middle of the process. In this new California Policy Center report, Lights, Camera, Growth: How Paramount’s Bet on 30 Films a Year Could Propel California’s Economy, economist Jeff Ferry analyzes...

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