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From CBAs to Shared Prosperity
 CBAs – project based, sometimes redevelopment
areas/multiple projects
 Broadbased agendas
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improve job quality
make sure low-income workers have access to jobs
Affordable housing
Environmental sustainability
Community needs – on-site childcare, public art, youth
programs, parking/traffic
 Maximize government leverage in and get to scale =
need to institutionalize community benefits
Improve the Redevelopment Process
 Get involved in the process earlier
 Make decision-making more transparent: require
data and disclosure
 Two quick examples:
– San Jose Cost benefit analysis
– Oakland Army Base RFP
Require Standards for All Projects
Los Angeles CRA Construction Careers Policy
 Passed Feb 2008, with overwhelming support
 Requires PLA w/local hiring incorporated
 30% of total work hours performed by local
residents, 1/3 of those for hard-to-employ
workers
 Maximize apprenticeship utilization
 Anticipate will cover 15,000 jobs, $170 million in
construction over first 5 years
Leverage More Everywhere
Clean and Safe Ports Campaign
 LA, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, New Jersey
 Truck drivers misclassified as independent
contractors
 Environmental degradation
 Job quality/working poverty
 Campaign: reclassify as employees, upgrade
trucks, establish job quality standards
 Est. 16,800 drivers in LA/Long Beach alone
Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel
Director of Research and Communications
Partnership for Working Families
[email protected]
www.communitybenefits.org