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Minimum. Wage- G.Athers Steam Page 3 c-FL) See Minimum. Wage- G.athers Steam Page 3 Back Off,Pt!NBIn r Trades Take on the Governor Check By JACK HENNING Executive Secretary-Treasurer California Labo6r Federation, AFL-CIO AFL-CIO President John Sweeney last week issued a call to arms to the faithful. On March 25 in Washington, D.C., labor will draft a grass roots legislative and political program, approve a special per capita increase for a 12-month period, and endorse for the U.S. presidency. It is the endorsement that will stir the blood and assure full attendance. Bill Clinton should win in a walk, but no blank check, please. hndeed, this very month AFL-CIO headquarters noted that the U.S. trade balance with Mexico continues in a downward plunge. The North American Free Trade Agreement has meant predicted decline for U.S. workers. Bill Clinton wouldn't listen.. Labor had warned that U.S. capital would ravage Mexican workers for.the profit -of corporate barons. It was.painfully clear that our companies below the border would produce cheap and sell high on the Amer- ican market The American consumer would. pay the same high price for the low wage auto as for one -manufactured in Detroit. A-corporate goldmine. Unfortunately, in the -fierce NAFIA debates of 1993 the president employed raw political patronage to mus- clehisway Over 15,000 building trades workers besieged the state capitol Feb., 14. Twice this month, California's this requirement to base the average building trades workers rose to..chal- on union and non-union scales. The The federal government relates 17,000 US. jobs lost lenge the wage-cutting plans of govemnor's proposal would inaugu- per one billion doliars in trade deficit This means that Governor Pete Wilson. First 15,000 rate massive cutthroat competition NAFITA stole 244,800 from American workers in carpenters, ironworkers, operating among contractors, pitting Califor- jobs engineers,) laborers, electricians, nia wages against much lower. rates the first -eleven months of 1995. No thanks, Mr. Presi- plumbers, and other allied. trades paid by out-of-state contractors.. In dent. C.. workers descended on the state capi- November, San Francisco Superior tol Feb. 14. Then, less than two Court Judge Wfliam Cahill told We are certain that labor's high command will come weeks* later, over 20,000 virtually Wilson to hold hearings on the to precise understandings with the president prior to shut. down southern* California con- impact of his proposed change endorsement struction on Feb. 26, as they massed before implementing it s- in front of the* state building in Los IBob Balgenorth, head of Califor- Angeles.- nia's Building and Construction The president should be informed that the wounds of Both demonstrations targeted Trades Council, told the Sacramento NAFI7A were stiil open- to mlin ofAmerican workers Wilson's announced intention to rally that the change would lower in the-disastrous November elections of .1994. Blind abolish the state's prevailing wage the average yearly income of a Cali- political devotioAt is not a worker habit- requirement Current state regula- fornia construction~ worker from tions require the state to base the $28,000 to $22,000. He mentioned Admittedly, during the past year the president has wages- paid on state building pro- two studies which found that instead stood for labor. We want more of that jects on the union scale prevailing in of saving money on construction strong each trade. Wilson would change (Continued on Page 2) I Streets were blocked off at Broadway and First in downtown Los Angeles for a massive Thades workers marched down Sacramento's capitol mail with Jack Henning,'I turnout of constructionBackOl...Saiworkers, protesting Gov. Wilson's attack on prevailing wages. :ramento.JanitorsSois, union leaders, and public officials walking arm-in-arm to save prevailing, (ContinuedfJtom Page 1) us in Congress in DC. We need rep- costs, abolishing prevailing wage resentatives of the working people."i resulted in In Los Angeles., Dick Slawson, Union requirements actually Company com- executive secretary -of the Defyf poorer quality and delays in pleting projects. LA/Orange -County Building and Sacramento janitors4, angry over Somers managers then claimed that in Los Angeles, Doral Building The Sacramento rally was pre- Construction Trades Council, told a illegal union-busting by one of the they.had recognized Local 1 after a Maintenance, in the 1980s, before ceded by a march of thousands up cheering crowd that he would carry city's major building service con- voluntary card check. After five Justice for Janitors forced the com- the Capitol Mall, headed by leading a message into the hearing. 'Tens of tractors, took to the streets Feb. 28. hours of so-called negotiations, pany to sign a union agreement. officers of state building- trades thousands of workers and their fam- A hundred, mostly-immigrant jani- Local I. signed a 3-year contract LastApril Florea called a meeting of unions, California Labor Federation ilies," he said, "won't allow Wilson -tors marched to the State Board of with no raises.. major San Francisco building man- Executive Secretary-Treasurer Jack to take money out of their pockets Equalization .Building, cleaned by The labor board investigation agers, to tell them that the secret to Henning, walking arm-in-ann with while he pushes for tax cuts for the Somers Building Maintenance found these actions illegal, despite getting out from under Local 87 con- Sacramento Mayor Joe Sema and rich." Company. efforts by the company's notorious tracts- was to sign sweetheart deals State Senator Hilda Solis, and thou- .Representatives of working peo- Fueling workers' anger was the anti-union law firm, Littler, with Daylight andLocal 1.- Building sands of construction workers, pie addressed both rallies. Hilda company's continued refusal to bar- Mendelssohn, Fastiff and Tchy, to service contractors in Los Angeles including their families and chil- Solis, the El Monte Democrat who gain with their union, Service convince board investigators other- have also threatened to bring in an dren.* On arriving at the capitol chairs the Senate Industrial Rela- Employees Local 1877, despite a wise. ""alternative union" to SEI. steps, they were told by State Senate tions Committee, and who co-chairs complaint issued a month ago by When SEW Local 1877 asked Somers Building Maintenance, President Pro-Tern Bill Lockyer that with Henning the Liveable Wage NLRB Region 20 in San Francisco. Somers management in March to with 400 workers, is the primary tar- the governor had greeted them by Coalition, told the Sacramento The labor board investigation which agree to* a -voluntary card-check get of the Justice for Janitors cam- press release, calling the assembled crowd that her mother -worked in resulted in the complaint found that recognition, the union was turned paign in Sacramento, and a key to workers "union thugs." rubber plants and that her brother is Somers management had set up an down flat. organizing- the city's building ser-- In Los Angeles, thousands of a carpenter. Tumning to state Repub- illegal company union, called Couri- Local 1 has ahistory ofraids and vice industry. Its major clients construction workers packed a licans, who have passed a wave of ers and Service Employees Local 1, sweetheart agreements with -compa- include Hewlett-Packard, the State closed-off Broadway for blocks, anti-worker bills through the state after workers began a Justice for nies which want to avoid dealing of California, the Joseph Benvenuti mounting a spirited rally in front of assembly where they enjoy a one- Janitors organizing drive with Local. with unions among their workers. Company and Foundation Health the state building. Afterwards, vote majority, she announced "we're 1877 last year. Last March, it signed a deal to repre- Plan. Using the trademark Justice union leaders went inside to testify going to kill every one of those In late August, union activists in sent thre employees of Daylight for Janitors organizing strategy of before the. state Department of bills." She and other leaders made the company discovered that an ex- Maintenance in* San Francisco. hoilding building owners responsible Industrial 'Relations, in the hearing the same pledge in Los Angeles. supervisor and the wife of another Daylight and -a non-union contrac- for the conditions of contract Jani- mandated by Judge Cahill. A sea. of hardhats cheered her supervisor were going through the tor, West Bay Building Mainte- tors, SEW Local 1877 has focused Balgenorth, who co-chaired the words. Many of them were pasted buildings cleaned by- Somers nance, then togkher took over the activity on Hewlett Packard. Sacramento rally with Jim Murphy with stickers bearing the slogan of employees at night. On--company contracts to clean buildings previous According to Mike Garcia, presi- of Ironworkers Local 118, accused the. two rallies, "Keep Fair Wages." time, they leaned on workers, pres- serviced by members of SEW Local dent of SEIU Local 1877, "Somers Wilson of "making a war on work- David Sickler, Director of AFL- swring them to sign authorization 87. and HewlettTackard have repeated- ing people, on our jobs, on decent CIO Region 6, told both rallies that cards withLocal I. 'This iswhatthe Daylight's manager, Al*an Florea, ly insisted on Local l's legitimacy wages, on good benefits, and on our the AFL-CIO nationally was in total company wants,' workers were told. ran the largest non-union contractor and their respect for- the workers' whole standard of living." He urged support of California's construction decision to 'choose' Local 1 over union members all over the state to workers. "An attack on your pay- SEWU. The NLRB decision clearly for the of all workers.
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