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Council Enters Into Historic Community Workforce Agreement with UCSF, Creating 1,000 Long-Term Construction Jobs 121th Year OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO Volume 121, No. 2 February 2021 www.SFBuildingTradesCouncil.org Council Enters Into Historic Community Workforce Agreement With UCSF, Creating 1,000 Long-Term Construction Jobs w The 10-year, $3 Billion Project Will Result in a New State-of-the-Art Hospital for the City, Good-Paying Work for Tradespeople, and More an Francisco’s Gonzalez said. “It couldn’t have OF UCSF COURTESY building and con- come at a more crucial moment struction trades in our city’s history.” workers can count To ensure the highest quality, a massive new safety, and efficiency in con- projectS in the “win” column: struction, the Council will enter construction of the new hos- into the agreement on behalf of pital at UCSF Helen Diller its 60,000 local skilled workers Medical Center at Parnas- in 32 trade unions. The pact, the sus Heights. Last month, the first of its kind for the Univer- San Francisco Building and sity of California system, is a Construction Trades Coun- formal agreement between the cil, together with UC San Council and HBW, the general Francisco and Herrero Boldt contractor hired by UCSF. It Webcor (HBW), announced a ensures that the $3 billion build- Community Workforce Agree- ing project will employ a union ment (CWA) that will pro- workforce with strong represen- The UCSF Parnassus Heights Campus is seen here as it currently exists. The new hospital will take better mote collaboration between tation of local labor. advantage of its beautiful surroundings, with a plan in place to better integrate it into the serene green the university, labor unions (continued on page 9) space at the foot of Mount Sutro. and construction firms on this large construction project. The new hospital is a How One of the Nation’s Strongest, decade-long, $3 billion project that is expected to create 1,000 Longest-Lasting Trades Councils Got construction jobs and comes at a time when unemployment Its Start and Built Its Power numbers are high due to the w A Fascinating Look Back at the San Francisco Building COVID-19 pandemic. “This agreement builds a Trades Council’s Birth and Early Days sturdy bridge between local By Catherine Powell, Director of the ditions. The significant contributions of hiring halls and contractors Labor Archives and Research Center, the city’s earliest workers would go a long to support our city’s working San Francisco State University way in establishing San Francisco as a people, including apprentices, place “where unionism holds undisputed journey workers, and military rom the very beginning of the sway.” The building trades were among veterans, in putting food on the Gold Rush, workers in San the first unions to organize, and the first COURTESY OF SF STATE LABOR ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTER OF SF STATE COURTESY table for their families,” Coun- The San Francisco Building Trades Council’s Francisco have had to fight for recorded strike was by carpenters in 1849. cil Secretary-Treasurer Rudy headquarters, circa 1905. Fbetter wages and working con- (continued on page 8) Another Voice for Workers Joins the Golden Inside Gate Bridge Transportation District Board Carpenters 22 ..................page 10 w OE3 Figure and Longtime Union Member Chris Snyder is All Bricklayers 3 ....................page 11 About Working-Class Perspective Sprinklers 483 ..................page 11 By Paul Burton, Contributing Writer Electrical Workers 6 ........page 12 Looking up the Hatch ......page 13 hris Snyder, Gov- joins two fellow unionists: ernment Relations Michael Theriault, former Roofers 40 ........................page 13 Director for Operat- S.F. Building Trades Council Carpet Layers 12 ..............page 14 C ing Engineers Local 3, was Secretary-Treasurer, who was Sign Display 510 ..............page 15 appointed to the Golden Gate appointed to the board in Heat & Frost 16 ................page 16 Bridge, Highway and Trans- 2011, and Sabrina Hernán- portation District’s Board of dez, International Brother- Hammers & Leads ...........page 17 Directors effective January 1. hood of Electrical Workers Cement Masons 300 ........page 17 With Snyder’s appoint- Local 6 Business Representa- Glaziers 718 .....................page 18 ment, another voice for work- tive, who was appointed to ers is added to the board. He (continued on page 5) Chris Snyder, now on the board. BUILDING THE TRADES Celebrating 125 Years by Fighting Hard for Today’s Working People By Rudy Gonzalez, Secretary-Treasurer, San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council f you were holding a copy of The one thing would remain: The hardwork- in short supply, and districts across the San Francisco Call in your hands ing Union families of the City would, state were starved. As a father, I can at- Ion this day 125 years ago, you’d be time and again, be taken on by employ- test to the disproportionate impact this reading about the arrival of William ers of every industry. And standing kind of austerity has on young children, Pinkerton and his detective agency to guard would be the delegates, representa- especially those with special needs. But I the City, where they were contracting tives, and elected leaders of our Unions. cannot lay blame on the educators who with corporations. have been doing their best to offer edu- The year was 1896. Utah had just Advancing the Labor cation and community, even if through been minted the 45th state, San Fran- Movement, 125 Years On a computer screen and with their own cisco’s new Cliff House was featured Today’s headlines have been domi- kids in the background. prominently, with service by the Sutro nated by national political affairs, Finally, let’s not forget the workers Electrical Street Railway, and the now- COVID-19, soaring public approval who have been on the job throughout outdated 1895 Rambler bicycle was of Unions (64% nationwide!), the pandemic. Plumbers, sheet metal discounted $15 to $85. and yes, of course, school workers, laborers, electricians, The Painters Union was in the midst of reopenings. Here I will carpenters, teamsters, to modernize, green, and make safe our a strike against St. Denis & Co., and work- take a personal point engineers, glaziers, paint- middle and high schools even after we be- ing painters, plasterers and others were of privilege, ascend ers, roofers, and water gin reopening the lower grades. We have chipping in to provide support. This would the soap box, and proofers have been done the work to chart a course toward prove to be an important fight, with city- insert my own take continuously report- reopening, with the recently announced wide committees set in place and reporting on the matter. ing to work, where baseline safety agreement at SFUSD. back to the Building Trades Council. First, the they find themselves The Trades stand ready to reopen The strike would end victorious for Building Trades on shoestring budgets learning sites safely and under the best the Union and lead to the establish- must stand in with too few staff. possible conditions. We remain clear- ment of the card system, guaranteeing solidarity with the Alongside them, food eyed about limitations due to underfund- contractors would employ only card- educators and pro- service workers have ing, retention, and staffing challenges, carrying Union members. fessionals with whom staffed food distribution but we nevertheless see hope in the Delegates of the Building Trades set we align as Unionists, facilities, and custodians have recently negotiated safety agreement. out to enforce the early model of the and whom, frankly, we trust disinfected facilities. IT and help We look forward to support from our Union shop, and contractors agreed to with the welfare and lives of our own desk staff have delivered technology and federal, state, and local leaders to help us hire only Union labor. P.H. McCarthy, children. We must also stand on the side support to students. The list goes on. realize learning environments and facili- a Union carpenter who had immigrated of public education as an institution, So, let’s have the conversation about ties that are worthy of our students. from County Limerick, Ireland, would and, after we sift through the politics reinvesting in public education and As we embark on our 125th year as rise to lead the newly formed S.F. Build- and posturing, see a grand opportunity prioritizing our schools. One of the easi- a Council, we will continue to fight for ing Trades Council and later go on to to reinvest in our schools in every way. est things we can do is fast-track capital safety, fair pay, healthcare, and retirement serve as the 29th mayor of San Francisco. Second, let’s be honest about our improvement plans; if we’re serious about security — all in the name of safeguard- Politics, social norms, and the econo- priorities. Our schools were in disrepair equity, let’s start with schools in our ing the working class. We must ensure the my would continue to shift — sometimes due to insurmountable deferred main- poorest neighborhoods. We have con- next generation has a path to the middle for better, sometimes for worse — but tenance and with staff underpaid and tractors and skilled tradespeople ready class, and with a Union label! OL 121 Years SAN FRANCISCO BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL OFFICERS & AFFILIATES Published Since February 1900 Officers of the Council (USPC 411-860) - (ISSN 00199-6452) Rudy Gonzalez, Secretary-Treasurer Dan Fross, Trustee Official Newspaper of the Lawrence Mazzola Jr., President Ramon Hernandez,
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