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Labor agreements for construction and building service workers

1:13:05

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Council Member Powers inquires about labor agreements for construction jobs and building service workers. Julieanne Herskowitz and Cecilia Kushner provide information on the current arrangements.

  • A project labor agreement is in place with unions for the construction of the future project.
  • The project is expected to create 12,000 union jobs.
  • Discussions about building service workers for the commercial life science towers are ongoing.
  • Council Member Powers expresses support for these labor agreements.
Keith Powers
1:13:05
Got it.
1:13:06
And has the city entered into any agreement with, unions regarded to the construction jobs there?
1:13:12
And can you talk to us what that arrangement is right now?
Julieanne Herskowitz
1:13:15
Yeah.
1:13:15
That's exactly right.
1:13:16
We have a project labor agreement with unions for the construction of the future project.
1:13:22
So in total, that'll be 12,000 union jobs, which we're very excited to deliver as part of this overarching project.
UNKNOWN
1:13:28
And if
Kevin Riley
1:13:28
you had a
Keith Powers
1:13:29
dialogue with the building service workers about, inside the building too, is that an ongoing conversation right now?
Cecilia Kushner
1:13:37
Yeah.
1:13:37
So the building service worker conversation would be about the commercial life science towers that are to be developed, and that's something we're actively looking at.
Keith Powers
1:13:45
Okay.
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