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Job creation and potential for union labor in the development
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Council Member Crystal Hudson inquires about the developer's plans for providing good jobs and potentially using union labor for the project. Michael Berfield discusses their approach to union labor and service workers.
- Developer is in discussions with 32BJ for the service portion of the project
- A preliminary agreement is being considered to allow union representation once the building is operational
- Final agreement hasn't been reached, but Berfield is optimistic about reaching an agreement
- The project is still a few years away from being on the ground
Crystal Hudson
0:53:17
Providing good jobs for good workers on any new project is important to me and to my constituents.
0:53:23
Do you plan on providing good jobs for the building service workers in this development and have you committed to union labor at all for this project?
Michael Berfield
0:53:29
Yeah.
0:53:30
We're in as Ellie mentioned, we're in discussions with thirty two BJ for the service portion of the project.
0:53:36
You know, at this point, obviously, we're a few years away from the project being on the ground, so there's sort of a preliminary agreement that we're looking at that would commit us to, allowing Union to come into the building once it's operational.
0:53:49
We haven't finalized it yet, but I'm optimistic that we'll we'll get there.
0:53:54
We're waiting for them to sort of get back to us on on the comments we had.
Crystal Hudson
0:53:57
Okay.