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The vote allows the city manager to execute a new overarching contract with the Los Angeles/Orange County Building and Construction Trades Council, clearing the way for its 48 different unions to work on city construction projects over a certain threshold. The group represents some 100,000 skilled workers in the region.
The agreement will apply through 2031 to all city projects over $750,000 as well as street-related and right-of-way projects over $1 million.
City officials estimate that could be mean the agreement would apply to 40-50 projects worth an estimated $266 million over the first five years. It’s expected to cost the city about one to two percent of the projects’ cost annually to administer the new agreement.