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Prop. 209 Court Decision
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 6.29.1999
Last year, San Francisco officials approved an expansion of a city program which grants preferences to minorities and women in public contracting. This move defied Proposition 209, the voter-approved anti-race-and-gender-preference initiative, which is now part of the California constitution. Although city supervisors argued that there was legal basis for their action, a recent unanimous state appellate court decision undercuts their claims.
Project Labor Agreements
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 6.1.1999
The recent strike by union carpenters working on the San Francisco airport expansion project has focused attention on the problems with so-called "project labor agreements" or PLAs. The airport expansion is governed by a PLA which allows only union labor to work on the project in exchange for union promises of labor peace. The carpenters' strike, however, demonstrates that such promises are often more illusory than real.
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