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San Francisco Supervisors Say Yes to Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan |
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 Project Would Create 1,000 Construction Jobs for Next 20 Years
By Paul Burton, Contributing Writer
In a major victory for the building trades that will have long-term
job-creating impact, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the
redevelopment of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard July 28. Development
of the new neighborhood for about 24,500 people would create more than
1,000 construction jobs each year for the next 20 years, according to
the developer, Lennar.
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Board OKs Earthquake Bond Measure for November Ballot |
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Funds Will Pay Union Workers for Seismic Retrofitting
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted last month to place a measure on the November ballot that asks voters to support a $46 million bond to finance seismic retrofits of multi-story wood-framed buildings vulnerable to earthquakes. The measure would mandate that building owners make the necessary improvements, and would provide low interest or no interest loans or grants for retrofitting “soft-story” wood frame structures—multi-level properties with a store or garage on the first floor that include small hotels and affordable housing units.
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SF Unified School District Projects Offer Much-Needed Work |
 Ongoing Construction, Renovation Projects Funded by $430-Million Bond
By Paul Burton, Contributing Writer
Several more projects covered by the project labor agreement between the Building Trades and San Francisco Unified School District are currently underway in the city this summer.
Organized Labor recently visited two job sites—Downtown High School and Herbert Hoover Middle School. The work at the two schools is largely to bring them into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that mandates that schools be accessible to disabled, or handicapped students. The work is funded through $450 million in general-obligation bonds approved by SF voters in 2006 to continue SFUSD’s building improvement work—including meeting disability-access requirements and health and safety codes, and rehabilitating the buildings and grounds of 64 schools in the SFUSD.
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‘Healthy San Francisco’ Law Wins Legal Challenge |
 High Court Refuses to Hear Case Brought By Restaurant Association
The City of San Francisco prevailed in its effort to provide health care to residents when the United States Supreme Court on June 28 refused to hear a legal challenge filed by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. The business group had sued the city in November 2006 over a provision of the Health Care Security Ordinance that mandates that all companies with at least 20 workers provide health insurance, pay into health care reimbursement accounts or contribute to the Healthy San Francisco program.
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Lowe’s Under Construction on Bayshore Boulevard |
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All-Union Job Providing Much-Needed Work for Trades
 By Paul Burton, Contributing Writer
Construction of a San Francisco Lowe’s home improvement store is underway on Bayshore Boulevard, at the site formerly occupied by Goodman Lumber. The site has been vacant for nine years. Home Depot planned to build a store at the site and reached an agreement with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2005. But the company dropped its plan in 2008, citing a downturn in the home-improvement sales market that saw its earnings decrease by about 19 to 24 percent in 2008.
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In getting projects approved and members to work we count as usual
allies on the Board of Supervisors Michela Alioto-Pier, Carmen Chu,
Bevan Dufty, and Sean Elsbernd. These four were steady in supporting
Lennar’s project at Hunters and Candlestick Points, a project that means
twenty years of work for us. We owe them thanks.Our greatest gratitude for Board approval of the project belongs of
course to Sophie Maxwell, who from her arrival there until now just
before her last term’s end has shepherded the project through the screes
and scarps, the high passes and deep gorges of City Hall.
