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City College Chinatown Campus Construction Underway |
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New Facilities Will Serve Needs for Chinese Immigrant Community
 By Paul Burton
Contributing Writer
Construction of the new City College Chinatown campus began last month with the start of excavation of the site at the northeast corner of Kearny and Washington, where a 14-story, 215-foot tower will be built. The 14-story building will include classroom space, laboratories for science and computers, a library/learning resource center, conference rooms, faculty work areas and admissions, counseling, and financial aid offices. A separate four-story building on Washington will be home to a new culinary program as well as an auditorium for community events.
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Annual Building Trades Legislative Conference Celebrates Return to Table |
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 After Eight Years, Labor Once Again Has Voice in White House
By Roy San Filippo
Staff Writer
The atmosphere at this year’s Building Trades Department Annual Legislative conference was remarkably different than the previous eight years. Thanks to the massive mobilization efforts by the Building Trades, the new administration in Washington is pro-union, in contrast to the anti-union, anti-worker agenda under Bush-Cheney. Vice President Joe Biden summed it up in his taped address to the conference, “Welcome back to the table.”
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Phase II Construction Begins on Joint City College, SFSU Facility |
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$7.3 Million Project Slated for 2010 Completion
The first phase of construction of a new joint-use facility at the site of the Balboa Reservoir at City College of San Francisco’s Ocean Campus has been completed and Phase II construction is on schedule. CCSF Vice Chancellor for Facilities Jim Blomquist said the structural steel frame for the new building on Phelan Street across from the campus is almost complete. The multi-purpose building that will be jointly used by City College (CCSF) and San Francisco State University students will include classrooms and administrative offices, and eventually a performing arts center, visual arts center, child care facilities, and an advanced technology center.
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Building & Construction Trades Rally for Jobs |
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Say Proposed Historic Preservation Measure Would Destroy Jobs, Grants Too Much Authority to Bureaucracy
By Paul Burton
Contributing Writer
Hundreds of construction union members rallied at San Francisco Civic Center Plaza May 5 to send a message to the Board of Supervisors that the union workers who built the City need jobs – and a seat at the table when issues of development versus historic preservation are discussed and voted on.
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Labor’s Joint Legislative Conference: Restoring Economic Justice |
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By Paul Burton
Contributing Writer
The California Labor Federation and State Building and Construction Trades Council held their annual Joint Legislative Conference in Sacramento March 16 and 17 to give union members an opportunity to learn about Labor’s legislative priorities for 2009 and meet with local legislators to advocate for bills that benefit California workers.
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In the nightmares of some San Franciscans someone in a hard hat whispers, “Build on the Northeast Waterfront,” and an army of Fontana Apartment buildings claw their way up from the magma beneath us and stand all along the Embarcadero between the City and the Bay like massive robots spewing oil and destruction, while the populace flees in terror, maybe to Tracy.
