California Forever signed the largest construction labor agreement in history with the Napa/Solano Building Trades Council and the Northern California Carpenters Union, the Solano County development firm announced Tuesday evening.
The labor agreement will span 40 years and covers all of the nearly 70,000 acres (about 110 square miles) owned by California Forever. All infrastructure, public works, major commercial, office, retail, industrial, defense, and energy projects on that land will be “built using union labor through individual Project Labor Agreements.” California Forever did not respond to The Reporter’s request to review a copy of the agreement before press time.
California Forever CEO Jan Sramek said the agreement has the potential to revive California’s spirit of innovation and renew its middle class.
“For the last 150 years, California has been the place where dreamers and builders came to build the future — and with it, the middle class,” Sramek said. “As the grandson of steelworkers and farmworkers, and the son of a mechanic and a school teacher, I could not be more proud of this historic partnership between American business and labor to build the next great American city.”…