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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary for the Second Amendment to Project Labor Agreement (PLA) No. 33859 between the City of Long Beach and the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, and the signatory Craft Councils and Local Unions, to extend the terms of the PLA from its expiration date of December 31, 2020 to March 1, 2021, or the effective date of a new PLA, whichever occurs first; and
Authorize City Manager to execute a new citywide Project Labor Agreement between the City of Long Beach and the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, and the signatory Craft Councils and Local Unions, for all covered projects over $750,000, and all street-related right-of-way projects over $1,000,000, for a period of ten years, with an annual cost-escalation factor beginning after year five of the PLA. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On April 7, 2015, the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute a citywide Project Labor Agreement (PLA) between the City of Long Beach (City), the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council (Building Trades Council), and the signatory Craft Councils and Local Unions (Unions). The PLA covered all projects over $500,000, for a period of five years (original PLA). The original PLA was fully executed on May 22, 2015 and expired on May 22, 2020.
On September 1, 2020, the City Council authorized an amendment to extend the original PLA retroactively from its termination on May 22, 2020 to December 31, 2020, or the effective date of a new Project Labor Agreement, whichever occurred first in time. This amendment extended the terms and conditions of the existing original PLA to cover all eligible projects until a study session could be conducted with the City Council and the new PLA could be negotiated between the City and the Building Trades Council.
On October 13, 2020, the City Council conducted a ...
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