Legislation Threatens Loss of Thousands of Construction Jobs According to CLP Resources.News Editors SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2001 According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. CLP 1. CLP - Cornell List Processor. 2. CLP - Constraint Logic Programming. Resources, Thousands of construction workers employed by temporary staffing agencies will lose their jobs if a bill before the California State Legislature The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California. It is a bicameral body consisting of the lower house California State Assembly, with 80 members, and the upper house California State Senate, with 40 members. passes. More than half of these jobs are held by minorities -- almost six out of ten in California -- according to CLP Resources, the state's largest construction staffing firm. Assembly Bill 1679, authored by Kevin Shelley Kevin Francis Shelley (born November 16, 1955 in San Francisco, California) is a California politician, who was the 28th California Secretary of State from January 6, 2003, until his resignation on March 4, 2005. (D-San Francisco) would ban the use of temporary construction workers by contractors, effectively putting companies like CLP Resources out of business in California. The construction staffing industry pays approximately $200 million in wages and benefits annually in California. "Our contractors use temporary workers on a regular basis," said Brad Barnum of the Associated General Contractors Associated General Contractors of America is the nation's oldest and largest trade association representing the construction industry. It was formed in 1918 following a request by President Woodrow Wilson. , San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Chapter, "but this bill severely limits their ability to hire temporary labor, and it takes away the flexibility necessary for them to make cost effective business decisions and stay competitive." Most temporary employees are used by small businesses which need flexibility, and which cannot afford to hire full time employees to meet occasional needs. Temporary workers who lose their jobs are unlikely to be re-hired by contractors, according to Nina Winans of Winans Construction of Oakland. "Most contractors use temporary workers for short-term assignments to support their regular employees, typically one to two weeks. We can't keep these people busy full time so it makes no sense to keep them on our payroll." "This is going to really hurt small volume residential contractors," said Winans, who is president of the San Francisco-Bay Area Chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling Industry (NARI NARI National Association of the Remodeling Industry NARI National Ageing Research Institute NARI NorAdrenaline Reuptake Inhibitor ). "This bill will make it more difficult for the construction industry to staff their projects," said Noel Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer of CLP Resources. Wheeler notes that last year CLP hired 6,196 construction workers in California, 59% of which were minorities. These workers were assigned to hundreds of licensed contractors who needed additional help in safely completing their construction projects. AB 1679, sponsored by the State Building and Trades Council (AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. ) goes before the Senate Appropriations Committee on August 20. Other organizations opposing AB 1679 include the California Chamber of Commerce, the Associated Builders and Contractors, the Associated General Contractors of California, the Associated General Contractors, San Diego Chapter, the San Francisco-Bay Area Chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry, the California Business Properties Association, the California Staffing Professionals Association, the American Staffing Association The American Staffing Association was founded in 1966 to be the "voice" of the staffing industry in the United States. Its members operate more than 15,000 staffing offices nationwide and account for more than 85% of staffing industry sales. , and the California Landscape Contractors Association. CLP Resources, Inc., founded in Berkeley, Calif., is one of the nation's largest construction staffing firms providing qualified, skilled tradespeople trades·peo·ple pl.n. 1. People engaged in retail trade. 2. Skilled workers. Noun 1. tradespeople - people engaged in trade since 1987.
Contacts for Information about Assembly Bill 1679
Opposition
Ogilvy Public Relations (representing CLP Resources)
Robert Deen, Managing Director 916/418-1500
robert.deen@ogilvypr.com
CLP Resources
Noel Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer 800/962-6504
Wanda Mattson, Marketing Communications Manager 775/321-8083
wmattson@clp.com
Associated General Contractors of California 916/444-9601
Dave Ackerman, Legislative Advocate
American Staffing Association 916/443-6400
Alan Edelstein
Associated General Contractors of San Diego 858/558-7444
Brad Barnum, Government Affairs Director
Author of A.B. 1679
Assemblyman Kevin Shelley (D-San Francisco)
San Francisco Office 415/557-2312
Sacramento Office 926/319-2012
Sponsor of A.B. 1679 (support)
State Building & Construction Trades Council 916/443-3302
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