politics

Doug Mangione, Political Director

EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT
At this time we are still putting pressure on Diane Feinstein to support the act as written .The NY Times
reported that the card check provision was dropped in the senate conference. The card check provision
stated that if you got 50%+1 of the workers signed a representation card the company would have to
negotiate without holding an election. Labor leaders are disputing this stating "the bill is going through
the usual legislation process". There probably will be compromises but like any negotiation we if we drop
a provision easily the business group will attack the next provision that they don't like which is
mandatory arbitration. We have to keep up the pressure on all of our elected officials especially
Feinstein. Keep the calls and letters coming; let them know how important this is to all workers.

WWW.CA.GOV to find your congressmen

Senator Feinstein1-866-207 -2060 toll free
LA office 310-914 7300
11111 Santa Monica Blvd ste 915 LA 90025

HUNTINGTON BEACH CHARTER CITY REVIEW
The city of Huntington has opened the city charter to update some provisions. One councilman,Don
Hanson is reportedly pushing to repeal prevailing wage requirement for city jobs from the charter, but
we have not confirmed this and it was not discussed at meeting that I attended wed night along with
bldg trades rep Jim Adams .In public comment we let the committee know how we feel about this issue
and how it affects construction workers, union and non union alike, Saving money by paying low wages is
not the answer to budgets problems. In the long run you lower the tax base and the purchasing power
or workers who buy less products from small businesses which puts them out of business.
We will keep on top of this and keep you informed.

IRVINE
Irvine is a charter city and does not require prevailing wage on city jobs but the city council has passed
prevailing wage for any Great Park projects. This was achieved in a 3to2 vote by council with Larry
Agran,Beth Krom and Sukhee Kang voting for and Christina shea and Steven Choi against. This was a
great victory and Councilman Agran promised to bring a vote to require prevailing wage for all city
projects.

Larry Agran has made good on his promise and has worked with us to get speakers and our contractors
to speak, but now Mayor Suhkee Kang is having 2nd thoughts about doing this at this time. We think
there is no better time to raise wages than now. Workers discretionary income, income used to buy non
essential items, is dramatically down which means a lot of businesses suffer. If you can barely afford to
buy food and a place to live you are not buying cars, computers, entertainment and all the other stuff
that consumers buy.

Call Larry Agran and Beth krom, who is going to run for the 48th congressional against John Campbell,
and thank them for their continued support and call Mayor Suhkee Kang and ask why he doesn't support
prevailing wage for Irvine.

They can be reached at city hall at 949-724-6231
suhkeekang@ci.irvine.ca.us
larryagran@ci.irvine.ca.us
bethkrom@ci.irvine.ca.us

ORANGE COAST MEMORIAL MEDICALCENTER RALLY
We are participating in another rally opposing Coast Memorial hiring out of state contractors and also
testing the city or fountain Valleys' ordenence about not being able to use the inflatable rats ,which to us
symbolizes a non union contractor, which we view as political free speech. We have had 200 bldg trades
workers attend the last two rallys ,lets get a good IBEW tournout for this one.

Tues July 28th 2009
8:00A.M-10:A.M.
9920 Talbert Ave corner of Talbert and Brookhurst
Fountain Valley CA 92708