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Work Finally Underway on Massive $1 Billion 405 Project
By Beige Luciano-Adams
Contributing Writer
After nearly getting axed during last year’s State budget crisis and a few recent weather delays, construction is finally ramping up on a $1 billion 405-widening project. A joint effort between Cal-Trans and MTA, the massive overhaul is designed to ease congestion on the northbound San Diego freeway through the Sepulveda pass by creating continuous carpool lanes and redistributing traffic.
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Developer Offers Innovative Community Benefits, Unique Partnership with West LA Infill Development
 By Roy San Filippo
Staff Writer
The Building Trades has worked closely with developer Genton Barth to win approval for The Wetherly, a 12-story, 95-unit luxury condominium complex located on Third Street and Wetherly in West Los Angeles. The City Council approved the project last September. It will be built all-union and under a project labor agreement with the Building Trades, a rare occurrence for a privately-funded residential project.
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 Construction on Middle Harbor Redevelopment to Start in 2010
In December the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners unanimously approved a project labor agreement on a $150 million phase of the Middle Harbor redevelopment project. The project is one part of a larger $750-million plan to revitalize and modernize the Port of Long Beach and to make it one of the greenest ports in the world.
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 Building Trades craft unions from Orange County stepped up their support of the United Labor Agency of Orange County (ULAOC) this holiday season after over $100,000 in food and toys were stolen from the organization over the Thanksgiving holiday. The organization runs a food bank and provides limited financial assistance primarily to union families. They also give out toys during the holidays to needy families.
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- Wind Turbine, Photovoltaics Could Generate 100 Percent of Campus’ Electricity
By Beige Luciano-Adams, Contributing Writer
In a promising addition to LAUSD’s historic, $27-billion
construction and modernization program, a new high school development
in San Pedro may become one of the country’s “greenest.” South Region
High School #15 (SR HS 15) will be built to accommodate wind turbine
and photovoltaic systems that could generate nearly 100 percent of its
own electricity.
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- Project Providing Steady Work in Tough Times
More than a year after starting construction, Trades members are working on schedule to deliver Kaiser Permanente’s new $500 million hospital complex in Orange County.
Heralded as a “godsend” by union reps during one of the worst periods of the downturn – and in an area that was particularly hard-hit – the project is still providing jobs for a large number of members.
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Just when working families were gearing up to challenge another California ballot initiative to muzzle their and their union’s ability to affect policymaking in the state, the U.S. Supreme Court came out with a stunning blow to the individual having any impact on elections. Last Jan. 10, the Court issued its decision in “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,” and declared that business profits, with no limit on the amount, can be used to fund political campaigns.
