Victory!  Prevailing Wages Prevail. Fair Wages for All!

Congratulations, Brothers and Sisters.

Recently we united to defeat one of the most brazen assaults on prevailing wages in modern California history – Assembly Bill 130. This as a victory for IBEW and other union members across California who organized, showed up, and raised our collective voices to tell legislators that we would not stand for a bill that would have paid skilled tradespeople far below their value and forced each and every one of you into substandard, non-livable wages.

This is a total victory and proved that when we stand together and fight for fair wages we will prevail. Thank you, and thank you to all our partners in the Legislature who stood by our side in this battle!

While this win was critical to protecting construction worker wages, development interests and their allies in the Legislature will continue to try and scapegoat “labor costs” for California’s housing affordability crisis, instead of the greed and profits of developers.  We must remain vigilant in our fight to protect fair wages and benefits!