I think local work should stay local! we need a local hire agreement to keep this county strong. out of town contractors will take our money with them..... sorry small businesses!

it would be beneficial to keep the work local. consider a community workforce agreement.

Due to the economic impact of the closure of Diablo Canyon, I believe PG&E should look into entering some sort of agreement to ensure that the building trades and blue collar working class jobs remain local. It is very important to keep county dollars in the county.

As an apprentice with the IBEW, I highly encourage that PG&E engage with the Tri-County building trade to bring forth local work.

I want PG&E to work on getting a project labor agreement (PLA) in the Tri-County area, we need to keep out local working force on the decommissioning of diablo canyon.

I encourage PG&E to get involved with the Tri-county building and construction trades to get a local work force agreement, for the decommissioning of Diablo Canyon

I hope to have your consideration on an arrangement for a local hire on the decommission of Diablo Canyon. Please put a PLA/CWA in place for the future demolition/decommission of the Diablo Canyon power plant. Thank you.

I believe it is important to have a community labor agreement for the decommissioning. It's a strong help to local apprenticeships and local hands. It will give the community a living wage.

there needs to be a workforce development agreement to help local trades during decommissioning. we do need to see a liveable work wage and benefits for all workers out there during decommissioning.

After decades of Electrical maintenance at DCPP I believe it would be good practice to see the tri-counies building trades involved in negotiations for a working agreement for decommissioning. This would help offset the impact of closure on our local community.

I would like to see a local hire agreement for the decommissioning of Diablo Canyon to help those that will be economically affected by the decommissioning of the plant.

I feel that we should have a project labor agreement for local jobs. I think that we should keep as much work local. As much as I don't want to see the plant closed at all but I would like to have the opportunity to be a part of the closing of it.

would like to see an agreement with the local community for local jobs to assure living wages, long term jobs, community work force agreement. This would give an opportunity for tradesman to have a long term employment.

Diablo Power Plant is very important to our community in terms of employment, infrastructure and our economy. Its decommissioning should be no different. The decomissioning should be done by local workers and apprentices. A project labor agreement with the local trades would be the right to thing to do.

good afternoon, im writing because i feel like this is a topic of discussion. as a local tradesman in the slo county, i would like to see pge discuss a potential agreement for the decommissioning work out at diablo canyon. this is something that I know our local 639 ibew electricians would appreciate as well as our wives and kids. we are all part of this community and this is our backyard, and we deserve this opportunity. many of us are familiar with the plant, and have worked out there in the past. thank you for your time and consideration.

-local veteran and electrician

As a local apprentice in San Luis Obispo, I would like to see a project labor agreement on the decomissioning of diablo canyon. There would be a lot of work to keep people in our community employed and keep us local workers at home.

I'd like to see local hire using a PLA agreement. It would help many apprentices here locally and boost our local economy.

Employ local hire for the decommissioning of DCPP, or community work force agreement.

I feel like if we are going to decommission Diablo we need to make sure that the work stays with local hires. Hopefully there is some sort of PLA in place where we can keep local people working there to decommission the plant.

I feel that a local hire agreement should be put in place during the decomishening of diablo canyon power plant. Being a fourth year apprentice and the head of my house hold, living locally it will impact me and the community around me directly. Having a labor agreement would ensure local hire and the stimulation of the surrounding comunities and boost in local economy.

There could be a major local economic impact with the decommissioning of Diablo Canyon, if there is not a Community Workforce Agreement in place. If we could have a contract in place to ensure that the decommissioning is local hire the local economic impact will hopefully not be as major. Thank you for your consideration.

I strongly encourage the panel on agreeing to a Project Labor Agreement or Community Workforce Agreement for the betterment of the local economy on ALL of the decommissioning work at Diablo Canyon. Some of the benefits of what a PLA/CWA agreement are keeping the local dollars in the heart of SLO County and developing a career in the Building Trades. SLO County cannot afford to give this work up to workers coming from out of town or even out of state. Safety should also be on your minds when the decommissioning work takes place. As I right this comment, currently there are men and women who are on site that are skilled and properly trained to perform the decommissioning work. Some of the skilled and trained workers on site have worked many hours performing the maintenance and outages at Diablo Canyon. The plant is a very complicated system, why would you want to remove those workers doesn't make any sense. In order to achieve all of what I briefly talked about, a PLA/CWA is the perfect vehicle to get the job done right the first time and for the last time since this power plant will no longer be active. Thank you for your time on reading my comment and I am confident that you will make the right decision on choosing a PLA/CWA to better serve those who work towards a career and the safety of the residents in SLO County.

How much of the 85 million that the county has been allocated are they willing to put on the table to give back to PG&E for delays due to bureucratic red tape and indicisiveness and inability to approve permits. Furthermore when, not if, the coastal commission shuts down ANY option other than complete destruction. What will be the result of the money that's been allocated for "repurpose". All of this is assuming that someone will be willing to PAY for the land. How is ownership and taxation of the land going to be established?

Who is going to own the land?

DCDEP Panel Members:

Tonight you are being asked by big labor special interests to place a discriminatory and wasteful Project Labor Agreement (PLA) on your work. This would be a mistake.

My name is Eric Christen and I am the Executive Director of the Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction (CFEC). Formed 21 years ago to oppose Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) CFEC seeks to educate those considering their use and why that would be a terrible idea.

Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) are banned in 24 states and 11 entities have done the same in California Why? Because, in California’s case, they implicitly and explicitly discriminate against the 85% of the workforce who are union-free.

PLAs create barriers for local, minority and women-owned construction employers and their employees from participating in building their community because they contain provisions that do not allow for the full utilization of their own workforces and force union-free workers to pay into union pension plans they will never vest in. This is wage theft. (see attached)

Furthermore, studies show these types of agreements increase project costs – anywhere from 10-30% above prevailing wage because they restrict competition. Open competition is healthy and increases quality. It levels the playing field and local money is invested into the community. With the construction market so busy right now and with more work than workers, why would you do anything that makes is less likely you’ll attract bidders. If you want to see what this means in real life here is what happened to the City of Selma just last month! Their new police station was supposed to have beeen awarded already but despite having 10 pre-qualified bidders only 1 ended up bidding the project. Why? As you can see from the attached document, staff lays the fault squarely at the feet of the PLA.

And finally, PLAs exclude the men, women, and veterans who have chosen to enter into state approved, unilateral apprenticeship training programs in pursuit of a construction career from the opportunity to work and gain the invaluable on-the-job training experience that provides stability for them, their family and their community.

For these reasons we ask you to NOT approve this PLA on your work but instead consider the following:

Hold a study session on the issue of PLAs where both sides are allowed to fully present their side of the issue and where you can ask questions of the participants.
Survey contractors who do work for you and ask them about PLAs. When the San Jose Unified School District and East Bay Municipal Utility District did this they found they would receive 50% FEWER bidders and as a result they chose not to employ a PLA. (see attached)

Best regards,

Eric Christen
Executive Director
Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction
www.opencompca.com