Developers have found a way to bypass Berkeley’s labor standards for housing construction

Tamara Ceaikovski

More than two years after Berkeley leaders adopted a set of union-backed labor standards for major construction projects, the developers behind three proposed new apartment complexes plan to use one of California’s most powerful state housing laws to exempt themselves from the mandates. The move has construction unions crying foul, saying it subverts the law’s intent and effectively guts a host of local development ordinances that set requirements for workers’ pay, health care coverage and

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