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California Budget Approval Comes with a Catch: Housing, Labor, Environmental Overhaul
- California lawmakers face a June 30 deadline to finalize a $321 billion state budget that includes a housing bill tied to new construction wage standards and environmental law changes.
- The housing bill, introduced by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks in March and folded into the budget last month, creates a new CEQA exemption with lower minimum wages for certain housing projects.
- Supporters argue the deal could reshape housing legislation by offering a development-friendly wage standard, paying most Bay Area construction workers at least $40 per hour, while opponents say it threatens worker wages and environmental safeguards.
- A recent poll shows 75 percent of voters support CEQA, and 66 to 70 percent oppose weakening environmental review, reducing community input, or lowering workers' bargaining power, highlighting broad public resistance.
- The fast-tracked budget deal risks dividing Democrats, heightens labor and environmental opposition, and could significantly alter California's labor policy and environmental protections if enacted.
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Newsom, Legislature tangle with construction unions over minimum wage
California lawmakers are on the cusp of striking a last-minute deal to tie one of the year’s most ambitious and controversial housing bills to a new set of minimum wages for housing construction workers — a proposal that has thrown a wrench into budget negotiations just days before the deadline. The new legislative language, buried in a sprawling budget bill put into print on Tuesday, represents a grand political bargain between pro-development …
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Newsom and Legislature tangle with construction unions over minimum wage
In summary Lawmakers are weighing a provision that would allow developers to pay a lower wage for some construction projects, theoretically stimulating housing production in California. Unions and environmental groups are opposed. California lawmakers are on the cusp of striking a last-minute deal to tie one of the year’s most ambitious and controversial housing bills to a new set of minimum wages for housing construction workers — a proposal t…
Gov. Newsom, Legislature tangle with construction unions over minimum wage
California lawmakers are on the cusp of striking a last-minute deal to tie one of the year’s most ambitious and controversial housing bills to a new set of minimum wages for housing construction workers — a proposal that has thrown a wrench into budget negotiations just days before the deadline. The new legislative language, buried in a sprawling budget bill put into print on Tuesday, represents a grand political bargain between pro-development …
Environmentalists, Labor Groups Urge Halt to CEQA Rollback - Davis Vanguard
A coalition of environmental and labor leaders is urging California lawmakers to halt a rushed effort to weaken the state's foundational environmental law, citing overwhelming public support for the CEQA and opposition to legislative attempts to scale it back.
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