On April 26, 2016, the board of the Long Beach Community College District voted to require its construction contractors to sign a Project Labor Agreement with the Los Angeles-Orange County Building and Construction Trades Council as a condition of work. Disguised under the name “Community and Student Workforce Project Agreement (CSWPA),” this union deal is alleged to “create a satisfactory, continuous and harmonious relationship” on future job sites. And admittedly it’s true that unions feel harmonious when elected college board members discourage their bid competition and give them monopoly control over the contractor workforce. See the agreement at http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/lbcc/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=A8ZT746EE2D0.