The board of the troubled Sweetwater Union High School District in Chula Vista is voting on June 27, 2016 on a Project Labor Agreement for its facilities construction funded by proceeds from bond sales authorized by voters in November 2006 as Proposition O. According to the staff report for the agenda item, the district modeled its Project Labor Agreement on the union deals instituted at Los Angeles Unified School District and San Diego Unified School District.

Yes, after ten years this district still has money to spend from its $644 million bond measure. And now unions will have a monopoly on the contract construction workforce funded by it.

This Project Labor Agreement even includes construction funded by Mello-Roos taxes for Community Facilities Districts associated with the school district. No contract will escape the grip of the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council.

In June 2010, 56% of Chula Vista voters approved Proposition G, an ordinance that outright PROHIBITED the City of Chula Vista from entering into contracts that required companies to sign union agreements as a condition of work. Since then, the union-controlled elected board of Southwestern Community College District in Chula Vista implemented a Project Labor Agreement and the union-controlled boards of Sweetwater Union High School District in Chula Vista and Chula Vista Elementary School District voted to negotiate a Project Labor Agreement. Unions don’t like it when the people say NO.