{"id":16286,"date":"2025-10-17T08:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T15:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/?p=16286"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:43:52","slug":"watsonville-project-labor-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/watsonville-project-labor-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"WATSONVILLE PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WATSONVILLE PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-16x12.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 14th, the Watsonville City Council considered a plan to remove the Project Labor Agreement (PLA) that has been in effect for years. Once the Monterey\/Santa Cruz Counties Building and Construction Trades Council learned of this proposal, the trades quickly rallied together and mobilized a strong presence at the council meeting to oppose the rollback of an agreement that directly supports union workers and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That night, the council chambers were filled to capacity \u2014 not a single chair was left open. The room was packed wall to wall with union construction workers standing united, ready to make their voices heard in defense of the PLA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show of strength and solidarity had a clear impact. Two city councilmembers reversed their stance and decided not to remove the PLA, choosing instead to update and improve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a major win for union labor in Watsonville \u2014 a more rural area where we\u2019re actively working to expand union presence and opportunities. It\u2019s proof that when construction workers stand&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>together, we are powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ONE UNION. ONE FAMILY. ONE FIGHT.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATSONVILLE PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT&nbsp; On October 14th, the Watsonville City Council considered a plan to remove the Project Labor Agreement (PLA) that has been in effect for years. Once the Monterey\/Santa Cruz Counties Building and Construction Trades Council learned of this proposal, the trades quickly rallied together and mobilized a strong presence at the council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_image":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dc16iupat.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}