Following multiple scandals uncovering wage theft and human trafficking at some on the city’s largest development projects, San Jose City Council voted to approve a groundbreaking ordinance requiring prevailing wages as a condition of any tax and fee breaks, development incentives, or other public subsidies provided to for-profit private developments.
Other elements relating to expanding the workforce pipeline, including providing on-the-job training for apprentices and hiring local and under-represented community members were still under development, and will be brought back to City Council in August to be added to the ordinance.
The City also initiated a process that could result in exempting some of the city’s biggest developments in the form of high-rise luxury residential towers in the heart of downtown. City Council will vote in early fall on the downtown high-rise subsidy, upon receiving the results of a study on those developments.
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