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Delgado, Adriana
From:David VanMuyden <dvanmuyden@calportland.com>
Sent:Monday, April 18,
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:email City Council - 4/19/22 Community Workforce Agreement
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Good Morning Council Members,
My name is David VanMuyden and I am the Construction General Manager for CalPortland Construction, a local building
material supplier and non-union contractor. I am writing to provide my opposition to the proposed Community
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Workforce Agreement (CWA) that is being presented at the City Council Meeting on Tuesday April 19.
A CWA provides numerous challenges and problems for local non-union contractors including:
1) Core Worker Provisions limit the number of our own local workers that can be deployed, in favor of union
workers that may or may not be local. This takes money away from our workers and results in serious safety,
quality and production concerns as people not familiar with our culture and practices are introduced to the
team.
2) Increased Bid Costs to cover administrative efforts in a CWA (generally 0.25%-5% depending on project size)
3) Smaller and less complex projects (less than $15-$20 Million) are generally short duration and can be performed
by local contractors. So a CWA provides no additional benefit.
4) Most benefits with unions have vesting periods of 5yrs. Short duration projects prevent non-union workers who
have to sign up with the union from ever vesting and recovering benefits paid into the trust fund.
In summary, we agree that CWA’s are not appropriate for projects that can be (and have been) completed by local
contractors because it reduces competition and limits local worker participation. Generally these are projects less than
$15-20 Million and shorter duration. CWA’s might be affective for larger more complex projects (SLO WRRF). We also
want to note that the Prado Road Interchange can be completed by local contractors (Souza, Granite, Papich,
CalPortland, John Madonna) and therefore shouldn’t be included in the ‘CWA for legacy projects’.
Thank you for taking the time to review these comments.
David VanMuyden, PE | Construction Gen. Manager
CalPortland|1625 E. Donovan Rd. | Santa Maria, CA 93454
Direct (805) 345-3459 | Cell (805) 896-9137
Email: dvanmuyden@calportland.com
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