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1 <br />COMMUNITYWORKFORCE AGREEMENT <br />For the City of San Leandro <br />(April 9, 2015 version) <br />This Agreement is made and entered into this _____ day of ____________("Effective <br />Pate"), by and between the City of San Leandro ("City") together with other contractors and/or <br />sub-contractors, who shall become parties to this Agreement by signing the "Agreement to be <br />Bound" (Attachment A), and the Local Unions signatory hereto and the Alameda County Building <br />& Construction Trades Council and its affiliatedlocalunionswho haveexecutedthisAgreement. <br />PURPOSE <br />The purpose of this Agreement is to support the efforts of the City to increase <br />employment opportunities for workers who reside in San Leandro, to help increase training and <br />employment opportunities for the City's students in the construction trades through apprenticeship <br />and pre-apprentice programs as the students graduate from the City's schools, to promote <br />efficiency of construction operations performed for and within the City of San Leandro and to <br />provide for peaceful settlement of labor disputes and grievances without strikes or lockouts, thereby <br />promoting thepublic interest in assuring the timely andeconomicalcompletionoftheprojects. <br />RECITALS <br />WHEREAS, the successful completion of the City's construction projects is of the utmost <br />importance totheCityofSan Leandro;and <br />WHEREAS, the interests of the general public, the City, the Unions and Contractor(s) <br />would be best served if the construction work proceeded in an orderly manner without disruption <br />because of strikes, sympathy strikes, work stoppages,picketing, lockouts, slowdowns or other <br />interferenceswithwork;and <br />WHEREAS, the Contractor(s) and the Unions desire to mutually establish and stabilize <br />wages, hours and working conditions for the workers employed on construction work for and <br />within the City of San Leandro by the Contractor(s), and further, to encourage close cooperation <br />among the Contractor(s) and the Union(s) to the end that a satisfactory, continuous and harmonious <br />relationship will exist among thepartiestothisAgreement; and <br />WHEREAS, contracts for construction work within the City of San Leandro will be awarded <br />in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Charter of the City of San Leandro, the <br />California State Public Contract Code and the Labor Code, including but not limited to requiring <br />competitivebiddingandprevailingwages;and <br />WHEREAS, the City of San Leandro has the absolute right to select the lowest <br />responsive and responsible bidder for the award of the construction contracts on the Projects;and <br />WHEREAS, the parties signatory to this Agreement pledge their full good faithandtrustto <br />worktowardsamutuallysatisfactorycompletionoftheProjects;