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2 <br />COMMUNITY WORKFORCE AGREEMENT <br />For the City of San Leandro <br />This Agreement is made and entered into this day of , by and <br />between the City of San Leandro ("City") together with contractors and sub-contractors of all <br />tiers, who shall become parties to this Agreement by signing the "Agreement to be Bound" <br />(Attachment A), and the Alameda County Building & Construction Trades Council and its <br />affiliated local Unions who have executed this Agreement. <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 <br />apprenticeship and pre-apprentice programs as the students graduate from the City's schools, <br />to promote efficiency of construction operations performed for and within the City of San Leandro <br />and to provide for peaceful settlement of labor disputes and grievances without strikes or <br />lockouts, thereby promoting the public interest in assuring the timely and economical completion <br />of the projects. <br />RECITALS <br />WHEREAS, the successful completion of the City's construction projects is of the utmost <br />importance to the City of San 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 />interferences with work; 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 <br />harmonious relationship will exist among the parties to this Agreement; and <br />WHEREAS, the parties agree that one of the primary purposes of this Agreement is to <br />avoid the tensions that might arise on the Project if Union and non-union workers of different <br />employers were to work side by side on the Project, thereby leading to labor disputes that could <br />delay completion of the Project; and <br />WHEREAS, this Agreement is not intended to replace, interfere with, abrogate, diminish <br />or modify existing local or national collective bargaining agreements in effect during the duration <br />of the Project, insofar as a legally binding agreement exists between the <br />Contractor(s)/Employer(s) and the affected Union(s), except to the extent that the provisions of <br />this Agreement are inconsistent with said collective bargaining agreements, in which event, the <br />provisions of this Agreement shall prevail; and <br />December06 <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 64BB0189-33AC-48E9-B1D7-D912FB4998D8