Anti-worker front groups
What you should know about the “community support” behind Gaylord
Rogue contractors are attacking workers for standing up for local jobs.
Corporate anti-worker front groups like the Associated Builders and Contractors and Associated General Contractors threatened to sue Gaylord if they signed an agreement with us to protect competition and hire local workers first. (View the proof) Now the Associated Builders and Contractors, Associated General Contractors and right-wing activists at the Chamber of Commerce and Lincoln Club are the main “community support” behind Gaylord. They are also running a smear campaign to tarnish the reputation of local workers. These organizations are constantly in pursuit of public policy and politics that hurt workers. They don’t want to do their fair share to make sure employees have a living wage, paid health care or a secure retirement.
But just who are some of the mouthpieces you’re hearing from that support Gaylord and Mayor Cox and attack the local workforce?
Eric Christen, Associated Builders and Contractors
Eric Christen is a fanatical anti-worker activist who lives in Colorado but heads up San Diego’s Associated Builders and Contractors — as well as its front group “Build the Bayfront”— as part of his own personal campaign against employee-labor agreements that protect workers. In addition to denying the fact that project labor agreements are as good for employers as they are for workers, he also denies that global warming is real and rages against consumer groups such as Center for Science in the Public Interest for their work to expose harmful chemicals in corporate food products. Oh, yeah, and he wants to take away public education, too! (Is this a person who shares your values, Mayor Cox?)
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Jim Ryan, Associated General Contractors
Jim Ryan, the head of Associated General Contractors’ San Diego chapter has a long track record of anti-worker activism. Most recently, Ryan stretched the truth about project labor agreements in a bid to threaten Gaylord with a lawsuit if they made an agreement to hire local workers first.
