Metro - File #: 2019-0651

• File #: 2019-0651
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 8/15/2019
• In control: Construction Committee
• On agenda: 9/19/2019
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE the: A. Status update on the Project Labor Agreement and Construction Careers Policy through the quarter ending June 2019; and B. Metro Workforce Disparity Study on Women in the Trades.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Construction, Construction industry, Construction Support, Contractors, Design build, Disparity Study, Division 16, Gender, Informational Report, International Brotherhood Of Teamsters, Labor, Labor agreements, Local transportation, Los Angeles International Airport, Measure M, Metro Blue Line, Metro Crenshaw Line, Metro Equity Platform, Metro Green Line, Metro Purple Line, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail C Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Rail K Line, Minorities, Outreach, Patsaouras Plaza Busway Station, Pilot studies, Plan, Policy, Prime Contractor, Program, Project, Project Labor Agreement/Construction Careers Policy, Public works, Rehabilitation (Maintenance), Soundwall, State departments of transportation, Tracking systems, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, United States Department Of Transportation, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2, Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station

Meeting_Body
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT/CONSTRUCTION CAREERS POLICY (PLA/CCP)

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the:

A. Status update on the Project Labor Agreement and Construction Careers Policy through the quarter ending June 2019; and

B. Metro Workforce Disparity Study on Women in the Trades.

Issue
ISSUE

In January 2012, the Board approved the Project Labor Agreement (PLA) with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council and the Construction Careers Policy (CCP), with a subsequent renewal in January 2017. The PLA/CCP encourages construction employment and training opportunities for members of economically disadvantaged areas throughout the United States on Metro's construction projects. An added value of the PLA is that work stoppages are prohibited.
This report provides an update on the PLA/CCP through the quarter ending June 2019.

Background
BACKGROUND

In accordance to the Board approved PLA and CCP (PLA/CCP), prime contractors are required to provide Metro with monthly reports detailing progress towards meeting the targeted worker hiring goals. Additionally, consistent with Metro's Labor Compliance policy and federal Executive Order 11246 (EO 11246), the prime contractors provide Metro with worker utilization data by ethnicity and gender. In accordance with EO 11246, Metro's program-wide goal for female participation on PLA/CCP construction projects is 6.90%.

Metro continues to advance several initiatives with focus on increasing the overall female participation attainment such as: development of an action plan as presented in November 2017; deployment of a performance score card including the development and distribution of Women in the Trades Resource Guide; and continued engagement with Metro's prime contractors and job coordinators with a focus on female worker outreach, recruitment and rete...