L.A. Grand Jury Report Finds Charter Cities Have Serious Fiscal Accountability Problems

August 13, 2012 - A new report from the Los Angeles County Grand Jury has found that many charter cities face major problems, including lacking strategic planning, spotty financial controls and have few methods of measuring whether they are reaching goals. (Read More)

Redding City Council Abandons Charter Saves Prevailing Wage

June 8, 2011 - Working men and women in the Redding area in far Northern California won a great victory Tuesday night, when the Redding City Council voted 3-2 to abandon the process of becoming a charter city, an idea backed by anti-worker forces hoping to drive down wages by exempting the city from state prevailing wage laws. (Read More)

Voters Reject Charter City Plan

March 16, 2011 - By an overwhelming margin of 72 to 28 percent, voters in the city of Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles County have rejected a ballot measure to convert from a general law to a charter city, a move that would have enabled city officials to slash the wages of workers on city construction projects by exempting themselves from state prevailing wage requirements. (Read More)

SBCTC to Appeal Vista Case

April 30, 2009 - Following the ruling by a sharply divided state court of appeal that the City of Vista - because it is a charter city - is not required to pay prevailing wages on public construction projects, the State Building and Construction Trades Council announced plans to appeal the decision to the California Supreme Court. (Read More)

ABC Defeated in San Diego, Again!

July 10, 2008 - A California Court of Appeal has denied a petition by supporters of an anti-union ballot measure in Chula Vista to place it on the November ballot. The denial means the measure WILL NOT appear on the ballot, barring some further action by the Supreme Court. (Read More)

Superior Court Agrees on the Merits of Charter City Case

December 10, 2007 - Last week, the State Building & Construction Trades Council (SBCTC) took an important step forward in its lawsuit to require California charter cities to pay prevailing wages on city public works construction projects. In July, the SBCTC filed a lawsuit against the City of Vista in San Diego County to establish that California charter cities must comply with the state's prevailing wage law. (Read More)

CA Supreme Court Fails to Address Prevailing Wages for Charter Cities

December 20, 2004 - The California Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision today in City of Long Beach v. Dept. of Industrial Relations, but the Court did not decide whether charter cities are subject to the state's prevailing wage law. Instead, the Court stated that it would leave the question open. (Read More)

Charter Cities Resolution Passed in Assembly & Senate

September 15, 2003 - The California Senate and State Assembly passed a critical resolution in favor of the payment of prevailing wages by charter cities. (Read More)

Historic Victory for Construction Workers in Charter Cities

July 14, 2003 was a rude awakening for the state's 105 Charter Cities. The California Appellate Court ruled that they must pay prevailing wages on public works projects, (click here to read the court decision) correcting a 71-year old error by the courts. (Read More)

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