Project Labor Agreements

The Central Labor Council, Attorney Jolene Kramer from Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, and Ingrid Brostrom from the UC Merced Community and Labor Center hosted a workshop on understanding community workforce agreements, local hiring policies and community benefit agreements.

Project Labor Agreements with Jolene Kramer:

Community Benefit Agreements with Ingrid Brostrom:

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Workshop Studies:

Evaluating the Impact of Project Labor Agreements on the Cost of Affordable Housing Projects: Proposition HHH in Los Angeles: https://bit.ly/plaimpact

The Impacts of Project Labor Agreements on Competition, Costs, Apprenticeships, and Diversity: https://bit.ly/plaseattle

About Jolene Kramer:

Ms. Kramer is a shareholder at Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld and joined the firm in 2012. Her public works practice focuses on local, regional and national competitive bidding, fair contracting, prevailing wage compliance, and labor code enforcement matters, as well as legislative drafting and campaigns. She also consults on federal wage surveys and Davis-Bacon matters. In addition, a substantial part of her practice is legislative work on behalf of building trades councils, including negotiation of project labor agreements and community benefits agreements.

Ms. Kramer also handles collections and bankruptcy matters, with a focus on representing unions and trust fund clients as creditors. Ms. Kramer also conducts labor arbitrations, prosecuting collective bargaining agreement violations concerning contract interpretation and employee disciplinary actions on behalf of union clients.

Prior to joining Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Ms. Kramer represented joint labor-management trust funds with an emphasis in ERISA litigation. She is admitted to practice law in the state of California and is a member of the San Francisco Bar Association and the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section.

Ms. Kramer received her undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of California at San Diego and her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.

About Ingrid Brostrom:

Ingrid Brostrom is an environmental justice attorney, educator, and advocate with decades of legal and policy experience. She is currently the Climate and the Rural Economy Program Director at the UC Merced Community and Labor Center. Ingrid previously served as Assistant Director of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, where she led the organization’s Toxic-Free Communities campaign. As part of that campaign, Ingrid coordinated the People’s Senate, a coalition of residents and advocates from communities impacted by toxic waste working to drive reform in California. She also taught environmental justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law.

Before graduating from UC College of Law, San Francisco, Ingrid interned with the Jane Goodall Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club. It was another internship, with the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment during her final summer in law school, that prompted Ingrid to shift her focus toward environmental justice. She has since advocated on behalf of vulnerable communities impacted by hazardous waste facilities and cleanup projects around the state.