AB 1751 is Anti-Worker.
AB 1751 would pay the skilled workers who build California's homes a flat $28 an hour, roughly half of today's wage, and take away their health insurance, pension, and training. Workers need real protections, not a bill that strips away their security.
Same worker. Same skills. Same city.
A pay cut of nearly half, with health insurance and retirement erased.
Here's what a worker building homes in Los Angeles earns today, next to what AB 1751 would pay them for the exact same work. Same job, same skills, for nearly half the pay, with every benefit stripped away.
AB 1751 lowers wages, strips benefits, and won't make housing more affordable. It was rushed through with no input from workers.
This is what the bill really does. Marketed as housing policy, AB 1751 creates a new minimum wage scale that drives construction pay down, not up. The label doesn't match the bill.
The flat $28 an hour is the basic wage only. No health and welfare, no pension, no vacation, no training. The benefits that make construction a real career, gone.
Workers were shut out of the talks and never saw the amendments until they dropped at 9pm on April 20. No real chance to weigh in.
A vote for AB 1751 is a vote to pay construction workers less than they already make building homes today.
It has protected California workers for nearly 100 years. Cutting their pay to below-market wages won't solve the housing crisis.
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