EPISODE · Aug 14, 2026 · 32 MIN
CA Building Trades on Proposition 45 and the November Fight
from America’s Work Force Union Podcast · host BMA Media Group
It is being marketed as a permitting reform and affordability act. But the 41 pages of California's Proposition 45 bypass the state's landmark environmental review law, strip local elected officials of meaningful discretion over what gets built in their communities, include no requirement that any savings reach the public and contain a provision that overrides any conflicting law — including environmental protections. On today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast, State Building and Construction Trades Council of California President Chris Hannan explains what Proposition 45 actually does and why a coalition of more than 270 organizations — including the California building trades, the environmental movement, firefighters and educators — is working together to defeat it in November. He also discusses Climate Jobs California, the new labor-academia initiative the council is building to advance clean energy in California, the right way. Visit noprop45ca.com to get involved and cabuildingtrades.org for more.
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State Building and Construction Trades Council of California President Chris Hannan discusses Proposition 45, a November 2026 California ballot measure backed by the California Chamber of Commerce that he says bypasses the California Environmental Quality Act, strips local elected officials of meaningful discretion and protects no one except the for-profit developers who stand to benefit — and the growing coalition of more than 270 organizations, including building trades and environmentalists with no daylight between them, working to defeat it.
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