Governor’s Business & Job Recovery Task Force Should Give an Equal Chance to All Qualified Workers

As the California Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery meets to formulate plans to restore and rebuild the state’s economy, it should remember Gov. Gavin Newsom’s official slogan: “California for All.”

The state recognized construction as an essential business and California needs all hands to help rebuild the state as quickly as possible. When it comes to actual building of hospitals, housing, police and fire stations, transportation and government funded building projects, a thumb should not be put on the scale to favor one trained and educated building group over another.

Capitol Weekly Podcast with Michele Daugherty

As California looks at loosening some restrictions on non-essential businesses, one business has been going about their work as best they can all along: the construction industry.