WHAT:
High Desert Corridor Joint Powers Agency (HDC JPA) Board members and various Union Labor representatives will ceremoniously sign two landmark agreements for the High Desert Corridor High Speed Rail Project. The agreements consist of a Community Workforce Agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding that codify the project’s use of highly skilled union labor—an action that will create thousands of essential jobs required to construct, operate, and maintain the HDC High Speed Rail Project. Estimates project the HDC High Speed Rail Project will generate $12B in economic activity for the Antelope Valley and surrounding region.
WHO:
HDC JPA Members:
- Chair Kathryn Barger, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Fifth District
- Vice Chair Elizabeth Becerra, Mayor, City of Victorville and
- Austin Bishop, Mayor, City of Palmdale
Organized Labor Representatives:
- Chris Hannan, President, State Building and Construction Trades Council of California
- Ernesto Medrano, Executive Secretary, LA/OC Building Trades Council
- L. Efaw, National Legislative Director, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
- Joe Fraley, International Representative, International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART)
- Kelly Foster International Representative, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- Juan Estrada, District 19 General Chairman, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
WHEN:
Monday, July 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Metrolink Palmdale Transportation Center
39000 Clock Tower Plaza Drive E, Palmdale, CA 93550
DETAILS/BACKGROUND:
Visuals will include HDJ JPA Board members and Union leaders ceremoniously signing two documents in front of the clock towner at the Palmdale Transportation Center. This center will be demolished and replaced with a state-of-the-art transportation hub that will anchor the HDC High Speed Rail Project. Renderings of the HDC High Speed Rail Project are available here and will also be on display at the event.
The project is depicted in the map below as a dashed line in a burgundy hue. More information about the HDC High Speed Rail Project is available at www.highdesertcorridor.org. Questions about the project can be directed to Arthur Sohikian, Executive Director, High Desert Corridor Joint Powers Agency by dialing (213) 379-1551 or via email at sohikian@highdesertcorridor.org.