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Video Clips/Adam Prestidge
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Adam Prestidge

45:06 - 46:02

"we'd be fully supportive of taking an additional step to have the bill, the legislation, require that the project establish an apprenticeship program that is consistent with industry standards and would be negotiated between the project and the appropriate labor unions"

“we'd be fully supportive of taking an additional step to have the bill, the legislation, require that the project establish an apprenticeship program that is consistent with industry standards and would be negotiated between the project and the appropriate labor unions”
Speaker
Adam Prestidge
Timestamp
45:06 – 46:02
Source
Alaska Legislature: Joint Conference on HB381, 6/27/26, 2PM
Community
Alaska News
Location
Alaska
Captured at
June 27, 2026

From the transcript

Uh, the last point is, in addition to adding language to the bill that would mandate the MOU and basically make the MOU legally— make the MOU the requirement of the legislation, we'd be fully supportive of taking an additional step to have the bill, the legislation, require that the project establish an apprenticeship program that is consistent with industry standards and would be negotiated between the project and the appropriate labor unions, so we'd be very happy to include that. Again, these are not substantive— I wouldn't call these substantive labor concerns. You know, I think you saw we're very proud of the signing ceremony we had with the unions. We're very proud of the role that they'll play on this project. We just need the legislation to be written the right way, and so I would call these more, you know, legislative drafting issues than anything else.

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