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EXHIBIT 2 Section 3.8 Core Employ 3.8.1 Contractors not currently signatory to a Master Labor Agreement may employ, as needed, first, a member of its core workforce, then an employee through a referral from the appropriate Union hiring hall, then a second core employee, then a second employee through the referral system, and so on until a maximuln of live (5) core employees are employed in the Contractor's workforce, thereafter, all additional employees in the affected trade or craft shall be requisitioned frown the craft hiring hall in accordance with Section 3.3. In the laying off of employees, the number of core employees shall not exceed one-half talus one of the workforce for an employer with 10 or fewer employees, assuming the remaining employees are qualified to undertake the work available. As part of this process, and in order to facilitate the contract administration procedures, as well as appropriate fringe benefit fund coverage, all Contractors shall require their core employees and any other persons employed other than through the referral f process, to register with the appropriate Union hiring hall, if any, prior to their first day of employment at a project site. 3.8.2 The core work force is comprised of those employees whose names appeared on the Contractors active payroll for sixty(60) of the one hundred (100) working days immediately before award of Project Work to the Contractor; who have worked at least two-thousand (2,000) j hours in the construction craft in which they are employed, during the prior four ( ) years; who possess any license required by state or federal law for the Project Work to be performed; and, who have the ability to safely perform the basic functions of the applicable trade. I 3.8.3 Prior to each Contractor performing any work on the.Project, each Contractor shall provide a list of his core employees to the CWA Administrator and the Trades Council. Failure to do so will prohibit the Contractor lroan using any core employees. Upon request by any Party to this Agreement, the Contractor hiring any core employee shall provide satisfactory proof(i.e., payroll records, quarterly tax records, driver's license, voter registration, postal address: and such governmental documentation) evidencing the core employee's qualification as a core employee to the CWA Administrator and the Trades Council. Section 3.9 Tijne for Referral If any Union's registration and referral system does not fulfill the requirements for specific classifications requested by any Contractor within forty-eight (48) hours (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays), that Contractor may use y to ment em p sources other than the Union registration and referral services, and may employ applicants meeting such classification from any other available source. The Contractors shall inforin the Union of any applicants hired from other sources and such applicants shall register with the appropriate hiring hall, if any, before commencing work. Section 3.10 Lack of Referral Procedure If a signatory Union does not have a join referral { system as sett forth in Section 3.3 above, the Contractors shall give the Union equal opportunity to refer applicants. Contractors shall notify the Union of employees so hired, as set forth in Section. 3.5. i Section 3.l l Union Membership Employees are not required to become or remain union members or pay dues or fees as a condition of performing Prc7ject Work render this Agreement. Community Workforce Agreement 12 City of Santa Ana City Council 16 — 224 5/19/2026