(NASCLA) Commercial General Building Contractor license examination
This reciprocity may invite interstate developers,
politically connected with legislative-lobbying experience, to amend out AFCI for their laborers doing electrical.
Like other states, California Labor Code
108.2(b) exempts general contractors, independent contractors, and the self-employed from
journeyman cards, or apprenticeships, so interstate NASCLA developers may bring their cheap laborers to rebuild, after fires & natural disasters.
Like most states, CLC
108.2 forces apprenticeships & journeyman-card schemes on Electrical Contractors only, so EC's can't compete with GC laborers, and may lose any comparative-skills advantage with AFCI, if eventually amended out.
With no need for JW's, interstate developers may bring more entry-level jobs, and those workers will eventually sit for a license exam. Laborer work-hours certified by GC's are more qualified to sit for GC-license exams.
Interstate developers will eventually pump out all sorts of licensed laborers doing electrical, flooding the market with cheaper house flippers, and panel flippers, which don't need no stinking apprenticeships.
More EC shops will fold, or apprenticeships & JW cards may become unenforceable.
