union sues state of california re private investment

State Engineers Sue Over a Highway to Golden Gate Bridge Because of Foreign Investors; Potential Impact Nationwide
For construction workers in California, the new highway being built to the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco should have been great news—bringing thousands of jobs at a time when the state is furloughing workers to cope with a record deficit.

But the "Gateway to San Francisco" is being built in a partnership with foreign investors under a new law that allows private firms to build public roads in California. And state engineers, who are missing out on much of the design work, are suing to stop it.

The case is among the first brought by a union to stop a public project being handled by private investors, an area that is growing in the U.S. as cities and states struggle financially. Lawyers for the state who are fighting the lawsuit and others familiar with the case say it poses a threat to the $1 billion project, which is among the first public-private partnerships in California and a model nationwide for how municipalities can rebuild crumbling roads.
Wall Street Journal