Monthly Archives: April 2009

100 Days of the Obama Presidency: Remembering Executive Order 13502: Promoting Project Labor Agreeements

April 29, 2009 – 9:15 am

Today, April 29, marks the 100th Day of President Barack Obama’s presidency. This week the media has been churning out 100 day reviews of the Obama administration on diverse topics ranging from the Foreign Policy to Labor such as National Journal’s 4/25 piece, “Labor Holds Its Fire. Despite Setbacks, Labor Leaders Have Greeted the New [...]

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Community Fights San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Project Labor Agreement

April 28, 2009 – 9:24 am

If you live in the San Diego area you have likely read newspaper articles or seen TV reports about a controversial 3-2 vote taken by the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Board Members to direct staff to negotiate a PLA on construction work funded by Proposition S, a $2.1 billion construction bond passed by [...]

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In their words: Victims of the SDUSD Project Labor Agreement

April 28, 2009 – 8:20 am

The PLA on $2.1 billion worth of San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) construction projects funded by Proposition S is going to prevent qualified local merit shop contractors and apprentices from working on school construction paid for by their own tax dollars unless SDUSD school board members reconsider their support for this costly and discriminatory PLA. [...]

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Project Labor Agreement Basics: PLAs Increase the Cost of Construction

April 27, 2009 – 10:11 am

If you read the last post, you have learned how PLAs eliminate merit shop contractors. Fact: PLAs eliminate merit shop contractors and their employees from working on PLA construction projects. So how does this fact impact construction owners and taxpayers? Academic studies overwhelmingly show that union-only PLAs increase construction costs between 10 percent and 20 percent [...]

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Project Labor Agreement Basics: What is a PLA?

April 24, 2009 – 3:03 pm

A government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) is an anti-competitive and costly scheme designed by Big Labor and sympathetic public officials to funnel construction contracts to unionized contractors and union members while cutting competition from qualified merit shop contractors and their skilled merit shop employees. A PLA is a multi-employer, multi-union, pre-hire agreement that PLA proponents market [...]

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Welcome to The Truth About Project Labor Agreements (PLAs)

April 23, 2009 – 8:38 pm

On behalf of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and our 25,000 merit shop construction and construction-related firms in 79 chapters across the United States, welcome to TheTruthAboutPLAs.com.   We have designed this website as part of a broader effort to educate ABC members, the building and construction industry, public officials, the media, taxpayers — and [...]

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