Comments on: Project Labor Agreement Basics: What is a PLA?

By: Brian Soucy

Brian Soucy — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:31:21 +0000

To Travis:
What you have said makes absolutely no sense. LU Hiring halls, have what is called a short call list. If a job is less than two weeks long, it is considered a short call. When you are dispatched on a short call, you don’t lose your spot in the out of work book. So your statement is makes no sense. Also, if a union is unable to man a job with their members, they are able to hire non-members at any wage necessary.

As for everything else mentioned in this article, I don’t have the time or patience.

I will have to state the primary mission of unions, and the main difference between a union skilled worker and a non-union skilled worker. The main things that unions fight for are Health Insurance and Retirement and Pensions.

There are other goals that the unions try to achieve such as safety and decent pay, but those are not the primary drivers.

Retirement, and health insurance for skilled workers. That is it! Is that such a bad thing?

All this spin lately makes me sick.

By: Travis Post

Travis Post — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:40:04 +0000

We were awarded a contract on a project that has a schedule of two weeks to complete with a labor force of 4 employees due to the PLA we have spent more than 80 hours on paper work alone The union can only supply one employee out of 4 because none of there people want to only work for 2 weeks and get placed at the bottom of the list no my employees have to sign with the union to work we also have to comply with LA local hiring rules for this project and the job is a we build project section 8 So as a merit contractor we are faced with this scenario only hire from the Union that cant supply use employees even for prevailing wage for a job I could send 4 Trained employees to for two weeks and be done we have not even started this project and it has cost are company double ! California is broke for a reason

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