Big Labor has a strong ally in U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. We previously wrote how she openly supports discriminatory and costly PLAs. If you won’t take our word that Secretary Solis personally wants to advance Big Labor’s agenda, read the Secretary Solis interview in The Washington Post (“Solis Hopes to ‘Level the Playing [...]
PLAs often require bidders to participate in union multi-employer pension programs mandated by collective bargaining agreements. Contributing to multi-employer pension plans is problematic for non-union contractors for a variety of reasons highlighted here. An interesting article courtesy of Chang Ruthenberg and Long Employee Benefit Attorneys warns employers about the problems of contributing to multiemployer pension plans (“Cautions [...]
We have written a few times about a Ingham County, Michigan PLA proposal before the Ingham County Board of Commissioners. On June 23, the board voted 13-2 to approve a policy requiring that PLAs be considered for county-financed construction jobs valued at $100,000 or more. Here are the details of the final proposal, according to this BNA [...]
After reading our previous posts on Executive Order 13502, a TruthAboutPLAs.com reader contacted me with concerns about Section 7 of Obama’s Executive Order 13502, which asks the Secretary of Labor, OMB Director and other Obama administration officials to make recommendations about the broader use of PLAs on federal and federally assisted construction projects. The reader — a [...]
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Tagged Executive Order 12818, Executive Order 12836, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, GAO PLA Report, PLA Archives, PLA Basics, PLAs, President Bill Clinton, President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Senate PLA Hearing
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Pennsylvania is building a series of jails around the Commonwealth and construction unions are lobbying hard to ensure discriminatory and costly PLAs on each jail. These sweetheart deals for Big Labor will funnel lucrative state construction contracts directly to unionized contractors and their union workforce with little to no competition from non-union contractors and the more than eight out [...]
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Tagged Benner Township, Department of General Services, Hill International, Keystone Research Center, Pennsylvania, PLAs, Press Conference, Project Labor Agreements, Rendell, Rockview, Sen. Corman, The Lockhaven Express
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On 6/19, the Brentwood, California City Council agreed to a project labor agreement (PLA) that will govern the construction of its $65 million downtown Civic Center. You can learn more about the unfortunate decision and details of the discriminatory and costly PLA here and here. This article provides a concise overview of the events leading up to [...]
It is worth noting that the Daily Reporter wrote a brief article about the regulations for Executive Order 13502 that have yet to come out of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) (“Builders wait for federal PLA rules,” 6/16). President Barack Obama on Feb. 6 signed an order lifting the federal government’s ban of PLAs on [...]
Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail — a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) – FOX News Channel’s Neil Cavuto did [...]
Despite efforts to educate Ingham County residents about wasteful and discriminatory union-only project labor agreements through television news coverage and by mail, the County Commission moved one step closer to requiring PLAs on county projects costing over $100,000. The Commission’s County Services Committee voted 4-2 in favor of an amended version of the PLA requirement [...]
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com blogged (5/21) about TV news coverage of the Ingham County, Michigan proposed ordinance to require discriminatory and costly PLAs for county projects with labor costs over $100,000. Note: One wonders how an entity can determine labor costs prior to issuing competitive bids? The Lansing State Journal reports that ABC Michigan sent anti-PLA postcards to county residents [...]
