October 10, 2009 – 1:00 am
The Office of Manchester, New Hampshire Mayor Frank Guinta issued a press release on 10/8, expressing concern that, “jobs for Manchester residents and New Hampshire firms will be shut out by the Obama administration’s insistence that the Job Corps Center, slated to be built at the Northwest Business Park at Hackett Hill, be contracted by [...]
October 9, 2009 – 9:02 pm
Ken Holmes, president of North Branch Construction, appeared on Fox Business Channel this afternoon to discuss the discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the new U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire . You can view the video here.
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Fox News, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLA Video, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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October 9, 2009 – 11:09 am
Rep. John Kline, senior Republican member of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, issued a press release warning Americans that the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire and Executive Order 13502 is the “evil twin” of the Employee Free Forced Choice [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Education and Labor, EFCA, Employee Free Choice Act, Executive Order 13502, H.R. 983, Legislation, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Kline, S. 90, Take Action, The Government Neutrality in Contracting Act
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October 8, 2009 – 12:08 am
Glenn Beck mentioned the discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the new U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire on his 10/7 program. A brief blurb about this issue appeared on the 9.12 Project website, which linked to The Washington Times story (“Obama Puts Union Strings on Federal [...]
October 8, 2009 – 12:07 am
The media continues to take interest in the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the U.S. Department of Labor’s new $35 million Job Corps center in Manchester, New Hampshire The Concord Monitor ran a piece that features a quote from a qualified New Hampshire nonunion business, demonstrating that a PLA cuts competition (“Builder Confronts Union Law,” [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Concord Monitor, DOL, Executive Order 13502, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Washington Examiner
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October 7, 2009 – 1:01 pm
Kent Hoover, Washington bureau chief for Bizjournals, is the latest to cover the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the U.S. Department of Labor’s new $35 million Job Corps center in Manchester, New Hampshire in his post titled, “Live Union or Die” on Portfolio.com. Here’s an excerpt: North Branch Construction, a nonunion contractor in Concord, [...]
October 7, 2009 – 11:28 am
The Washington Times covered President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 and the bid protest filed this week with the Government Accountability Office by North Branch Construction, a Concord, N.H.-based general contractor and member of ABC (“Obama Puts Union Strings on Federal Jobs,” 10/7). The focus of the bid protest is a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Brett McMahon, Executive Order 13502, Legal Challenge, Manchester, New Hampshire, pensions, PLA Basics, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Right to Work, Washington Times
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October 7, 2009 – 7:35 am
An Op-Ed critical of President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 by David G. Tuerck, chairman and professor of economics and executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) at Suffolk University, ran in today’s Boston Globe (“Obama Kowtows to Labor Unions,” 10/7). Professor Tuerck, author of a new BHI study called ”Project Labor Agreements [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Big Dig, Boston Globe, David G. Tuerck, Executive Order 13502, Massachusetts, Op-Ed, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, Project Labor Agreements
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October 6, 2009 – 11:46 am
TheTruthAboutPLAs blogged about the first proposed government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) since President Obama signed Executive Order 13502 (“First Federal Project Labor Agreement Under Obama Administration Riles Senator Gregg,” 9/18). On 10/2, a discriminatory and costly PLA was officially included in the contract solicitation for the construction of a U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Senator Gregg, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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October 6, 2009 – 9:56 am
In an October 5 commentary titled, “Is MSU Hyping Project Labor Agreements,” Paul Kersey from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy wonders if an October 13 conference held by the Michigan State University (MSU) School of Labor and Industrial Relations is promoting PLAs without examining the wasteful and discriminatory impact of these special interest handouts. Here’s an excerpt: A [...]
