December 30, 2009 – 9:42 am
The Imperial County Board of Supervisors (California) rejected a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement requirement as part of a green job training and weatherization/retrofit program at their December 22 meeting. Here is Associated Builders and Contractors – San Diego Chapter’s press release: Imperial County Supervisors Reject Big Labor’s Monopoly Scam Disguised as Green Jobs [...]
December 29, 2009 – 11:41 am
Washington Examiner Beltway Confidential columnist Barbara Hollingsworth covered the controversial project labor agreement (PLA) on a federal construction project in Washington, D.C. that has been in the news (GSA Admits Jumping the Gun with PLA Gift to Unions, 12/28). The General Services Administration admitted it made a mistake when it placed a non-competitive, cost-raising, union-pleasing Project Labor Agreement [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged DOL, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GAO, GSA, Lafayette Building, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, Project Labor Agreements, Washington Examiner
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December 27, 2009 – 12:44 pm
Yesterday we raised concerns about dual bidding experiments utilized by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) that will determine whether or not PLAs are appropriate on a pilot program of ten federal construction projects. Today the Washington Times wrote about one of the GSA pilot projects in Washington, D.C. – the Lafayette Building on 811 Vermont Avenue - [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Brett McMahon, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GSA, Lafayette Building, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Washington DC, Washington Times
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December 26, 2009 – 8:49 am
Oregon’s Daily Journal of Commerce story about the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland mentions how the GSA is evaluating project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects funded by federal stimulus money (“Green Wyatt Goes to Howard S. Wright,” 12/18). The project, paid for with federal stimulus money, has attracted attention for [...]
December 24, 2009 – 9:55 am
The Washington Examiner published an Op-Ed by Brett McMahon of ABC member Miller & Long Concrete that discusses gifts to Big Labor like Executive Order 13502 that will harm the economic health of the construction industry during this holiday season (“‘Tis the season for construction job loss caused by politics,” 12/24). While many are receiving gifts this holiday [...]
December 24, 2009 – 8:58 am
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the White House, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Executive Order 13502 framed above the mantel with perfection, Evidence of Big Labor’s influence in the 2008 Presidential election. FAR Council members were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Final Rule fairies danced in their [...]
December 23, 2009 – 11:07 am
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), America’s #1 Taxpayer Watchdog Group, published my guest column about Executive Order 13502 and federal government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in their Spring 2009 edition of Government WasteWatch (“Pro-Union White House Order Guarantees Government Waste,” 4/30). The column, published online last week, is below. Government spending watchdogs should be outraged by a recent White [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Citizens Against Government Waste, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Take Action
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December 22, 2009 – 9:43 am
More and more people are starting to notice President Obama’s handout (Executive Order 13502) to the construction unions. This time, it is Glen Meakem. Mr. Meakem is an economic innovator, Gulf War veteran, Harvard graduate and a radio host on several stations in Pennsylvania – and he thinks PLAs are “morally offensive.” Here is an excerpt [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Gus Perea, keystone, Op-Ed, Pennsylvania, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Radio Interview, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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December 21, 2009 – 6:07 am
On Wednesday, December 16, the Oceanside City Council voted to place a proposed city charter (Proposed Charter Text) on the June 2010 ballot for Oceanside voters to consider. This charter includes a guarantee of fair and open bid competition for city construction contracts that is based on ten year-old language in Section 4-113 of the [...]
December 18, 2009 – 7:16 am
The Central Penn Business Journal’s Op-Ed by Gus Perea warns of the economic consequences of Big Labor paybacks via Executive Order 13502 and project labor agreements (PLAs) (“Pennsylvania Taxpayers and Employers: Beware of Big Labor Paybacks,” 12/17). On the rare occasion that a nonunion contractor wins a PLA contract, the order would bully its employees into joining [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Central Penn Business Journal, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Gus Perea, Op-Ed, Pennsylvania, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements
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