December 17, 2009 – 10:01 am
The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives has posted their testimony to the Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee concerning government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on PA projects and Representative John Bear’s H.B. 2010, The Open Contracting Act, that would prohibit these special interest handouts on state construction. As usual, the Commonwealth Foundation knocks it out [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Groups Opposed to PLAs, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Dick Stevenson, Rep. Jerry Stern, Rep. John Bear, Rep. Matt Gabler, Save the Endangered Species, Saylor, State Legislation, Union Contractors Opposed to PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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December 17, 2009 – 5:41 am
Readers of TheTruthAboutPLAs.com know that we have closely followed a proposal before the Lucas County, OH Board of Supervisors that would require PLAs on all county projects valued at $25,000 or greater that receive county funds. Unfortunately, on Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors approved the PLA proposal, which is sure to discriminate against qualified and local nonunion contractors [...]
December 16, 2009 – 8:56 am
The New Orleans City Business ran a story on the anticipated impact of project labor agreements (PLAs) on Louisiana contractors and the greater New Orleans construction industry (Project Labor Ageeements Irk Contractors, 12/14). Construction industry officials insist it will have the opposite effect and severely impact right-to-work states such as Louisiana, where union labor is [...]
December 15, 2009 – 5:14 am
From 2001 until Feb. 6, 2009 Executive Order 13202 protected at least $147.1 billion worth of federal construction projects from discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs). In addition, the order prohibited PLAs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of federally-assisted construction projects across the country. Federally-assisted projects are local, state or private construction [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, OMB, OMB Memo, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Section 7, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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December 14, 2009 – 5:41 am
The construction industry is still waiting for the federal government to issue a final rule on regulations that promote project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects exceeding $25 million. Five months ago (July 14) the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council issued a proposed rule (FAR Case 2009-005, Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction [...]
December 11, 2009 – 1:47 pm
Video from the Thursday, December 10 Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee hearing on the wasteful and discriminatory impact of project labor agreements (PLAs) and Representative John Bear’s H.B. 2010, “The Open Contracting Act,” that would prohibit PLAs on state and state-funded construction projects is now available. Pennsylvania lawmakers, nonunion contractors, employees and other business groups [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Groups Opposed to PLAs, Hearing, PLA Video, PLAs, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Rep. Dick Stevenson, Rep. Jerry Stern, Rep. John Bear, Save the Endangered Species, State Legislation, Union Contractors Opposed to PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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December 11, 2009 – 6:00 am
On Tuesday, December 8, voters in the City of Oceanside, California soundly repudiated the union political agenda by rejecting a union-backed and union-funded recall effort against Councilman Jerry Kern. As California Republican Party Chairman wrote on December 9 in www.FlashReport.org: In a crushing defeat that will cause reassessment of labor’s political muscle locally, the union-led [...]
December 10, 2009 – 9:35 am
Yesterday the Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee held a hearing on project labor agreements (PLAs) and legislation (House Bill 2010, The Open Contracting Act) introduced by Reps. Stan Saylor (R-York) and John Bear (R-Lancaster) that would prohibit government-mandated PLAs on PA and PA-funded construction projects. PA lawmakers, nonunion contractors, employees and other business groups and construction associations [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Groups Opposed to PLAs, Hearing, Pennsylvania, PLA Video, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Dick Stevenson, Rep. Jerry Stern, Rep. John Bear, Rep. Matt Gabler, Save the Endangered Species, Saylor, State Legislation, Union Contractors Opposed to PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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December 9, 2009 – 7:25 am
Today the Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee will hold a hearing on project labor agreements (PLAs) and legislation (House Bill 2010, The Open Contracting Act) introduced by Reps. Stan Saylor (R-York) and John Bear (R-Lancaster) that would prohibit government-mandated PLAs on PA and PA-funded construction projects. The committee is scheduled to hear testimony from stakeholders [...]
December 8, 2009 – 9:26 am
The debate over government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in New Jersey is in the news again. New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press ran a scathing editorial opposed to PLAs (Costly PLAs Must Be Ended, 11/16) that TheTruthAboutPLAs covered here. The paper published an Op-Ed defending PLAs by Phillip E. Cooney, vice president of the New Jersey Carpenter Contractor [...]
