January 7, 2010 – 5:57 pm
After a rancorous meeting on Tuesday, January 5, the Long Beach, California City Council voted 7-1 to direct the city manager to evaluate the potential for a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) on the $35 million Long Beach airport terminal improvement project. Here’s an excerpt from the Long Beach Press-Telegram’s coverage (Our emphasis [...]
January 7, 2010 – 9:03 am
California’s Public CEO, a publication dedicated to the education of local government officials and employees about current events in public service, examined the ongoing debate about project labor agreements (PLAs) in California public contracting (“Debate Over Union Requirement Rages Project-by-Project,” 1/6). The article provides a variety of anecdotes supporting and opposing common arguments about government-mandated PLAs. We highlighted a [...]
January 7, 2010 – 5:59 am
Sensing that 2010 might be a tough year for Big Labor and their special interest allies in San Diego area, it appears that local union bosses are not in the mood to celebrate. And they decided to ruin the fun for everyone else too. Here is an excerpt from Michael M. Rosen’s commentary published in [...]
January 6, 2010 – 9:30 am
The New York Post reported that Citi Field, the new $850 million home of MLB’s New York Mets, is riddled with construction defects (“Mets in ‘Foul’ Territory,” 9/6). Financed with $697 million in tax-free bonds from the city and state that will be paid off by the Mets organization, Citi Field was constructed with a discriminatory [...]
January 5, 2010 – 6:38 am
Here at TheTruthAboutPLAs.com, we want to make sure we catch any important PLA-related developments that occurred over the holidays. In a December 22 editorial, the Riverside, CA Press-Enterprise expressed its frustration with the Riverside Community College District Board’s recent handout to Big Labor in the form of a project labor agreement (PLA) requirement on all [...]
January 4, 2010 – 11:39 am
Ohio’s Tribune Chronicle today published an editorial critical of project labor agreements (PLAs) and Executive Order 13502 (“Workers Should Be Angry About Union Preference,” 1/4). Add it to the long list of newspapers across the country opposed to discriminatory and costly government-mandated PLAs. Most construction workers are not members of labor unions. They should be [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged A.J. Celebrezze, Cleveland, dck North America, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GSA, Lafayette Building, Ohio, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Tribune Chronicle
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