February 5, 2010 – 10:03 pm
Remember the San Diego Unified School District’s (SDUSD) corrupt move to require project labor agreements (PLAs) on all construction projects funded by the voter-approved $2.1 billion proposition S? Big Labor said the PLAs would help control costs and guarantee a local workforce. As predicted, the PLA has already failed to deliver on Big Labor’s promises: WINNING [...]
February 5, 2010 – 2:45 pm
At a Feb. 2 House Education and Labor Committee hearing, U.S. Representative Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) questioned U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis on President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 for federal construction contracts and asked why the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) mandated a PLA on a Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H. After a [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Tagged Education and Labor, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Hearing, Pennsylvania, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Glenn Thompson, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
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February 4, 2010 – 3:50 am
A compelling article critical of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) by David G. Tuerck, executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research, appears in the current issue of the Cato Journal (Volume 30 Number 1, Winter 2010, “Are Unions Good for America?”). “Why Project Labor Agreements Are Not in the Public Interest” [...]
February 3, 2010 – 7:18 pm
Iowa Governor Chet Culver (D) today issued Executive Order 22 at the Iowa Building and Construction Trades conference in Des Moines. This order encourages state agencies to consider wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on state construction costing over $25 million. This order is very similar to President Obama’s Executive Order 13502, issued in [...]
February 3, 2010 – 11:25 am
Iowa Governor Chet Culver today issued an executive order encouraging wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on state construction projects at the Iowa Building and Construction Trades Convention in Des Moines. The Culver press release is below. The order is not publicly available yet, although it will likely be similar to President Obama’s Executive Order 13502, which [...]
February 3, 2010 – 1:52 am
The outcry over wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) continues in Indiana. The Indianapolis Star published yet another letter to the editor in response to their article, “An Ailing Process,” published on January 24. This most recent letter, titled, “Provide Equal Opportunity,” was published February 2. Provide Equal Opportunity Thank you for the Jan. [...]
February 2, 2010 – 11:28 am
In one of the most outstanding and complete breakdowns of the project labor agreement (PLA) issue in the blogosphere, BigGovernment.com contributor “Liberty Chick” outlines the sad history of PLAs nationwide and specifically in California in a post titled, “California’s Class Warfare: PLAs Pit Union and Nonunion Workers Against Each Other.” This post – complete with [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Tagged ABC California, BigGovernment.com, Blogosphere, California, California Environmental Quality Act, Greenmail, Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Increase Costs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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February 1, 2010 – 5:26 pm
TruthAboutPLAs.com friend and BigGovernment.com contributor Bret Jacobson wrote a great piece exposing Big Labor tactics in California in a January 29 BigGovernment.com post titled, “Unions’ Unfair PLAy in California.” Some elected leaders in California are coming up on a tough decision: do they do what’s right for taxpayers, or take from the poor and give [...]
February 1, 2010 – 10:25 am
There are few reports available that summarize how local governments across the United States are responding to the challenging economic and political circumstances of the last two years, but we at TheTruthAboutPLAs.com have been tracking the not-altogether-unexpected reaction at local governments in California. Considering the reputation of California as a state where government fiscal irresponsibility [...]
