While you were out rebuilding America (and the Obama Administration was busy crafting anti-competitive special interest schemes to push lucrative federal construction contracts to their largest political supporters) here are today’s media reports and notable statements on the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council’s final rule implementing President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 into federal procurement regulations. [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged AGC, Bloomberg, Boehner, Concrete Products, Daily Reporter, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Federal Times, NAM's ShopFloor, National Right to Work, Peter List, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, RedState, U.S. Chamber of COmmerce Chamber Post Blog
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While you were out rebuilding America, here are yesterday’s media reports and notable statements on today’s final rule implementing President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 into federal procurement regulations. Wall Street Journal (“Unions Win Public Contracting Row,” 4/12) Statement from House Education and Labor Committee Senior Republican Member Rep. John Kline (R-MN) Workforce Fairness Institute [...]
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Tagged Education and Labor, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, HaltTheAssault.com, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Portfolio, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Kline, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wall Street Journal, Worforce Fairness Institute, Workforce Fairness Institute
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Earlier today, we published a blog post providing readers with a status update and background information on the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council’s final rule implementing President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502. Below is an initital statement from ABC National on the final rule. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com will provide additional analysis on the final rule this week. Obama Administration Issues [...]
April 12, 2010 – 12:37 pm
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has breaking news about the federal government’s final rule promoting government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects costing more than $25 million. Today, the Office of the Federal Register’s Public Inspection Desk published a notice online that the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council’s final rule implementing President Obama’s Feb. 6, 2009, pro-PLA Executive Order [...]
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Tagged Boston Globe, Cartoon, Executive Order 13502, FAR Case 2009-005, FAR Council Proposed Rule, FAR Final Rule, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, OMB, OMB Memo, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Section 7, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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April 12, 2010 – 12:22 pm
The Baltimore Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors released a new radio ad criticizing Councilman Bill Henry’s proposed legislation to require community partnership agreements, wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements or PLAs by another name, on all city supported projects costing over $5 million. The ad is right on point. This bill won’t create jobs [...]
April 12, 2010 – 11:00 am
George Nash, director of commercial construction and development for Facchina Construction Co. and 2010 chairman of the board for Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Metro Washington chapter, calls out project labor agreements (PLAs) for what they are – corruption – in an editorial published by the Washington Business Journal on April 9. This editorial mentions [...]
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Tagged ABC Metro Washington, D.C. Council, local legislation, Nationals Park PLA, PLA Study, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, Study, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Washington Business Journal, Washington DC
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April 12, 2010 – 10:47 am
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) San Diego Chapter President Scott Crosby pressed Secretary-Treasurer and CEO for the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council Lorena Gonzalez to “come out and say” the real reason that their organization is opposing Chula Vista’s Proposition G, which would allow fair and open competition for city construction projects by prohibiting wasteful [...]
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Tagged 20 in 2010, 2010 Election, ABC California, California, Chula Vista, Debate, Kevin Dayton, local legislation, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, Prop G, Scott Crosby, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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In response to a recent Boston Herald report that Massachusetts stimulus work is going to out of state contractors, ABC Massachusetts chapter Greg Beeman offered his thoughts on how Gov. Deval Patrick’s push for PLAs on state work will make this problem worse in an April 8 op-ed published by the Herald. Here are the [...]
Minority contractor Harold Scott speaks out against proposed legislation to require community partnership agreements, otherwise known as wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs), on Baltimore City construction projects worth over $5 million in an editorials titled, “Baltimore Bill Hurts Minority Workers,” published April 7 by The Baltimore Sun. Here are the highlights: This bill [...]
Another embattled governor has reached out for the Big Labor lifeboat. On March 31, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn issued Executive Order 03 of 2010, which reaffirms former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s 2003 order essentially requiring wasteful project labor agreements (PLAs) on many state projects, and additionally, authorizes the state to use PLAs on federally assisted projects [...]
