Monthly Archives: May 2010

The Inspiration for Proposition G in Chula Vista: San Diego Union Greenmail Against the San Diego Padres, Independent Power Companies, High Rise Developers, and Gaylord Entertainment

May 29, 2010 – 4:13 pm

On May 27, KNSD Channel 7/39 News in San Diego (an NBC affiliate) showed a three-minute story on Proposition G, the voter initiative on the June 8 ballot in the City of Chula Vista to prohibit the city from entering into contracts that require contractors to sign project labor agreements (PLAs). The story was also [...]

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Keying Cars, Stealing Signs, and Project Labor Agreements: Caught on Tape Trying to Derail Fair and Open Competition

May 26, 2010 – 8:47 am

Perhaps there’s a reason why the annual Gallup poll of honesty and ethics in professions gives a very low rating to “labor union leaders.” It increasingly appears that voters in Chula Vista, California are likely on June 8 to approve Proposition G, a fair and open competition ordinance prohibiting the City of Chula Vista from [...]

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Letter to the Editor: Project Labor Agreement Hinders Banks Work

May 25, 2010 – 5:47 pm

In a May 25 letter to the editor (“Project Labor Agreement Hinders Banks Work,” 5/25/10) published by the Cincinnati Enquirer, Robert Strobel of Lithko Contracting, Inc. points out the real reason that Big Labor is pushing for PLAs on all future Banks riverfront development projects. Here is the letter to the editor: Project Labor Agreements [...]

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Merit Shop Associations Make Wasteful School District Accountable to Voters

May 25, 2010 – 3:46 pm

For the first time, the Merit Shop in California is making a serious investment to oppose a campaign to pass a local school bond initiative.  The board of trustees of the Concord-based Mt. Diablo Unified School District plopped a $348 million bond measure (Measure C) on the June 8 ballot, apparently without expecting any serious [...]

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Big Labor Spreads Lies to Defeat Chula Vista’s Prop G

May 25, 2010 – 1:43 am

On June 8, 2010, residents of Chula Vista, California will vote on Proposition G, which guarantees fair and open competition for public works projects in Chula Vista.  Visit  www.fairnessforchulavista.com to learn why Prop G is good for taxpayers and the construction industry. Big Labor opposes Prop G because it curtails their ability to receive costly and anti-competitive handouts from public [...]

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Local Ballot Initiatives in California Will Protect Fair and Open Competition for Taxpayers: Voters Decide on June 8

May 24, 2010 – 12:19 pm

The San Diego Union-Tribune, the highest circulated daily newspaper in the San Diego metropolitan area, has endorsed Measure K, which asks Oceanside voters to adopt a charter that includes a ban on project labor agreement (PLA) requirements in city contracts. It also allows the city to establish its own prevailing wage policy for purely municipal [...]

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Another Editorial Opposed to Federal Project Labor Agreements

May 21, 2010 – 9:30 am

Yet another editorial board – the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - has come out in opposition to President Obama’s scheme to funnel federal construction contracts to Big Labor through project labor agreements (PLAs) via Executive Order 13502 (“The Union Label: Paying Off Big Labor,” 5/21/10): Rewarding Big Labor for political support, the Obama administration is virtually shutting nonunion contractors out of [...]

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Project Labor Agreements Don’t Guarantee a Local Workforce

May 21, 2010 – 8:38 am

When Big Labor claims project labor agreements (PLAs) guarantee a local workforce, challenge that assertion.  Inquire and request documentation explaining the local union hall’s policy on “travelers” or “boomers” and ask elected officials in charge of construction projects to have local union halls submit their policy in writing.  Typically, union collective bargaining agreements and PLAs give out-of-area travelers/boomers [...]

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Filling the Airwaves With the Truth About PLAs

May 19, 2010 – 8:54 pm

The radio airwaves and blogosphere are filled with concerned individuals exposing the truth about Big Labor’s scheme to monopolize federal construction work at the expense of hardworking taxpayers. Dick Lombardo, President and CEO of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) member Harkins Builders, discusses President Obama’s executive order encouraging the use of project labor agreements (PLAs) on [...]

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Understanding the Politics of PLAs

May 19, 2010 – 8:34 am

TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has repeatedly documented that anti-competitive and costly project labor agreement (PLA) schemes are payoffs to Big Labor bosses from politicians in public offices at all levels of government. Big Labor relies on union-friendly public officials to steer public works contracts to unionized contractors through government-mandated PLAs. (Click here and here for great examples). Politicians [...]

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