With Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland’s appointed director of the Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC), former Big Labor boss Richard Murray, under investigation for pushing school districts to use union-favoring project labor agreements (PLAs) as a condition of receiving funding from the OSFC, the media stands ready scrutinize these corrupt and wasteful agreements. A recent Columbus Dispatch points to evidence that PLAs in Ohio [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Columbus Dispatch, Cornell, David G. Tuerck, Fred Kotler, Ohio, Ohio School Facilities Commission, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Sidney Daily News, Study
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The D.C. Council’s Committee on Housing and Workforce Development and Government Operations is holding a hearing at 10:00 AM tomorrow morning in Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building on the District Resident Employment and Trade Stimulus Amendment Act of 2010 (Bill 18-650). This legislation would require contractors building District construction projects costing more than [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC Metro Washington, AFL-CIO Metropolitan Washington Council, D.C. Council, Executive Order 13502, local legislation, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, State Legislation, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Washington DC
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Last week, a pair of editorials in Massachusetts newspapers questioned whether Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick learned anything from Boston’s experience with the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the Big Dig after he endorsed a new PLA mandated by the UMass’s Building Authority board of directors on future university construction projects (The Salem News, “Our view: Has Big Dig taught [...]
The Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby blasts Mass. Gov. Patrick’s support of anti-competitive and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on Umass-Boston construction projects (“Labor agreements make no sense,” 6/27). THIS IS the kind of thing, Charlie Baker was saying one day last week, that “makes people crazy about state government.’’ The Republican gubernatorial candidate was [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Big Dig, Boston Globe, Charles Baker, Gov. Patrick, Massachusetts, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, UMASS
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By unanimous decision, the board overseeing the construction of the new $340 million University of Nebraska Haymarket Arena rejected Big Labor’s call for a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the arena’s construction. This is a significant win for local taxpayers and the 87 percent of the Nebraska construction workforce that chooses not to join [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) cancelled its solicitation Nov. 2009 for bids to construct a new Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H. The solicitation contained a crony contracting scheme called a project labor agreement (PLA) that would funnel construction contracts to unionized contractors. It was the first time a federal agency attempted a government-mandated PLA on a federal construction project since [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged DOL, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Gov. Lynch, John Stephen, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements
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Iowa Governor Chet Culver’s effort to encourage public bodies to require wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) is paying dividends for his Big Labor allies. The Iowa University Board of Regents voted 5-4, along party lines, in favor of requiring a PLA on the construction of the $73 million outpatient clinic for the University [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore wrote in yesterday’s Political Diary, via FlashReport (“Unions on the Run in the Golden State,” 6/22): It’s rare these days for unions to suffer a political setback, but the California election results in early June were a big defeat. Now a business group that played a key role in the [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC California, Ballot Initiative, Brett McMahon, California, Chula Vista, Oceanside, PLAs, Prop G, Prop K, Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal
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In an op-ed published in the June 19 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette titled, “State’s Union-Friendly Deals Unfair, too Costly,” Stephen R. Campbell and Vicki Craft Kearns present a well-written overview of the project labor agreement (PLA) issue in Pennsylvania and nationwide. The op-ed also does an excellent job laying out how Big Labor’s support [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Department of General Services, Federal Legislation, Keystone Research Center, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, Prisons, Rendell, State Legislation, The Politics of PLAs
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