The Baltimore City Council held a hearing Thursday, July 29 to examine local legislation (Bill 10-0455) that would require community partnership agreements – also known as wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) – on all construction projects costing more than $5 million and that have some form of city financial support. Here is an [...]
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research published an article yesterday about the problems with President Obama’s gifts to Big Labor Bosses such as his pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 and his recess appointment of Craig Becker, the former associate general counsel for the Service Employees International Union, to the National Labor [...]
“For the reasons listed above, the Law Department does not approve the bill for form and legal sufficiency.” That is the legal opinion of Ashley H. Brown, Baltimore’s Assistant Attorney Solicitor, on controversial legislation (Bill No. 10-0455) before the Baltimore City Council that would require the city to include government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in all contracts for construction projects with a total [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC Baltimore, ABC Metro Washington, AFL-CIO Metropolitan Washington Council, Baltimore, D.C. Council, legal opinion, local hire, local legislation, Ordinance, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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FOX News’ Special Report with Bret Baier is the latest to cover the grassroots effort to bring quality and accountability to taxpayer-funded construction by preventing the use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in California. Here is the video from the July 21 edition of Special Report: The FOX News Liveshots blog also covered this [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged 20 in 2010, 2010 Election, ABC California, California, Chula Vista, Fox News, Gaylord Hotel, Greenmail, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, Prop G, San Diego, TV Coverage, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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Yesterday, TheTruthAboutPLAs.com’s Ben Brubeck was a guest on IRN/USA News Radio’s News & Views with Chuck and Larry Bates program. Brubeck was invited onto the program to discuss how the free market is being distorted by anti-competitive and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) and President Obama’s pro-PLA Executive Order 13502, which encourages federal agencies to [...]
Jeremy Price, owner of ABC Iowa member Price Industrial Electric, appeared on the Laura Ingraham radio show July 16 to discuss President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502, which encourages federal agencies to steer lucrative federal construction contracts exceeding $25 million to unionized contractors and union members. March 15, 2010, Iowa Gov. Chet [...]
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Tagged Culver, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Iowa, Laura Ingraham, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Radio Interview
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The McKeesport Area School District Board of Directors has decided to say NO to a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) mandate on the construction of an upcoming $62 million consolidated project. This is a huge win for taxpayers and the vast majority of western Pennsylvania construction workers that choose not to join a [...]
There was a small blurb from the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s (Gubernatorial Rivals Court Carpenters Union, 7/18) coverage of the Democrat gubernatorial candidates’ audition for the Hawaii Carpenters Union endorsement that is worth covering. Current Hawaii Representative and gubernatorial candidate Neil Abercrombie (HI-1) gave a quote that is telling about the true nature of wasteful and discriminatory project [...]
Government officials often argue that the increased costs and discriminatory and anti-competitive nature of union-favoring government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) are “bitter pills worth swallowing” for Big Labor’s promise not to strike, picket and engage in other forms of labor unrest on jobsites that could impact the on-time, on-budget delivery of a construction project. That flawed logic makes [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Blagojevich, Chicago and Cook County Building and Construction Trades Council, General Laborers' District Council of Chicago, Gov. Quinn, Illinois, Illinois Tollway, Laborers' District Council of Chicago, Laborers' International Union Local 6, Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineer, PLAs, Project Labor Agreements, Strikes
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Iowa gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad has spoke out this week against against Gov. Chet Culver’s Executive Order 22 and his efforts to encourage state agencies to consider and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on state projects. The Cedar Rapids Gazette asked the former governor about the PLA issue on the campaign trail. [...]
