August 30, 2010 – 5:25 pm
There are new developments in the controversy over Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) Executive Director Richard Murray’s effort to drive lucrative school construction contracts to Big Labor. As readers of TheTruthAboutPLAs.com are aware, the Ohio Inspector General’s (IG) office released a scathing report on August 5 that brought OSFC E.D. and former Laborers official Richard Murray’s efforts [...]
August 28, 2010 – 7:17 pm
In a guest op-ed published by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (“Labor Agreements Raise Construction Costs,” 8/28/10), Marci Miller of the Empire State Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors has some thoughts on the impact of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on local construction projects. Here are the highlights: Despite some claims to [...]
August 26, 2010 – 8:54 am
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and its members have stopped another government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a proposed federal construction project. This is yet another blow to the Obama administration’s effort to implement Executive Order 13502, which encourages the use of PLAs on federal construction costing more than $25 million. In this most recent [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GAO, New Jersey, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, US Army Corps of Engineers
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August 25, 2010 – 8:01 am
A third county in California has now prohibited project labor agreements (PLAs) on taxpayer-funded construction projects. On a 3-2 vote on August 24, the Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution adding a provision to its contracting policies that states “the County shall not require a contractor on a County public project to execute [...]
By Kevin Dayton
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Tagged 20 in 2010, ABC California, California, County, Greenmail, Kevin Dayton, local legislation, Orange County, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, San Diego, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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August 24, 2010 – 3:19 pm
You still have the chance to tell Congress to say NO to wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on the House Republican Whip Eric Cantor’s “YouCut.” Oklahoma Congresswoman and gubernatorial candidate Mary Fallin’s (OK-5) YouCut proposal to prohibit the federal government from requiring anti-competitive and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Federal Legislation, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Rep. Cantor, Rep. Mary Fallin, Take Action, The Government Neutrality in Contracting Act, YouCut
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August 19, 2010 – 2:13 pm
Today The Columbus Dispatch published another editorial blasting Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) director Richard Murray for engaging in numerous acts of “union bias” and steering lucrative school construction contracts to union contractors and union members via project labor agreements (PLAs). Murray has been the subject of an investigation by the Ohio Inspector General’s office TheTruthAboutPLAs.com covered here and here. [...]
August 18, 2010 – 2:20 pm
ABC members, employees and concerned taxpayers helped defeat a costly and discriminatory provision within the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) solicitation for construction services that mandated a project labor agreement (PLA) on a $100 million to $250 million technical applications center at Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Fla. Below is a news release (pdf) [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Florida, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, US Army Corps of Engineers
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August 16, 2010 – 3:50 pm
Allegheny County Executive and gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato (D) criticized the Community College of Allegheny County’s (CCAC) requirement that all bidders for the upcoming construction of a $21 million science building agree to sign a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) with Big Labor as a condition of performing work on this project. Here’s an [...]
August 12, 2010 – 1:50 pm
There has been a flurry of activity surrounding the fight for fair and open competition in the Pittsburgh area over the last 72 hours. The Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) was scheduled to receive bids for the $21 million construction of a new 65,000 sq. ft. science center on August 10. Unfortunately, buried within [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC Western Pennsylvania, Editorial, Open Competition, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PLAs, Rep. John Bear, School Construction, State Legislation, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, University Construction
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August 11, 2010 – 9:35 am
Yesterday, The Boston Globe reported that a group of nonunion contractors filed a complaint with the State Ethics Commission alleging that a project labor agreement (PLA) favoring union labor on $750 million worth of construction at the UMass Boston campus violated the state’s conflict of interest law when it was approved by a board that includes two [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Charles Baker, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Gov. Patrick, Gov. Strickland, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Ohio, Ohio School Facilities Commission, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, UMASS, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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