February 27, 2011 – 4:55 pm
This week, Ohio leaders stood up and said NO to taxpayer funded handouts to Big Labor. The Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) voted Thursday to approve a policy that prohibits the use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on school construction projects financed by the OSFC. This reverses a policy adopted by former Gov. Ted [...]
February 17, 2011 – 10:43 pm
On Wednesday, Feb. 16, Congressman John Sullivan (R-Okla.) introduced the Government Neutrality in Contracting Act (H.R. 735) (pdf). The legislation will protect taxpayers and ensure fair and open competition on government construction contracts by prohibiting the government from mandating anti-competitive and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal and federally assisted construction projects. The Government Neutrality in [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Sullivan, The Government Neutrality in Contracting Act, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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February 16, 2011 – 11:06 am
According to the New Hampshire Union Leader, yesterday U.S. Representative Frank Guinta (R-N.H.) filed an amendment pertaining to government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on the Continuing Resolution legislation currently being debated on the House floor that would fund the federal government from March 4 through Sept. 30, the end of the current federal fiscal year (“Guinta: [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Federal Legislation, House PLA Votes, Manchester, Mayor Guinta, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Union Leader, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Glenn Thompson, Rep. Guinta, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, The Politics of PLAs
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February 15, 2011 – 3:24 pm
An editorial in the February 14, 2011 Barstow Desert-Dispatch (“Greenmail” a Threat to Energy Projects) is blunt about the union “greenmail” scheme to exploit the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and block permits for the construction of solar and other renewable power plants in the Mojave Desert: …we now have another reason to be concerned [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC California, California, California Environmental Quality Act, Green Jobs, Greenmail, IBEW, Kevin Dayton, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Radio Interview, Wal-Mart
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February 15, 2011 – 9:27 am
The march against wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) has moved to the Ohio General Assembly, where Rep. Ron Young has introduced the latest measure to prohibit the use of these Big Labor handouts on taxpayer funded work. Here is the text from Rep. Young’s press release, issued February 11: YOUNG SPONSORS LEGISLATION TO [...]
February 11, 2011 – 4:46 pm
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s recent executive order to prohibit the use of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on construction projects funded by taxpayer dollars is facing its first real test. The Cedar Rapids City Council voted 5-4 on Tuesday, Feb. 8 to move forward with a PLA requirement for the construction of the city’s [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged 2010 Election, ABC Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Executive Order 13502, Gov. Terry Branstad, Iowa, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, State Executive Order, The Politics of PLAs
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February 10, 2011 – 5:45 pm
With the full Indiana Senate in a position to consider S.B. 333, which would prohibit the use of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on state projects, rhetoric on all sides has started to heat up. Eric Schansberg from the Indiana Policy Institute shared some fantastic insight into the real impact of PLAs with readers [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Indiana, Indianapolis, Op-Ed, PLA Basics, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, State Legislation, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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February 10, 2011 – 12:16 am
Today merit shop contractors and their skilled employees building federal construction projects submitted a number of questions to TheTruthAboutPLAs.com about the Obama Administration’s $53 billion high-speed rail plan unveiled yesterday. Massive infrastructure spending means more jobs for the construction industry, which is suffering from a staggering 22.5 percent unemployment rate. However, quality merit shop contractors and their skilled employees should [...]
February 9, 2011 – 5:29 am
At its February 8, 2011 meeting, the San Bernardino County (California) Board of Supervisors voted 3-0 to reject a scheme by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 477 to block a permit to build a 40-megawatt solar photovoltaic generating facility in the Mojave Desert, near Kramer Junction. The San Bernardino County Planning Commission [...]
By Kevin Dayton
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Tagged ABC California, California, California Environmental Quality Act, Green Jobs, Greenmail, IBEW, Kevin Dayton, LA Times, Los Angeles, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Solar Power, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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February 8, 2011 – 2:28 pm
The New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has issued a survey soliciting comments from the construction community addressing the potential use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) for three large scale construction contracts totaling about $200 million at West Point in Orange County, NY. All ABC members, employees and construction industry [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, New York, NY, Orange County, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, US Army Corps of Engineers, West Point
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