According to a new study released by the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR), California school construction projects built using project labor agreements (PLAs) experienced increased costs of 13 percent to 15 percent, or $28.90 to $32.49 per square foot, compared to projects that did not use a PLA. Measuring the Cost of [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC-CCC, California, Direct Mail, National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR), Op-Ed, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Sacramento, Sacramento Bee, School Construction
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November 2, 2010 – 12:56 pm
In defense of President Obama’s controversial pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502, Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of the Middle Class Taskforce, made this misleading claim about PLAs in a White House blog post on 4/12/10 (read more on Bernstein here): PLAs also help ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing workplace [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC California, ABC-CCC, California, Do Project Labor Agreements Ensure Compliance with Labor Laws?, Evidence That Project Labor Agreements Don't Guarantee a Safer Workplace, Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Jared Bernstein, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Business Journal, PLA Basics, PLA Myth, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, White House Middle Class Task Force
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January 14, 2010 – 10:26 am
Merit shop contractors in California continue to go on the offense whenever possible with state and local policy initiatives that prohibit project labor agreements and guarantee or restore fair and open bid competition. We were pleased on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 to see a committee of the California Assembly consider thoughtful state legislation that repeals [...]
January 13, 2010 – 12:33 pm
Joe Fleischman of the FlashReport Weblog on California Politics obliterates project labor agreement (PLA) proponents’ frail arguments in light of a recent report that Milpitas City Library contractors violated labor laws despite the fact that this project was covered by a PLA (“More Fodder For Opponents Of Project Labor Agreements Courtesy Of Milpitas,” 1/12). Mr. Fleishman on [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC California, ABC-CCC, California, Long Beach, Milpitas, Milpitas Library, PLA Failures, PLA hypocrisy, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, Project Labor Agreements
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January 12, 2010 – 10:52 am
Big Labor and their allies often claim that wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) guarantee that workers will be paid fair wages and ensure that contractors on covered projects follow the highest labor standards. Nevertheless, the Taxpayers Accountability Project of Associated Builders and Contractors, California Cooperation Committee (ABC-CCC) found at least 56 violations of [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC California, ABC-CCC, California, Milpitas, Milpitas Library, PLA Failures, PLA hypocrisy, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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