ABC Metro Washington | The Truth About PLAs - Part 2

New Report Says Anti-Competitive PLAs Won’t Help District of Columbia Economy

March 31, 2010 – 3:09 pm

A new report on government-mandated PLAs, “The Problem with PLAs in the District of Columbia,” was released today. Focusing specifically on the D.C. construction market, ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu’s report examines the existing data indicating whether government-mandated PLAs make sense in the District of Columbia. Here is a key finding from the report: “In [...]

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District of Columbia Big Labor Bosses Busted for Pay-to-Play Politics

March 30, 2010 – 9:01 am

A TruthAboutPLAs.com reader has sent us evidence we are sharing with the public that demonstrates that the AFL-CIO Metropolitan Washington Council is engaged in shameless pay-to-play politics with Prince George’s County officials, which is the county East of Washington. D.C. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has covered how a lobbyist for the AFL-CIO Metropolitan Washington Council perpetuated misleading/intentionally false statements in support of District Resident [...]

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Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO President Argues McDonalds Employees Only Earn $50 an Hour

March 5, 2010 – 5:06 am

A quote in a recent Washington Business Journal article indicates that Joslyn Williams, president of the AFL-CIO Metropolitan Washington Council, believes McDonald’s employees earn $50 an hour (“Bill heats up battle over required use of union labor,” 2/28/10). “The city has to decide whether it wants people working on its construction projects to earn only ‘McDonald’s wages,’” said Joslyn Williams, [...]

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