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Required Reading: April 12 Media on Obama’s Project Labor Agreement Final Rule

April 13, 2010 – 1:05 am

While you were out rebuilding America, here are yesterday’s media reports and notable statements on today’s final rule implementing President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 into federal procurement regulations. Wall Street Journal (“Unions Win Public Contracting Row,” 4/12) Statement from House Education and Labor Committee Senior Republican Member Rep. John Kline (R-MN) Workforce Fairness Institute [...]

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U.S. Labor Secretary’s Support of Anti-Competitive Project Labor Agreements Questioned at Congressional Hearing

February 5, 2010 – 2:45 pm

At a Feb. 2 House Education and Labor Committee hearing, U.S. Representative Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) questioned U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis on President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 for federal construction contracts and asked why the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) mandated a PLA on a Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H. After a [...]

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ABC Member Tells Congress The Truth About Project Labor Agreements

January 22, 2010 – 10:06 am

Associated Builders and Contractors’ (ABC) member Stephen Worth, president and CEO of Worth and Company, Inc., Pipersville, Pa., yesterday testified at a forum in the U.S. House of Representatives that was examining the preferential treatment Big Labor is receiving by the Obama administration and its allies on Capitol Hill. Worth’s testimony focused on Executive Order 13502 and [...]

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U.S. House Education and Labor Committee Senior Republican Member: Project Labor Agreements Offer Preview of Employee Free Choice Act

October 9, 2009 – 11:09 am

Rep. John Kline, senior Republican member of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, issued a press release warning Americans that the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire and Executive Order 13502 is the “evil twin” of the Employee Free Forced Choice [...]

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