The Most Infamous PLA Job: Lessons from Boston’s Big Dig

June 29, 2010 – 4:17 am

Last week, a pair of editorials in Massachusetts newspapers questioned whether Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick learned anything from Boston’s experience with the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the Big Dig after he endorsed a new PLA mandated by the UMass’s Building Authority board of directors on future university construction projects (The Salem News, “Our view: Has Big Dig taught [...]

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New Jersey Project Labor Agreement Debate Grows

December 8, 2009 – 9:26 am

The debate over government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in New Jersey is in the news again.  New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press ran a scathing editorial opposed to PLAs (Costly PLAs Must Be Ended, 11/16) that TheTruthAboutPLAs covered here. The paper published an Op-Ed defending PLAs by Phillip E. Cooney, vice president of the New Jersey Carpenter Contractor [...]

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Union Corporate Campaign for Biotech Project Labor Agreement in Massachusetts

May 5, 2009 – 10:04 am

On 5/1 I wrote about how Virginia Building Trades Unions were running a corporate campaign against Dominion Virginia Power for more union jobs and (likely) a PLA. The Massachusetts Building Trades have taken a corporate campaign against companies in Massachusetts’ Biotech industry to a whole new level with this absurd StopBiotechLooting.org website, media campaign and [...]

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