Today nonunion contractors and their skilled employees that build federal construction projects are preparing for more job losses as a result of a federal government rule promoting special interest schemes that funnel lucrative federal construction contracts to unionized contractors. It is more bad news for the construction industry which is already suffering from 22 percent unemployment. But it [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wall Street Journal
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Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial blasts President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 that was implemented into federal procurement regulations thanks to the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council’s final rule issued yesterday (“Crony Contracts. Want federal business? Better be a union shop.” 4/14). This editorial is one for the ages. Let’s hope federal agencies and [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Maury Baskin, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Veterans Administration, Wall Street Journal
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December 15, 2009 – 5:14 am
From 2001 until Feb. 6, 2009 Executive Order 13202 protected at least $147.1 billion worth of federal construction projects from discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs). In addition, the order prohibited PLAs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of federally-assisted construction projects across the country. Federally-assisted projects are local, state or private construction [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, OMB, OMB Memo, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Section 7, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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November 2, 2009 – 5:51 am
A TruthAboutPLAs.com reader sent us a June 2009 study conducted by property and construction consulting firm Rider Levett Bucknall prepared for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Construction and Facilities Management. The VA hired this firm to evaluate the cost impact of project labor agreements (PLAs) in various markets where the VA [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Denver, Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Hospital Construction, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, San Francisco, Veterans Administration
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September 15, 2009 – 2:06 pm
Today the FOX News Channel’s Fox & Friends program sat down with Brett McMahon, VP of ABC member Miller & Long Concrete Construction, to discuss discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) and President Obama’s Executive Order 13502.
A government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) is an anti-competitive and costly scheme designed by Big Labor and sympathetic public officials to funnel construction contracts to unionized contractors and union members while cutting competition from qualified merit shop contractors and their skilled merit shop employees. A PLA is a multi-employer, multi-union, pre-hire agreement that PLA proponents market [...]
