There have been some big developments for proponents of fair and open competition around the country. It is clear that taxpayers from sea to shining sea are sick of their hard earned tax dollars funding special interest handouts in the form of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs). Last week, lawmakers in Idaho cleared [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC Michigan, Executive Order 13502, Florida, Georgia, Gov. Terry Branstad, Greenmail, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, PLA Ban, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, State Executive Order, State Legislation
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November 22, 2010 – 9:53 am
It is no secret that U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Hilda Solis supports anti-competitive and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects. On Nov. 9, 2010, Solis made these remarks in support of PLAs and President Obama’s pro-PLA Executive Order 13502 to the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged DOL, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Florida, Hollywood Florida, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Section 7, Westin Diplomat Hotel
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September 30, 2010 – 10:18 am
Another costly and discriminatory government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) has been removed from a federal construction project thanks to grassroots participation from the construction community, concerned taxpayers, ABC members and their employees. The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) removed a PLA from the bid solicitation for the construction of a $25 million to $100 million Army [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC California, California, Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Florida, Grassroots, New Jersey, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Take Action, US Army Corps of Engineers
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August 18, 2010 – 2:20 pm
ABC members, employees and concerned taxpayers helped defeat a costly and discriminatory provision within the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) solicitation for construction services that mandated a project labor agreement (PLA) on a $100 million to $250 million technical applications center at Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Fla. Below is a news release (pdf) [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Florida, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, US Army Corps of Engineers
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November 5, 2009 – 4:19 pm
In an op-ed titled, “Favoring Unions Hurts Taxpayers,” in the November 5 edition of the Tampa Bay Tribune, ABC Gulf Coast Chapter President Steve Cona, Jr. notes that President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 could keep 97 percent of Florida’s private construction workforce from building projects paid for with their own tax dollars. Executive Order 13502 [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged abc, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Florida, Manchester, New Hampshire, Op-Ed, PLAs Cut Competition, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Tampa Tribune
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A Las Vegas Sun article demonstrates how the Laborers Union Local #872 is willing to gamble with their union’s pension fund in order to secure a union-only project labor agreement (PLA) on a new Las Vegas city hall (“Old Vegas-style financing offered for city hall,” 7/17). A spokesman for Laborers Local 872 said the union hopes to [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Diplomat Hotel, Florida, Laborers Union, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Local #872, Mob, Nevada, pensions, PLAs, Project Labor Agreements
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