GSA Admits Jumping the Gun with PLA Gift to Unions?

December 29, 2009 – 11:41 am

Washington Examiner Beltway Confidential columnist Barbara Hollingsworth covered the controversial project labor agreement (PLA) on a federal construction project in Washington, D.C. that has been in the news (GSA Admits Jumping the Gun with PLA Gift to Unions, 12/28). The General Services Administration admitted it made a mistake when it placed a non-competitive, cost-raising, union-pleasing Project Labor Agreement [...]

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Washington Times: Obama Union Push Stymies Contractors

December 27, 2009 – 12:44 pm

Yesterday we raised concerns about dual bidding experiments utilized by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) that will determine whether or not PLAs are appropriate on a pilot program of ten federal construction projects.  Today the Washington Times wrote about one of the GSA pilot projects in Washington, D.C. – the Lafayette Building on 811 Vermont Avenue - [...]

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Federal GSA Project in Portland Raises Project Labor Agreement Concerns

December 26, 2009 – 8:49 am

Oregon’s Daily Journal of Commerce story about the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland  mentions how the GSA is evaluating project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects funded by federal stimulus money (“Green Wyatt Goes to Howard S. Wright,” 12/18). The project, paid for with federal stimulus money, has attracted attention for [...]

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