Union Boss Calls for Reform: Says Union Labor is Costly and Unproductive

June 12, 2010 – 12:15 am

Comments from a St. Louis area union boss in an article in the Illinois Business Journal supports the premise that anti-competitive project labor agreements (PLAs) saddle construction owners and contractors with poor productivity and archaic union work rules that needlessly inflate the cost of construction (“Lack of productivity puts St. Louis in backseat for economic development“).  Note: [...]

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Understanding the Merit Shop Contractor Cost Advantage

May 17, 2010 – 9:56 am

One of the biggest complaints against government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) is that these anti-competitive schemes saddle nonunion and merit shop contractors with inefficient union work rules and high operational costs unique to unionized contractors.  Studies have found that these costly inefficiencies, coupled with reduced competition from quality nonunion contractors, increase the construction costs of PLA projects [...]

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