January 26, 2010 – 10:14 am
The Washington Times ran an Op-Ed by Brett McMahon, vice-president of ABC member Miller & Long Concrete Construction, documenting a number of backroom deals that the White House and Congress cut with Big Labor that will harm private sector job creation and small businesses while giving Big Labor a big advantage (“Yet Another Reason to Oppose Obamacare: Union Giveaways That [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Brett McMahon, Employee Free Choice Act, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GSA, Health Care, Lafayette Building, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Washington DC, Washington Times
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January 4, 2010 – 11:39 am
Ohio’s Tribune Chronicle today published an editorial critical of project labor agreements (PLAs) and Executive Order 13502 (“Workers Should Be Angry About Union Preference,” 1/4). Add it to the long list of newspapers across the country opposed to discriminatory and costly government-mandated PLAs. Most construction workers are not members of labor unions. They should be [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged A.J. Celebrezze, Cleveland, dck North America, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GSA, Lafayette Building, Ohio, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Tribune Chronicle
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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 [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged DOL, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GAO, GSA, Lafayette Building, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, Project Labor Agreements, Washington Examiner
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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 - [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Brett McMahon, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GSA, Lafayette Building, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Washington DC, Washington Times
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