August 10, 2011 – 10:41 am
Michelle Malkin has a new piece exposing disgraced Obama administration green jobs czar Van Jones’ latest attempt to advocate for policies that tilt the scales for construction workers with union cards when competing for federal construction. Here are the highlights with our emphasis added: The problem, posits [Van] Jones, is that his fellow community organizer [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged BCTD, Executive Order 13502, Green For All, Green Jobs, Michelle Malkin, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Van Jones
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February 10, 2011 – 12:16 am
Today merit shop contractors and their skilled employees building federal construction projects submitted a number of questions to TheTruthAboutPLAs.com about the Obama Administration’s $53 billion high-speed rail plan unveiled yesterday. Massive infrastructure spending means more jobs for the construction industry, which is suffering from a staggering 22.5 percent unemployment rate. However, quality merit shop contractors and their skilled employees should [...]
December 22, 2010 – 3:17 pm
ICYMI, check out political pundit Michelle Malkin’s blog. It links to a piece on www.TheTruthAboutPLAs.com and warns the public about more special interest gifts to Big Labor via anti-competitive and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) (“Watch Out: More Obama union pay-offs in the works,” 12/20): On Friday, President Obama mollified Big Labor bosses at the White [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Blogosphere, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Lafayette Building, Michelle Malkin, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, Washington DC
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September 8, 2010 – 2:04 pm
In a breakdown of President Obama’s new $50 billion infrastructure construction proposal, commentator Michelle Malkin tells her readers something that we’ve been saying for quite some time: that all workers are not created equal to President Obama. In February 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13502, which encourages agencies to require the use of wasteful [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Blogosphere, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Massachusetts, Michelle Malkin, Open Competition, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs
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