August 17, 2011 – 10:40 am
On August 15, State of Nevada District Court Judge Jerry Wiese ruled that a project labor agreement (PLA) imposed on contractors by the elected Clark County Board of Commissioners for a $17 million prison project in Las Vegas violated the state’s competitive bidding laws. The Nevada Supreme Court has asked Judge Wiese to evaluate the [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Clark County, Kevin Dayton, Las Vegas, Lawsuit, Nevada, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements
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August 19, 2009 – 11:00 am
Remember when Vegas construction unions were willing to gamble with union pension funds to secure union-only PLAs on public projects? That effort failed so now they are turning to their political friends to secure union-only contracts. The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that Clark County Commissioners are reviewing a policy that would require discriminatory and costly project labor agreements [...]
A www.TheTruthAboutPLAs.com reader sent me a Las Vegas Sun follow-up story about the Laborers Local Union #872′s plans to gamble with nearly $80 million of union pension money to fund the construction of a new Las Vegas city hall (to be built with a union-only PLA, of course). We questioned this unwise use of union pension [...]
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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While the federal government is tripping over itself to give handouts to Big Labor by encouraging government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects exceeding $25 million, several states have enacted legislation or issued executive orders rejecting wasteful and anti-competitive PLAs. Since 1995, five states now prohibit government-mandated PLAs on public construction projects. Leaders in [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Arkansas, Illinous, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Section 7, State Executive Order, State Legislation, Utah
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