January 8, 2012 – 4:12 pm
Stephen Lefebvre, president of the Empire State Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) had some thoughts on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s state of the state address last week. The ABC Empire State Chapter issued the press release below on January 5, where he wished Gov. Cuomo the best in 2012 and asked him [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC Empire State, New York, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Press Release, Project Labor Agreements, State Legislation, The Politics of PLAs
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August 24, 2011 – 2:51 pm
The debate surrounding government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) is often framed by the media and elected officials as a dispute pitting union signatory contractors and their union employees against nonunion contractors and their nonunion employees. However, a recent lawsuit attacking government-mandated PLAs on $6 billion worth of taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects through 2014 in New York [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC Empire State, AGC, Bayonne, Building Industry Electrical Contractors Association (BIECA), Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements Harm Union Contractors and Tradespeople, Hill International, International Steelworkers Union, Keystone Research Center, Legal Challenge, New Jersey, New York, New York Building and Construction Trades Council, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Union Contractors Opposed to PLAs, United Electrical Contractors Association (UECA)
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Construction unions market project labor agreements (PLAs) to public and private construction owners as a tool to guarantee labor peace on construction projects. But recent examples of strikes on PLA projects in NYC and other areas across the U.S. call into question the value of these anti-competitive schemes designed steer contracts to union contractors and union members. MYTH: [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Boston Herald, Cement and Concrete Workers of New York, Crain's New York Business, featured, Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition), Indiana, Ironworkers, Joseph Hunt, Labor Unrest, Laborers International Union of North America, Laborers Union, Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineer, Los Angeles, Maury Baskin, New York, New York Building and Construction Trades Council, PLA Basics, PLA Myth, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, Project Labor Agreements, Regional Plan Association, Strikes, Wall Street Journal
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There is a great example of Big Labor handouts at their worst developing in New York State this spring. Here are the facts from the Empire State Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors: “Lancaster Development, Inc., a Schoharie County-based heavy/highway construction firm, and the Empire State Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors are calling on [...]
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) recently issued three surveys requesting information from the construction industry on potential project labor agreement (PLA) mandates for USACE construction projects in Louisiana, Nebraska and Hawaii. A May 4 survey issued by USACE asks for feedback on a PLA mandate for the VOLAR Barracks renovation in Fort Polk, Louisiana. [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Fort Drum, Fort Hood, Fort Polk, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, Honolulu, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, PLA survey, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Take Action, Texas, US Army Corps of Engineers
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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) issued an April 28 survey (pdf) requesting information from the construction industry about the potential use of a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a $25 million to $50 million Operational Readiness Training Complex (ORTC) project at Fort Drum in Jefferson County, New York. All members of Associated Builders [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Fort Drum, Jefferson County, New York, PLA survey, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Take Action, US Army Corps of Engineers
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February 8, 2011 – 2:28 pm
The New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has issued a survey soliciting comments from the construction community addressing the potential use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) for three large scale construction contracts totaling about $200 million at West Point in Orange County, NY. All ABC members, employees and construction industry [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, New York, NY, Orange County, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, US Army Corps of Engineers, West Point
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February 4, 2011 – 5:16 pm
In an outstanding op-ed, Marci Miller of the Empire State Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors tells the truth about wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs): they are nothing more than special interest handouts that deprive taxpayers of the accountability they deserve on public contracts. Here is an excerpt from the Rochester Business Journal [...]
August 28, 2010 – 7:17 pm
In a guest op-ed published by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (“Labor Agreements Raise Construction Costs,” 8/28/10), Marci Miller of the Empire State Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors has some thoughts on the impact of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on local construction projects. Here are the highlights: Despite some claims to [...]
August 5, 2010 – 10:42 am
Big Labor bosses and government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) advocates frequently claim that PLAs are the only way to guarantee local hire on construction projects funded by tax dollars. Of course, this is another myth promoted by special interests to convince lawmakers and taxpayers that there is a public benefit to anti-competitive and costly PLA [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC California, ABC Iowa, ABC Michigan, Baltimore, California, checkerboarding, Des Moines, Detroit, Detroit Free Press, featured, Iowa, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review Journal, local hire, Michigan, Nationals Park PLA, New York, NY Daily News, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Inquirer, PLAs, San Diego Union Tribune, San Francisco, San Francisco Examiner, The Politics of PLAs, Travelers/Boomers, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Washington DC, Yankee Stadium
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