USACE PLA Survey For Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Museum Hangar Due April 29
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District has issued a survey requesting feedback from the construction industry about a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a large-scale construction project building a new exhibition hangar for an aviation museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. To review and respond to the survey, click [...]
Great Scott: Projects Bid With and Without PLA Mandates Show PLAs Increase Costs and Reduce Competition
While researching the use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in West Virginia in advance of Wednesday’s deadline for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) survey about a potential PLA mandate on a large-scale federal project in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., TheTruthAboutPLAs.com went back in time to revisit another real-world example of how discriminatory PLA [...]
Buckeye Taxpayer Victory: Lorain City Council Repeals PLA Mandate
Here is an update to a story we followed in 2011. Ohio’s Lorain City Council voted March 7 to repeal a project labor agreement (PLA) mandate for all city construction projects. It was replaced by a measure requiring contractors to comply with a workforce participation plan that includes a local hire mandate of 25 percent. City leaders [...]
USACE PLA Survey For Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Heating System Project Due March 15
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District has issued a survey requesting feedback from the construction industry about a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a large-scale construction project improving a heating system at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. To review and respond to the survey, click here. All responses must be submitted [...]
Editorial: Why Not Bid Lorain Wasterwater Project With and Without a Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreement?
Ohio newspaper editorial boards have been keeping tabs on the Lorain (Ohio) City Council, opposing the council’s frequent efforts to implement the anti-competitive, costly and special interest agenda of Big Labor by requiring union-favoring government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on municipal construction projects. The Lorain Morning Journal’s latest editorial opposing these PLA schemes makes the argument that the Lorain [...]
USACE Issues Project Labor Agreement Survey for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Hospital
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Lousiville District issued a survey March 4 requesting information from the construction industry on the potential use of a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) for the $100 million design, construction and renovation of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center in the Dayton (Fairborn), OH area. All ABC members [...]
Open Competition Legislation on the Move!
There have been some big developments for proponents of fair and open competition around the country. It is clear that taxpayers from sea to shining sea are sick of their hard earned tax dollars funding special interest handouts in the form of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs). Last week, lawmakers in Idaho cleared [...]
Ohio Leaders Refuse to Build Four Schools for the Price of Five
This week, Ohio leaders stood up and said NO to taxpayer funded handouts to Big Labor. The Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) voted Thursday to approve a policy that prohibits the use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on school construction projects financed by the OSFC. This reverses a policy adopted by former Gov. Ted Strickland’s [...]
Hey Ohio, Open Competition Could be on the Way!
The march against wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) has moved to the Ohio General Assembly, where Rep. Ron Young has introduced the latest measure to prohibit the use of these Big Labor handouts on taxpayer funded work. Here is the text from Rep. Young’s press release, issued February 11: YOUNG SPONSORS LEGISLATION TO [...]
Solving Euclid’s Project Labor Agreement Problem
Corruption, Big Labor’s powerful special interest lobby, a change in Ohio’s political leadership, and poorly researched and half-baked public policy are all variables in a complicated equation the people of Euclid, Ohio, are desperate to solve. In November 2009, Euclid City School District voters barely passed Issue #105 – a $40.3 million bond measure (see election results [...]