Editorial: Why Not Bid Lorain Wasterwater Project With and Without a Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreement?

March 28, 2011 – 8:20 am

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 [...]

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USACE Issues Project Labor Agreement Survey for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Hospital

March 8, 2011 – 11:59 am

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 [...]

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Open Competition Legislation on the Move!

March 2, 2011 – 10:23 am

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 [...]

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Ohio Leaders Refuse to Build Four Schools for the Price of Five

February 27, 2011 – 4:55 pm

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 [...]

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Hey Ohio, Open Competition Could be on the Way!

February 15, 2011 – 9:27 am

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 [...]

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Solving Euclid’s Project Labor Agreement Problem

January 18, 2011 – 11:31 am

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 [...]

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Editorial: City Council Should be in No Hurry to Enact Dubious Labor Measure

December 9, 2010 – 9:15 pm

Big Labor’s effort to impose a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) mandate in Lorain, OH hit a roadblock this week when the City Council’s Streets and Sidewalks Committee refused to send the proposal to the full council on Monday, Dec. 6. This was a big win for local taxpayers, but it might only [...]

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More Evidence That Project Labor Agreements Reduce Competition and Increase Costs

November 16, 2010 – 11:02 am

Big Labor Bosses and their hand-picked political puppets claim that anti-competitive and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) are in the public’s best interest.  In reality, PLAs are crony contracting schemes implemented by corrupt elected officials that funnel lucrative public works contracts to union contractors and their union employees in exchange for political support. Numerous [...]

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PLA Requirement Withdrawn from Ohio School Construction Projects

October 3, 2010 – 11:06 am

In a win for the taxpayers of Ohio, the Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) has officially decided not to require contractors to enter into a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) in order to work on the construction of two new dormitories for the Ohio Schools for the Blind and Deaf. While this development is not wholly unexpected, [...]

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Public Awareness Brings Down Ohio PLA

September 21, 2010 – 10:56 am

There is an old adage that the best weapon against wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) is sunshine.  This has once again proven true, this time in Ohio. Officials from the Ohio Schools For the Blind and For the Deaf have agreed to drop a PLA requirement that had been imposed on the upcoming [...]

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