January 19, 2012 – 10:43 am
Eric Christen from the Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction penned a new op-ed for the Los Angeles Business Journal in which he calls out Los Angeles area leaders for their love affair with project labor agreement (PLA) mandates. Here are the highlights: Project Labor Agreements Build Nothing but Unions OPED By ERIC CHRISTEN January [...]
September 9, 2011 – 11:59 am
California State Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez took a bill about tuberculosis screening (Senate Bill 922) on the afternoon of Friday, September 2 and turned it into a bill that nullifies current and future Project Labor Agreement bans at local governments and cuts off state funds for charter cities that [...]
By Kevin Dayton
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Tagged ABC California, Ballot Initiative, California, Chula Vista, Editorial, Kevin Dayton, Letter to the Editor, Oceanside, Op-Ed, PLA Video, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Sacramanto Bee, Sacramento, San Diego, San Diego Union Tribune, SB 922, School Construction, State Legislation, The Politics of PLAs, The Sacramento News & Review
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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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According to a new study released by the National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR), California school construction projects built using project labor agreements (PLAs) experienced increased costs of 13 percent to 15 percent, or $28.90 to $32.49 per square foot, compared to projects that did not use a PLA. Measuring the Cost of [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC-CCC, California, Direct Mail, National University System Institute for Policy Research (NUSIPR), Op-Ed, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Sacramanto Bee, Sacramento, School Construction
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While much of the national media attention has focused on Wisconsin, lawmakers in Indiana have also fled across state lines to keep the newly elected majority in the state House of Representatives from having the opportunity to conduct the people’s business. In Indiana, the Democrats initially left town over proposed Right-to-Work legislation, which would have [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Indiana, Indianapolis, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, Right to Work, School Construction, State Legislation, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wisconsin
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February 10, 2011 – 5:45 pm
With the full Indiana Senate in a position to consider S.B. 333, which would prohibit the use of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on state projects, rhetoric on all sides has started to heat up. Eric Schansberg from the Indiana Policy Institute shared some fantastic insight into the real impact of PLAs with readers [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Indiana, Indianapolis, Op-Ed, PLA Basics, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, State Legislation, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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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 [...]
January 19, 2011 – 8:45 am
The January 17 Los Angeles Business Journal includes an opinion piece (Laboring Under ‘Greenmail’) by thetruthaboutPLAs.com blogger Kevin Dayton of Associated Builders and Contractors of California explaining that Los Angeles-based construction unions are exploiting the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and other environmental laws to hold up permits until the private developers of proposed projects [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC California, California, California Environmental Quality Act, Greenmail, Kevin Dayton, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Business Journal, Op-Ed, Orange County, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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November 5, 2010 – 10:37 am
Harry Alford, National Black Chamber of Commerce president and frequent critic of discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) penned another column trashing PLAs that will run in numerous newspapers across the country this week. The piece attacks special interest schemes similar to PLAs that funnel taxpayer-funded construction jobs to union members and away from the [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Congressional Black Caucus, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Harry Alford, Helpers, Minority Contracting, National Black Chamber of Commerce, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs Discriminate, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Salting
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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, [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Columbus Dispatch, Ohio, Ohio School Facilities Commission, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, Press Release, Project Labor Agreements, Radio Ad, School Construction, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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