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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September 2, 2010 – 4:33 pm
There is an interesting story on Fox & Hounds Daily (California politics and business blog) about big Labor and their allies push for costly project labor agreements (PLAs) even on privately funded projects built to benefit society – like museums. Here are the highlights with our emphasis added (L.A. to Eli Broad: ‘Stick ‘em Up’, [...]
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 [...]
UCLA economics professor Lee O’Hanian writes July 8 in the Wall Street Journal that “recent decisions by President Obama and his administration to increase unionization are steps in the wrong direction” to achieve economic recovery in America: These steps include executive orders that increase union bargaining power, including one that gave preference to union labor on [...]
In an must-read op-ed penned by Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) National Chairman Jim Elmer of Spokane, WA for The Seattle Times (“Obama Administration Kicking Construction When it’s Down,” 7/5/10), Elmer lays out the chilling, job-killing impact that the Obama administration’s pro-Big Labor policies are having on main street construction firms. Here are the highlights [...]
The Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby blasts Mass. Gov. Patrick’s support of anti-competitive and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on Umass-Boston construction projects (“Labor agreements make no sense,” 6/27). THIS IS the kind of thing, Charlie Baker was saying one day last week, that “makes people crazy about state government.’’ The Republican gubernatorial candidate was [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Big Dig, Boston Globe, Charles Baker, Gov. Patrick, Massachusetts, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, UMASS
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In an op-ed published in the June 19 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette titled, “State’s Union-Friendly Deals Unfair, too Costly,” Stephen R. Campbell and Vicki Craft Kearns present a well-written overview of the project labor agreement (PLA) issue in Pennsylvania and nationwide. The op-ed also does an excellent job laying out how Big Labor’s support [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Department of General Services, Federal Legislation, Keystone Research Center, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, Prisons, Rendell, State Legislation, The Politics of PLAs
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Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of California Government Affairs Director and TheTruthAboutPLAs.com contributor Kevin Dayton outlines the history of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) in regard to apprenticeship in California in a June 1 op-ed titled, “ABC Fights to Preserve Apprenticeship Training Opportunities for Future Construction Work Force,” published by the San Diego [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged 2010 Election, ABC California, apprentices, Ballot Initiative, California, Chula Vista, Kevin Dayton, Legal Challenge, Oceanside, Op-Ed, PLAs Discriminate, Project Labor Agreements, San Diego
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