October 5, 2011 – 10:48 am
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has been reporting for weeks about the perils of SB 922 and other California legislation catering to Big Labor’s special interests by promoting anti-competitive and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs). After sailing through the California legislature via a deceptive gut and amend legislative vehicle originally about tuberculosis screening, Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed SB 922 [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC California, Ballot Initiative, California, Chula Vista, Editorial, Fox News, Fresno, Gov. Brown, local legislation, Oceanside, Orange County, Palmdale Water District, PLA Video, Placer County, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Proposition A, Sacramento, San Diego, San Diego County, SB 922, Stanislaus County, State Legislation, The Politics of PLAs, Wall Street Journal
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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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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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August 25, 2010 – 8:01 am
A third county in California has now prohibited project labor agreements (PLAs) on taxpayer-funded construction projects. On a 3-2 vote on August 24, the Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution adding a provision to its contracting policies that states “the County shall not require a contractor on a County public project to execute [...]
By Kevin Dayton
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Tagged 20 in 2010, ABC California, California, County, Greenmail, Kevin Dayton, local legislation, Orange County, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, San Diego, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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February 10, 2010 – 6:53 pm
There is a growing local movement in California to protect taxpayers and ensure the best quality construction at the best price by prohibiting project labor agreements (PLAs). On Tuesday, February 9, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, representing the sixth most populous county in the country, voted 5-0 to authorize supervisor Bill Horn to draft [...]
January 29, 2010 – 8:24 am
Here at TheTruthAboutPLAs, we want to congratulate the Orange County, California’s Board of Supervisors and the taxpayers they represent! PublicCEO.com, a daily web newsletter for public executive and administrative officials in California, has given the Local Government “Ordinance of the Year” award to the Orange County Board of Supervisors for the passage of the ordinance, [...]
November 4, 2009 – 8:47 am
It’s official. The nation’s fifth largest and perhaps most famous county has said NO to discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs). Yesterday, the Orange County (CA) Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance prohibiting government-mandated PLAs on county-funded construction projects. The ordinance was approved 5-0 last week, but had to be heard a second time yesterday [...]
October 28, 2009 – 8:46 am
Yesterday, the Orange County (CA) Board of Supervisors held a hearing and 5-0 approved an ordinance prohibiting government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on county-funded construction projects. The ordinance would prohibit the requirement of PLAs unless mandated by California and/or federal law and contractors are free to voluntarily enter into PLAs. Accoding to the Los Angeles Times, ordinance sponsor [...]
September 29, 2009 – 4:25 am
Another editorial, this time from Sunday’s Orange County Register, tells the public the truth about project labor agreements (PLAs) and commends the Orange County Board of Supervisors for taking legislative steps to end these costly and discriminatory special-interest sweetheart deals (“Editorial: Rein in Union Payoffs,” 9/27). One of the most noxious types of laws that localities will pass involve [...]
