Construction unions market project labor agreements (PLAs) to public and private construction owners as a tool to guarantee labor peace on construction projects. But recent examples of strikes on PLA projects in NYC and other areas across the U.S. call into question the value of these anti-competitive schemes designed steer contracts to union contractors and union members. MYTH: [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Boston Herald, Cement and Concrete Workers of New York, Crain's New York Business, featured, Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition), Indiana, Ironworkers, Joseph Hunt, Labor Unrest, Laborers International Union of North America, Laborers Union, Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineer, Los Angeles, Maury Baskin, New York, New York Building and Construction Trades Council, PLA Basics, PLA Myth, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, Project Labor Agreements, Regional Plan Association, Strikes, Wall Street Journal
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The title says it all and we completely agree! The editorial board at The Wall Street Journal has again come out against wasteful and discriminatory government-mandated PLAs. Here are the highlights from the editorial (“Project Labor Revolt: The states ban union political bid-rigging. Obama demurs,” 7/19/11): One benefit of the squeeze on state and local [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged 2010 Election, ABC Iowa, ABC Michigan, Arizona, Arkansas, Ballot Initiative, California, Chula Vista, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Idaho, Iowa, Kevin Dayton, local legislation, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Open Competition, PLA Basics, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, State Executive Order, State Legislation, Tennessee, Utah, Wall Street Journal
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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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November 2, 2010 – 12:56 pm
In defense of President Obama’s controversial pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502, Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of the Middle Class Taskforce, made this misleading claim about PLAs in a White House blog post on 4/12/10 (read more on Bernstein here): PLAs also help ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing workplace [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC California, ABC-CCC, California, Do Project Labor Agreements Ensure Compliance with Labor Laws?, Evidence That Project Labor Agreements Don't Guarantee a Safer Workplace, Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Jared Bernstein, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Business Journal, PLA Basics, PLA Myth, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, White House Middle Class Task Force
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TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has long maintained that government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) are one of the purest forms of payback to special interests. Sometimes it is hard to believe that PLAs are even legal. And as this example will demonstrate, elected officials go to great lengths to justify their paybacks to special interests. Matthew J. Brouillette, president [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Benner Township, Centre County, Commonwealth Foundation, Department of General Services, Keystone Research Center, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Inquirer, PLA Basics, PLA Fact, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements, Rendell, Rockview, The Philadelphia Independent, Union Propaganda Machine
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According to a press release by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University, in Boston Mass., a new poll of Massachusetts voters indicates the public opposes a key provision of typical PLAs. A new survey conducted by the Suffolk University Political Research Center for the Beacon Hill Institute shows that 69% of Massachusetts voters oppose a [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Boston Herald, David G. Tuerck, Executive Order 13502, Massachusetts, McGowan, pensions, PLA Basics, PLAs, PLAs Discriminate, Polls, Project Labor Agreements, The Public Opposes PLAs
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February 16, 2010 – 5:31 pm
There is a textbook example of PLAs being used as political payback to Big Labor from politicians that need union support brewing in Iowa right now. This is a story about America’s most politically endangered incumbent governor and the unrealized dreams of one special interest group – Big Labor. When Democrats took over Iowa’s state [...]
January 20, 2010 – 9:25 am
Despite the special interest handouts to Big Labor by politicians supported by construction trades unions at the local, state and federal level, trouble’s brewing in the fragile house of Big Labor. A TruthAboutPLAs.com reader sent me this sensational letter from Terry Nelson, executive secretary treasurer of the Carpenters’ Disctrict Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity. Nelson is outraged that [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged BCTD, Carpenters, Gerald Feldhaus, Jurisdictional Dispute, Labor Unrest, Mark Ayers, PLA Basics, PLA Fact, PLA hypocrisy, PLA Myth, PLAs, Project Labor Agreements, St. Louis, Strikes, Terry Nelson
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December 30, 2009 – 9:42 am
The Imperial County Board of Supervisors (California) rejected a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement requirement as part of a green job training and weatherization/retrofit program at their December 22 meeting. Here is Associated Builders and Contractors – San Diego Chapter’s press release: Imperial County Supervisors Reject Big Labor’s Monopoly Scam Disguised as Green Jobs [...]
October 7, 2009 – 11:28 am
The Washington Times covered President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 and the bid protest filed this week with the Government Accountability Office by North Branch Construction, a Concord, N.H.-based general contractor and member of ABC (“Obama Puts Union Strings on Federal Jobs,” 10/7). The focus of the bid protest is a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Brett McMahon, Executive Order 13502, Legal Challenge, Manchester, New Hampshire, pensions, PLA Basics, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Right to Work, Washington Times
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