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New York Firm Wins Lawsuit Against NYS DOT’s Government-Mandated PLA

March 19, 2012 – 12:25 pm

There was a significant legal victory for taxpayers and merit shop construction firms in New York recently. As we reported in 2011, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYS DOT) implemented a project labor agreement (PLA) requirement on a highway reconstruction and bridge replacement project near Exit 122 on Route 17 in Orange County, [...]

By Andy Conlin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Exit 122, Legal Challenge, local legislation, New York, PLA Study, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements | Comments (0)

Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements Harm Union Contractors and Tradespeople

August 24, 2011 – 2:51 pm

The debate surrounding government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) is often framed by the media and elected officials as a dispute pitting union signatory contractors and their union employees against nonunion contractors and their nonunion employees. However, a recent lawsuit attacking government-mandated PLAs on $6 billion worth of taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects through 2014 in New York [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC Empire State, AGC, Bayonne, Building Industry Electrical Contractors Association (BIECA), Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements Harm Union Contractors and Tradespeople, Hill International, International Steelworkers Union, Keystone Research Center, Legal Challenge, New Jersey, New York, New York Building and Construction Trades Council, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Union Contractors Opposed to PLAs, United Electrical Contractors Association (UECA) | Comments (1)

Project Labor Agreements on California School Construction Raise Costs up to 15 Percent, Study Says

July 27, 2011 – 5:40 pm

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 | Posted in Uncategorized | 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, Sacramento, Sacramento Bee, School Construction | Comments (0)

Beacon Hill Institute Responds to Attacks on Project Labor Agreement Research

July 22, 2011 – 12:01 pm

Dr. David Tuerck, Executive Director of The Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Suffolk University, asked TheTruthAboutPLAs.com to post the following note and related correspondence to U.S. Congress in response to attacks by Dr. Peter Phillips, economics professor at the University of Utah, on BHI’s research on the impact of government-mandated [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Dr. Peter Phillips, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Cummings, Rep. James Lankford, Utah | Comments (0)

Report Documents Construction Defects on PLA Projects

April 12, 2011 – 6:49 am

As part of our ongoing series publishing the truth about government-mandated projects labor agreements (PLAs), here is a chapter documenting Construction Defects on PLA Projects from Maury Baskin’s Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition). V. Construction Defects on PLA Projects Many PLA projects have suffered from serious construction defects, [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Construction Defect, Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition), Maury Baskin, PLA Study, PLAs, Project Labor Agreements | Comments (0)

Report Documents Construction Delays on PLA Projects

April 11, 2011 – 10:24 am

As part of our ongoing series publishing the truth about government-mandated projects labor agreements (PLAs), here is a chapter documenting Construction Delays on PLA Projects from Maury Baskin’s Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition). IV. Construction Delays on PLA Projects Another argument often made in support of government-mandated PLAs [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Construction Delay, Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition), Maury Baskin, PLA Study, PLAs, Project Labor Agreements | Comments (1)

Report Documents Reduced Competition on PLA Projects

April 9, 2011 – 9:29 am

As part of our ongoing series publishing the truth about government-mandated projects labor agreements (PLAs), here is a chapter documenting Reduced Competition on PLA Projects from Maury Baskin’s Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition). III. Reduced Competition on PLA Projects According to a number of published sources, a contributing [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition), PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, Project Labor Agreements | Comments (1)

Report Documents Increased Costs on PLA Projects

April 8, 2011 – 8:49 am

As part of our ongoing series publishing the truth about government-mandated projects labor agreements (PLAs), here is a chapter documenting Increased Costs on PLA Projects from Maury Baskin’s Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition). II. Increased Costs on PLA Projects Proponents of PLAs frequently claim that such agreements will [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition), Maury Baskin, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements | Comments (0)

Report Documents the Public Record of Poor Performance of Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements

April 7, 2011 – 10:44 am

Proponents of anti-competitive and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) use a variety of misleading arguments to convince public officials that granting union-signatory contractors and union labor a virtual monopoly on public construction projects through PLAs is in the public’s best interest. If public officials have not already been influenced by the cycle of PLA [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Construction Defect, Construction Delay, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition), PLA Problems Involving Minorities and Women, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Safety Problem on PLA Project, Union-only PLAs harm local workers | Comments (0)

An Introduction From Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance

April 7, 2011 – 10:43 am

As part of our ongoing series publishing the truth about government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs), here is an Introduction to Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements from Maury Baskin’s Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition). I. Introduction Government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) are agreements that some public entities require construction contractors [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements: The Public Record of Poor Performance (2011 Edition), Introduction, Maury Baskin, PLA Study, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements | Comments (0)