January 18, 2012 – 3:43 pm
State and local leaders continue to say NO to wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) mandates. The latest to do so is Anne Arundel County, MD, where local leaders adopted a ban on government-mandated PLAs on January 17. Maryland joins California, Texas and Pennsylvania as states in which local government entities have approved [...]
August 17, 2011 – 10:40 am
On August 15, State of Nevada District Court Judge Jerry Wiese ruled that a project labor agreement (PLA) imposed on contractors by the elected Clark County Board of Commissioners for a $17 million prison project in Las Vegas violated the state’s competitive bidding laws. The Nevada Supreme Court has asked Judge Wiese to evaluate the [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Clark County, Kevin Dayton, Las Vegas, Lawsuit, Nevada, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements
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February 1, 2011 – 3:52 pm
The Pennsylvania Supreme Count issued a preliminary ruling on the Hawbaker, et al. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of General Services, et al. Several uninformed media outlets have indicated that this ruling is an endorsement of PLAs. This is not the case. This case stems from former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell administration’s effort to force PLA requirements [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC Western Pennsylvania, Department of General Services, Legal Challenge, legal opinion, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements, Rendell
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September 20, 2010 – 2:56 pm
As we reported last week, John Falk of York, Pa. has started his walk for worker freedom. Falk is walking from York to the U.S. Capitol to deliver a petition urging Congress to repeal President Obama’s Executive Order 13502, which encourages federal agencies to require wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, John Falk, Pennsylvania, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, President Obama, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements, Rendell, Rep. John Bear, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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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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The Keystone Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors is holding a forum to discuss wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) as part of their May 11 Lt. Governors debate. This event is part of their Save the Endangered Species campaign to educate the public on the true impact of PLAs. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com’s Ben Brubeck is [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Commonwealth Foundation, Debate, Department of General Services, keystone, National Association of Minority Contractors, Pennsylvania, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, Prisons, Save the Endangered Species, The Politics of PLAs, TV Coverage
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An editorial in the Williamsport Sun Gazette questions the “source, timing and validity” of Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s remarks in his eighth and final budget address that chided “special interest groups for stymieing his legislative efforts to curb special interests” (“Timing suspicious on lobbyist crackdown,” 3/19). It also calls government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) a “rigged [...]
In what should be no surprise to anyone, Gov. Chet Culver announced today that the Iowa Department of Administrative Services has been approved to move forward with wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on two upcoming projects for the Department of Corrections. Here is the text of Gov. Culver’s release announcing the PLAs: Gov. [...]
There is renewed interest in the delayed construction of over $800 million worth of prison construction in Pennsylvania. As regular readers of TheTruthAboutPLAs.com remember, Gov. Ed Rendell (D) promised the Pennsylvania construction unions in 2008 that the Department of General Services (DGS) would require contractors to sign wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) in [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Benner Township, Department of General Services, Pennsylvania, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Increase Costs, PLAs Kill Jobs, Prisons, Rendell, Rockview, Save the Endangered Species, State Legislation, The Politics of PLAs
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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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