January 20, 2012 – 12:26 pm
This week the Obama administration killed Phase 3 and Phase 4 of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline project (for now), which would have connected Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the existing pipeline to new pipeline that would carry crude oil 1,600 miles from Alberta, Canada, to Gulf Coast refineries. The State Department’s denial of the [...]
February 2, 2011 – 11:59 am
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com readers have been sending emails and comments about recent reports that Wal-Mart has signed a multi-store project labor agreement (PLA) with Chicago area building trades unions for about $1 billion worth of construction during the next five years. The construction of “several dozen” stores in 19 counties is expected to create 10,000 permanent jobs [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Chicago and Cook County Building and Construction Trades Council, Executive Order 13502, Gov. Quinn, Illinois, Mark Ayers, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, private PLA, Private PLAs, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wal-Mart
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October 13, 2010 – 11:18 am
In a stunning move, the Lansing, MI City Council has decided to put political payback to powerful special interests ahead of creating jobs for local residents. This wouldn’t be THAT big of a deal, except the East Lansing-Lansing unemployment rate has jumped to over 10 percent. Major development plans for downtown Lansing are now delayed [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC Michigan, Economic Development, Editorial, Lansing, Lansing City Market, Lansing State Journal, local legislation, Michigan, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, PLAs Kill Jobs, Private PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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September 23, 2010 – 12:43 pm
In October 2001, the California Research Bureau released a “study” commissioned by California State Senate Pro Tem and Big Labor advocate John Burton (D-San Francisco) about Project Labor Agreements (PLAs). As you can imagine, this report was full of logical fallacies, but fulfilled the intention of Sen. Burton to get an “authoritative” study to support PLAs [...]
During the August 7 edition of FOX News’ Happening Now, William La Jeunesse exposes union attempts to monopolize green construction through exploiting state and local environmental permitting processes – a tactic known as greenmail. Don’t be fooled by Big Labor’s attempts to portray themselves as protectors of the environment. As this report shows, the [...]
In California, Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) are the primary tactic used by construction unions to gain market share in the industry. And PLAs are not confined to public works projects. Particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Sacramento area, the City of Los Angeles, and the San Diego area, private developers have been signing [...]
By Kevin Dayton
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Tagged California, California Energy Commission, California Environmental Quality Act, California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE), corporate campaign, Gaylord Hotel, Greenmail, PLA Fact, PLA victim, PLAs, Power plant, Private PLAs, Project Labor Agreements
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According to this 4/30/09 NY Times article by Charles V. Bagli, New York City’s real estate developers, contractors and construction unions have been trying to negotiate wage concessions and other cost saving measures that labor and political spindoctors are touting as a solution to revive New York’s stalled construction and real estate market. The writers here at TheTruthAboutPLAs.com affectionately refer to [...]
