Rockview

PA Senator Fights Rockview Prison PLA

1 June 24, 2009  State & Local Construction, Uncategorized

Pennsylvania is building a series of jails around the Commonwealth and construction unions are lobbying hard to ensure discriminatory and costly PLAs on each jail.  These sweetheart deals for Big Labor will funnel lucrative state construction contracts directly to unionized contractors and their union workforce with little to no competition from non-union contractors and the more than eight out […]

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Fox in the Hen House

0 May 19, 2009  State & Local Construction, Uncategorized

In March, the Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS) announced the construction of two future prisons, costing approximately $400 million.  The projects’ general contractor hired Keystone Research Center (KRC) to research the feasibility of a PLA on the projects – despite numerous existing studies that already prove that union-only PLAs are wasteful and discriminatory. Luckily, […]

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