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Solano County in California Uses Erroneous Citation of State Law to Justify Project Labor Agreement

October 6, 2010 – 9:06 am

Associated Builders and Contractors’ (ABC) government affairs staff in California knows the state’s labor laws and public contracting laws, inside and out. So ABC representatives immediately spotted the error when they read the Solano County Department of General Services staff report for the September 28, 2010 Board of Supervisors meeting that justified the use of [...]

By Kevin Dayton | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC California, California, Kevin Dayton, local legislation, PLA Loss, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, Project Labor Agreements, San Francisco, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers | Comments (0)

Project Labor Agreements and Big Labor Fail at Local Job Creation

August 5, 2010 – 10:42 am

Big Labor bosses and government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) advocates frequently claim that PLAs are the only way to guarantee local hire on construction projects funded by tax dollars. Of course, this is another myth promoted by special interests to convince lawmakers and taxpayers that there is a public benefit to anti-competitive and costly PLA [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC California, ABC Iowa, ABC Michigan, Baltimore, California, checkerboarding, Des Moines, Detroit, Detroit Free Press, featured, Iowa, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review Journal, local hire, Michigan, Nationals Park PLA, New York, NY Daily News, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Inquirer, PLAs, San Diego Union Tribune, San Francisco, San Francisco Examiner, The Politics of PLAs, Travelers/Boomers, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Washington DC, Yankee Stadium | Comments (4)

Op-Ed Critical of Fed Gift to Big Labor in California

February 12, 2010 – 10:27 am

The Napa Valley Register ran an Op-Ed by Carole Bionda, vice-president of ABC member Nova Group in Napa, CA, that is critical of president Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 and other special interest giveaways to Big Labor that will kill jobs and increase wasteful federal spending (“Stopping the blows to construction industry,” 2/12/10). Of [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Carole Bionda, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GSA, Napa Valley Register, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, San Francisco, Section 7 | Comments (1)

Independent Study Finds PLAs Increase Construction Costs

November 2, 2009 – 5:51 am

A TruthAboutPLAs.com reader sent us a June 2009 study conducted by property and construction consulting firm Rider Levett Bucknall prepared for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Construction and Facilities Management. The VA hired this firm to evaluate the cost impact of project labor agreements (PLAs) in various markets where the VA [...]

By Ben Brubeck | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Denver, Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Hospital Construction, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, San Francisco, Veterans Administration | Comments (11)