The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore wrote in yesterday’s Political Diary, via FlashReport (“Unions on the Run in the Golden State,” 6/22): It’s rare these days for unions to suffer a political setback, but the California election results in early June were a big defeat. Now a business group that played a key role in the [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged ABC California, Ballot Initiative, Brett McMahon, California, Chula Vista, Oceanside, PLAs, Prop G, Prop K, Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal
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In an editorial today, the Wall Street Journal slammed union-favoring project labor agreements (PLAs). Just last week, voters in the San Diego area “voted to prohibit the city from bowing to union demands” and prohibited these discriminatory and costly agreements on municipal construction projects in Chula Vista and Oceanside, California. The WSJ noted that, “From [...]
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Tagged ABC California, Ballot Initiative, California, Chula Vista, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Prop G, Prop K, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wall Street Journal
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The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board continues to criticize the Obama administration’s steady support of Big Labor’s special interest agenda (“Obama’s Union Favors: The Latest Rule Change Slams The Airlines,” 5/15). The latest gift to Big Labor benefits labor unions in the airline industry. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com readers may recall that an April 14, 2010 WSJ editorial blasted President Obama’s scheme to funnel [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Editorial, Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, Wall Street Journal
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Today nonunion contractors and their skilled employees that build federal construction projects are preparing for more job losses as a result of a federal government rule promoting special interest schemes that funnel lucrative federal construction contracts to unionized contractors. It is more bad news for the construction industry which is already suffering from 22 percent unemployment. But it [...]
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wall Street Journal
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The Wall Street Journal reported on a preposterous construction labor dispute illustrating Big Labor’s grip on the Big Apple (“Union Spat Clouds School Project,” 5/3/10). The New School is planning to build a $215 million classroom and dormitory building on the corner of 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, but the Painters Union DC 9 is [...]
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Tagged Edward Malloy, McGraw Hill Construction, New York, New York Times, Painters Union, PLA victim, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Subcontracting News, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wall Street Journal
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Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial blasts President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 that was implemented into federal procurement regulations thanks to the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council’s final rule issued yesterday (“Crony Contracts. Want federal business? Better be a union shop.” 4/14). This editorial is one for the ages. Let’s hope federal agencies and [...]
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Maury Baskin, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Veterans Administration, Wall Street Journal
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While you were out rebuilding America, here are yesterday’s media reports and notable statements on today’s final rule implementing President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 into federal procurement regulations. Wall Street Journal (“Unions Win Public Contracting Row,” 4/12) Statement from House Education and Labor Committee Senior Republican Member Rep. John Kline (R-MN) Workforce Fairness Institute [...]
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Tagged Education and Labor, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, HaltTheAssault.com, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Portfolio, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Kline, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wall Street Journal, Worforce Fairness Institute, Workforce Fairness Institute
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An editorial in today’s Washington Times blasts President Obama’s Big Labor Payback via the pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 and rumored Easter recess appointment of SEIU and AFL-CIO Counsel Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB is the critical federal agency that supervises and conducts union representation elections and rules on unfair [...]
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Tagged Craig Becker, Editorial, EFCA, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, pensions, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times
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As www.TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has said before, one of the reasons construction unions push discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) is because they are a windfall for their mismanaged and underfunded pension programs. The Wall Street Journal’s July 26 opinion piece, Union Pensions in the Red, exposed the inadequate funding levels of numerous union pension plans’ and lists Big Labor’s [...]
Yesterday I wrote about how pension provisions in typical PLAs: Hurt retirement for non-union workers. Employer retirement contributions into union pension plans on behalf of non-union workers are forfeited unless workers join a union. Keep underfunded and mismanaged union pension plans afloat. Expose contractors to underfunded multi-employer pension withdrawal liability. Increase costs to construction users because [...]
