November 2, 2010 – 12:56 pm
In defense of President Obama’s controversial pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502, Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of the Middle Class Taskforce, made this misleading claim about PLAs in a White House blog post on 4/12/10 (read more on Bernstein here): PLAs also help ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing workplace [...]
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Tagged ABC California, ABC-CCC, California, Do Project Labor Agreements Ensure Compliance with Labor Laws?, Evidence That Project Labor Agreements Don't Guarantee a Safer Workplace, Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Jared Bernstein, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Business Journal, PLA Basics, PLA Myth, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs, White House Middle Class Task Force
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If the April 13 final rule implementing President Obama’s Feb. 6, 2009 pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 didn’t make it clear that the Obama administration has a cozy relationship with Big Labor and is doing everything possible to cater to its key special interest by promoting PLAs, here’s what Vice President Joe Biden had to say [...]
April 19, 2010 – 11:18 am
A piece by Washington Examiner Commentary Staff Writer Mark Hemingway argues that the, “White House’s Middle Class Task Force is nothing but a shibboleth for instituting a number of expensive pro-union regulatory reforms…” (“Big Labor’s ‘Middle Class’ Task Force,” 4/19). TheTruthAboutPLAs.com reported March 3 that the Feb. 26 report from the White House Middle Class Task [...]
By Ben Brubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, High Road Contracting, Jared Bernstein, Op-Ed, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Washington Examiner, White House Middle Class Task Force
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The public continues to cover the Obama administration’s controversial final rule encouraging federal agencies to require project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects costing more than $25 million. It’s a sop to Big Labor that is sure to increase construction costs, cut competition and inject some Chicago-style cronyism into the federal construction procurement process. A Washington [...]
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Tagged ABC Newsline, Austan Goolsbee, Brett McMahon, CNBC, Editorial, ENR, Executive Order 13502, FAR Final Rule, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Fox News, GOP.com, Jared Bernstein, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, Power Lunch, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Republic National Committee, Washington Examiner, White House Middle Class Task Force
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The construction industry is still waiting for the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council to issue a final rule on regulations that promote project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects exceeding $25 million, as directed by President Obama’s Feb. 6, 2009 Executive Order 13502. After months of intense opposition and no comment from the White House or action by [...]
