Another California County Poised to Prohibit PLAs, While the Riverside Community College District Trustees Can’t Help Themselves
…to ensure quality, accountability and results for their constituents, the Riverside Community College District Board of Trustees may do the opposite just hours later. The trustees are scheduled Tuesday, March 16 to consider whether to require PLAs on the funds remaining from the voter-approved $350 million Proposition C. As TheTruthAboutPLAs.com readers remember, the Riverside Community College District trustees voted during their December 15, 20…
Candidates Opposed to Project Labor Agreements Win Key Endorsements in Riverside County, California
…and a candidate running for an open seat) for the board of trustees of the Riverside Community College District, which serves residents of Riverside County, California. The editorial explicitly connected its endorsements to the “fiscal sobriety” of these three candidates, including their opposition to the project labor agreement (PLA) approved by the college board of trustees in a contentious 3-2 vote on March 16, 2010. Blumenthal, Green and David…
USACE Project Labor Agreement Survey For Riverside County, California, Due September 2
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Riverside Press-Enterprise Editorial Calls PLA a Labor Giveaway
…Press-Enterprise is correct again with their latest editorial opposing the Riverside Community College District project labor agreement (PLA) that is on tonight’s agenda (“Labor Giveaway,” 3/15/10). The Riverside Community College District has a public duty to protect taxpayers’ $350 million investment in new facilities. That duty requires the district to seek the best deal on new construction, not give labor unions an effective monopoly on the wo…
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com Calls For Eliminating Pro-Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreement Policy on Fox Business
…ent which also called for repeal of President Obama’s pro-PLA regulations (Commentary: The Only Way Trump Can Improve U.S. Infrastructure, 1/31/18): Off the bat, the administration should target regulations that needlessly drive up the cost of federally funded projects. These include the Davis-Bacon Act and project labor agreements, which significantly increase labor costs. Protectionist laws that further increase costs and limit competition, such…
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com Radio Appearance on Greenmail and Project Labor Agreements in California
…hensible vote on November 2 of the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) commissioners to approve a PLA for the $450 million Lodi Energy Center (including, much to the delight of Big Labor, a $90,000 direct and immediate payoff to a union slush fund) to avoid CURE’s attempts to delay the project. The TruthAboutPLAs.com covered this story here, here and here last week and Kevin Dayton wrote an interesting piece about it for The Fox and Hounds Dai…
Happy Halloween From TheTruthAboutPLAs.com
…Don’t be tricked by attacks on government-mandated PLAs by PLA advocates, get the truth here. Learn more about the impact of PLAs on cost and competition here. Happy Halloween from TheTruthAboutPLAs.com…
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com Presents The Night Before Christmas
…Election Day. We need smart leadership and government accountability without delay. So go forth, spread the good news of PLA-free fair competition To every school board, state chamber and county commission. Some parting words from TheTruthAboutPLAs.com before we continue the good fight, “Merry Christmas and free enterprise to all, and to all a good-night!”…
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com Presents The Night Before Christmas
…lection Day, We need smart leadership and government accountability without delay. So go forth, spread the good news of PLA-free fair competition, To every school board, state chamber and county commission. Some parting words from TheTruthAboutPLAs.com before we continue the good fight, “Merry Christmas and free enterprise to all, and to all a good-night!”…
ABC Member to CBN.com: Executive Order 13502 Threatens Jobs
…In a September 14th interview with CBN News, Brett McMahon of ABC member Miller & Long Concrete Construction calls Executive Order 13502 a “solution in search of a problem” and notes that project labor agreements show “unions are willing to sacrifice employment in general for their own individual gain.” Here at TheTruthAboutPLAs, we absolutely agree. Check out the interview below….