Columbus Dispatch: OSFC Director’s Union Bias is Inexcusable
Today The Columbus Dispatch published another editorial blasting Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) director Richard Murray for engaging in numerous acts of “union bias” and steering lucrative school construction contracts to union contractors and union members via project labor agreements (PLAs). Murray has been the subject of an investigation by the Ohio Inspector General’s office TheTruthAboutPLAs.com covered here and here. […]
Dem Candidate for Pennsylvania Governor: CCAC PLA Requirement was “Probably Wrong”
Allegheny County Executive and gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato (D) criticized the Community College of Allegheny County’s (CCAC) requirement that all bidders for the upcoming construction of a $21 million science building agree to sign a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) with Big Labor as a condition of performing work on this project. Here’s an […]
University of Iowa Board of Regents Give Final Approval to Coralville PLA
The University of Iowa Board of Regents gave its final approval to a proposal to require a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) on the construction of the $72 million University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics outpatient clinic at the Iowa River Landing in Coralville, IA. As we have reported in an earlier post, […]
Misfeasance: Ohio IG Report on OSFC PLA Scheme Continues to Gain Traction; Calls for Murray to Resign Grow
The media attention over the August 5 release of the Ohio Inspector General’s review of Richard Murray’s tenure as head of the Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) and his efforts to strong-arm local communities into wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) continued to gain traction over the weekend. Readers of TheTruthAboutPLAs.com know that Murray […]
People vs. Unions: Struggling for Open Competition in California
FOX News’ Special Report with Bret Baier is the latest to cover the grassroots effort to bring quality and accountability to taxpayer-funded construction by preventing the use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in California. Here is the video from the July 21 edition of Special Report: The FOX News Liveshots blog also covered this […]
Putting Bread on the Table for Big Labor
There was a small blurb from the Honolulu Star Advertiser’s (Gubernatorial Rivals Court Carpenters Union, 7/18) coverage of the Democrat gubernatorial candidates’ audition for the Hawaii Carpenters Union endorsement that is worth covering. Current Hawaii Representative and gubernatorial candidate Neil Abercrombie (HI-1) gave a quote that is telling about the true nature of wasteful and discriminatory project […]
Culver Campaign Fails to Understand How PLAs Harm Iowa Businesses
The executive order signed earlier this year by Iowa Gov. Chet Culver is becoming a gubernatorial campaign issue, as Republican challenger Terry Branstad and others critical of project labor agreements (PLAs) make the case that these anti-competitive schemes will hurt Iowa business and taxpayers (“Culver defends project labor agreements for public projects,” The Iowa Independent, […]
Chula Vista and Oceanside Reject Big Labor Handouts: Proposition G and Measure K Overwhelmingly Approved
Voters in Chula Vista, Calif., and Oceanside, Calif., approved ballot initiatives that prohibit local entities from requiring project labor agreements (PLAs) on city-funded construction projects. Chula Vista and Oceanside join the City of Fresno, Orange County and San Diego County in prohibiting PLAs on locally funded work. These two initiatives mark the first time voters […]
Chula Vista and Oceanside Fair and Open Competition Ballot Initiative Update
Voters in both the City of Oceanside and Chula Vista, California each had the opportunity to put an end to the use of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on construction projects funded by their cities yesterday. While there are no official results yet, early returns indicate that voters in both cities said NO […]
Election Day in California
Today, the citizens of Chula Vista and Oceanside, California will have an opportunity to vote on two measures – Proposition G in Chula Vista and Measure K in Oceanside – that will end the kind of backroom deals that leave taxpayers paying for four bridges, schools and roads for the price of five. As we […]