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Ohio Leaders Refuse to Build Four Schools for the Price of Five

2 February 27, 2011  School Construction, State & Local Construction, Uncategorized

This week, Ohio leaders stood up and said NO to taxpayer funded handouts to Big Labor.  The Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) voted Thursday to approve a policy that prohibits the use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on school construction projects financed by the OSFC.  This reverses a policy adopted by former Gov. Ted Strickland’s […]

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Solving Euclid’s Project Labor Agreement Problem

1 January 18, 2011  School Construction, State & Local Construction

Corruption, Big Labor’s powerful special interest lobby, a change in Ohio’s political leadership, and poorly researched and half-baked public policy are all variables in a complicated equation the people of Euclid, Ohio, are desperate to solve. In November 2009, Euclid City School District voters barely passed Issue #105 – a $40.3 million bond measure (see election results […]

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