Green Jobs

Is Union-only the Best Way to “Rebuild the Dream?”

1 August 10, 2011  Federal Construction, Uncategorized

Michelle Malkin has a new piece exposing disgraced Obama administration green jobs czar Van Jones’ latest attempt to advocate for policies that tilt the scales for construction workers with union cards when competing for federal construction. Here are the highlights with our emphasis added: The problem, posits [Van] Jones, is that his fellow community organizer […]

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Minority Contractors and Business Associations Take Leadership Role in Fighting Project Labor Agreements in California Coastal Cities

1 March 9, 2011  State & Local Construction, Uncategorized

Minority contractors and minority business associations in California are taking a political leadership role in Los Angeles and Oakland to oppose proposed project labor agreements (PLAs). LOS ANGELES COUNTY On March 1, 2011, Small Business United (SBU), described as “a coalition of small business groups and professional associations representing a diverse set of constituencies from […]

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Newspaper in Mojave Desert: “Nobody with Half a Brain” Believes Construction Unions Fear Environmental Risks from Solar Power

0 February 15, 2011  State & Local Construction, Transportation & Infrastructure, Uncategorized

An editorial in the February 14, 2011 Barstow Desert-Dispatch (“Greenmail” a Threat to Energy Projects) is blunt about the union “greenmail” scheme to exploit the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and block permits for the construction of solar and other renewable power plants in the Mojave Desert: …we now have another reason to be concerned […]

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San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors Votes 3-0 to Reject Union Appeal of Solar Project

0 February 9, 2011  State & Local Construction, Uncategorized

At its February 8, 2011 meeting, the San Bernardino County (California) Board of Supervisors voted 3-0 to reject a scheme by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 477 to block a permit to build a 40-megawatt solar photovoltaic generating facility in the Mojave Desert, near Kramer Junction. The San Bernardino County Planning Commission […]

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Union Blocks Yet Another Solar Project

1 February 7, 2011  State & Local Construction, Transportation & Infrastructure, Uncategorized

Tomorrow (February 8, 2011) the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors will discuss the environmental objections of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local No. 477 to a 40-megawatt solar photovoltaic generation facility proposed by LightSource Renewables for construction in unincorporated San Bernardino County near Kramer Junction in the Mojave Desert. Neither the San […]

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Los Angeles Times Exposes How Unions Misuse Environmental Laws to Block Solar Projects and Extract Project Labor Agreements

2 February 6, 2011  State & Local Construction, Uncategorized

An article in today’s Los Angeles Times (“Labor Coalition’s Tactics on Renewable Energy Projects Are Criticized” February 5, 2011) exposes how a union front group called California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE) has exploited environmental laws to block permits for solar thermal power plants until the developers sign project labor agreements. Objecting to this environmental […]

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Imperial County Supervisors Reject Big Labor’s Monopoly Scam Disguised as Green Jobs Program

1 December 30, 2009  State & Local Construction, Uncategorized

The Imperial County Board of Supervisors (California) rejected a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement requirement as part of a green job training and weatherization/retrofit program at their December 22 meeting.  Here is Associated Builders and Contractors – San Diego Chapter’s press release: Imperial County Supervisors Reject Big Labor’s Monopoly Scam Disguised as Green Jobs […]

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No Shame: Northern California Power Agency to Vote AGAIN on Union Construction Agreements for Power Plant

1 October 26, 2009  State & Local Construction

Why is the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) staff and commission chairman (Lodi Mayor Larry Hansen) so desperate to have a project labor agreement and 30-year maintenance labor agreement for the construction and maintenance of the Lodi Energy Center power plant?  Why are they so eager to make a $150,000 payoff to an affiliate of […]

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Bizarre 3-3-5-9 Deadlocked Vote Preserves Fair and Open Bid Competition for Large California Power Plant

0 October 23, 2009  State & Local Construction, Transportation & Infrastructure

A popular political web site in California has posted a story by www.thetruthaboutPLAs.com contributor Kevin Dayton about a bizarre vote in northern California on October 22 to reject a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) proposed to prevent California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE) from blocking the approval of a power plant at the California Energy Commission. […]

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Harry Alford Defends Free Enterprise on Capital Hill and with Bill O’Reilly

1 July 21, 2009  Federal Construction, Uncategorized

TheTruthAboutPLAs.com wants to recognize defender of free enterprise and PLA fighter Harry Alford, President of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Alford has received national attention over his recent testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, in which he called Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to task for racially insensitive remarks. Once video of the exchange hit the Internet, it went […]

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