No Shame: Northern California Power Agency to Vote AGAIN on Union Construction Agreements for Power Plant
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 […]
Bizarre 3-3-5-9 Deadlocked Vote Preserves Fair and Open Bid Competition for Large California Power Plant
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. […]
San Diego PLA News Wrap-up
There are several interesting developments in the fight for open competition in San Diego. San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Superintendent Terry Grier’s decision to take a new job in Houston, TX is no surprise to the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board, who blame the local teachers union and their labor allies for pushing Mr. […]
Chula Vista Open Competition Ordinance Qualifies for June 2010 Ballot
The citizens of Chula Vista, California will have the opportunity to vote against Big Labor favoritism. ABC of San Diego’s petition to require open competition on city-funded construction projects received the required 10,399 signatures to be placed on the ballot in June 2010. If adopted, this ballot measure will prohibit wasteful and discriminatory union-only projects […]
FOX News Report Exposes Union Greenmail
During the August 7 edition of FOX News’ Happening Now, William La Jeunesse exposes union attempts to monopolize green construction through exploiting state and local environmental permitting processes – a tactic known as greenmail. Don’t be fooled by Big Labor’s attempts to portray themselves as protectors of the environment. As this report shows, the […]
Update: PLAs Are About Politics: the California Experience
After twelve years of fighting Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) at local governments in California, I’ve developed a set of axioms based on my experiences. One of these axioms is that PLAs are about politics, not logic. After all, what kind of logic would lead an elected official to establish work conditions that would discourage perfectly […]
State and Local PLA News Roundup: July 12-18
While much of this week’s attention focued on Obama administration attempts to encourage federal department and agency heads to utilize wasteful and discriminatory union-only project labor agreements, there have been PLA developments at the state and local levels that warrent attention as well. In Trumbull, CT subcontractors for the Trumbull High School renovation/reconstruction project have been selected. The local construction unions’ are […]
ABC of California Appears on FOX News and Union Greenmail Exposed by New York Times
Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail — a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) — FOX News Channel’s Neil Cavuto did […]
Bad Medicine – Walgreens Agrees to PLAs in Minnesota
Though much of this blog’s attention has focused on public PLAs, it’s also important to note the negative impact of private PLAs and the tactics used by Big Labor to get them as well. Sure, a private entity is free to enter into an agreement with Big Labor that will increase its construction costs by […]
Just Say “NO” to Democracy
As our friends at thetruthaboutEFCA.com understand, Big Labor hates democracy (except when they can spend hundreds of millions of dollars to influence the outcome). It turns out that when given the facts, the American people frequently oppose Big Labor and its agenda. This is why Big Labor would rather decisions be made by politicians, and […]