First Project Labor Agreement Under Obama Administration Cancelled
We have breaking news about the controversial U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Job Corps Center that has been covered numerous times here at TheTruthAboutPLAs.com. Below is a news release from ABC National. New Release ABC Defeats Unlawful and Discriminatory New Hampshire Construction Contract Move Comes in Response to ABC Member Protest Washington, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors […]
Op-Ed: Favoring Unions Hurts Taxpayers
In an op-ed titled, “Favoring Unions Hurts Taxpayers,” in the November 5 edition of the Tampa Bay Tribune, ABC Gulf Coast Chapter President Steve Cona, Jr. notes that President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 could keep 97 percent of Florida’s private construction workforce from building projects paid for with their own tax dollars. Executive Order 13502 […]
Contractor “Sidelined” by Big Labor’s Project Labor Agreement Payback
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ran an excellent Q & A interview with Ken Holmes, President of ABC member company North Branch Construction of Concord, New Hampshire (“Sidelined by Unions’ Payback,” 10/31). Holmes filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office about the discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the new U.S. Department of […]
New Hampshire Public Radio on Project Labor Agreement Controversy
New Hampshire Public Radio produced a fair and balanced report on the discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the new U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire (“Concord Company Complains About Project Labor Agreements,” 10/14). Listen here.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial: The Project Labor Agreement Shakedown
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ran a scathing editorial about project labor agreements (PLAs) in light of the controversy surrounding Executive Order 13502 and the government-mandated PLA on the new U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire (“The PLA Shakedown,” 10/11). PLAs pervertedly are touted as giving taxpayers more bang for their buck. […]
Manchester Mayor Opposes Federal Project Labor Agreement
The Office of Manchester, New Hampshire Mayor Frank Guinta issued a press release on 10/8, expressing concern that, “jobs for Manchester residents and New Hampshire firms will be shut out by the Obama administration’s insistence that the Job Corps Center, slated to be built at the Northwest Business Park at Hackett Hill, be contracted by […]
Fox Business News Interview of North Branch Construction on New Hampshire Federal Project Labor Agreement
Ken Holmes, president of North Branch Construction, appeared on Fox Business Channel this afternoon to discuss the discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the new U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire . You can view the video here.
U.S. House Education and Labor Committee Senior Republican Member: Project Labor Agreements Offer Preview of Employee Free Choice Act
Rep. John Kline, senior Republican member of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, issued a press release warning Americans that the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire and Executive Order 13502 is the “evil twin” of the Employee Free Forced Choice […]
Glenn Beck on Federal Project Labor Agreement in New Hampshire
Glenn Beck mentioned the discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the new U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire on his 10/7 program. A brief blurb about this issue appeared on the 9.12 Project website, which linked to The Washington Times story (“Obama Puts Union Strings on Federal […]
More Coverage of Federal Project Labor Agreement in New Hampshire
The media continues to take interest in the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the U.S. Department of Labor’s new $35 million Job Corps center in Manchester, New Hampshire The Concord Monitor ran a piece that features a quote from a qualified New Hampshire nonunion business, demonstrating that a PLA cuts competition (“Builder Confronts Union Law,” […]