NAVFAC Project Labor Agreement Surveys for Two U.S. Naval Academy Building Facade Renovations Due July 24
The U.S. Navy’s Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Washington office is requesting comments from the construction community addressing potential government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) to repair two building facades – Rickover Hall and Nimitz Library – at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Responses to the Rickover Hall survey must be submitted to richard.rawlings@navy.mil, by 2:00 PM on […]
Great Scott: Projects Bid With and Without PLA Mandates Show PLAs Increase Costs and Reduce Competition
While researching the use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in West Virginia in advance of Wednesday’s deadline for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) survey about a potential PLA mandate on a large-scale federal project in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., TheTruthAboutPLAs.com went back in time to revisit another real-world example of how discriminatory PLA […]
USACE PLA Survey For Delaware Beach Repair Due Feb 13
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Philadelphia District is requesting comments from the construction community addressing a potential government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) for large-scale federal flood control and coastal emergency beach reconstruction projects along the Delaware coast from Cape Henlopen to Fenwick Island, Delaware. To review and learn how to respond to the PLA survey, […]
Due Jan. 14: Responses to USACE PLA Survey for Large-Scale Baltimore-Washington Area Projects
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Baltimore District has issued a survey requesting feedback from the construction industry about a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) for unspecified large-scale construction and renovation projects within the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., corridor. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com encourages the merit shop contracting community to tell the USACE that government-mandated PLAs reduce competition, increase costs, […]
NAVFAC Issues PLA Survey for Project at Naval Support Activity in Bethesda
Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) issued a survey requesting information from the construction industry about a potential government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) for an Electrical Capacity and Cooling Towers project at Naval Support Activity, Bethesda, Md. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond. Tell NAVFAC that government-mandated PLAs reduce competition, increase costs, and impede the economy […]
Maryland Cozies Up to Project Labor Agreement Schemes
Free enterprise is under attack in Maryland and the merit shop contracting community, which employs 88.6 percent of the state’s construction workforce, will be denied a fair opportunity to compete for construction contracts due to the rise of special interest favoritism. Two recent media reports highlight how Maryland lawmakers and the administration of Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) are capitulating to Big […]
Congressman Bartlett Supports Free Enterprise and Maryland’s Construction Community
Maryland’s construction industry and taxpayers have a friend in Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) and need to send him back to Washington Nov. 6. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com readers know Rep. Bartlett has worked tirelessly to ensure federal construction contracts are truly open to all of Maryland’s qualified businesses and construction workforce instead of only well-connected special interests and out-of-state contractors […]
First Project under Prince George’s County’s New Pro-PLA Policy a Disaster
Prince George’s County’s first attempt to implement a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) mandate under a November 15, 2011, policy (read the Prince George’s County press release on the policy here) is poised to be a costly disaster for county residents. Bids have been submitted for a fire station construction project in Brandywine, Md., […]
Maryland County Says NO to PLA Mandates
State and local leaders continue to say NO to wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) mandates. The latest to do so is Anne Arundel County, MD, where local leaders adopted a ban on government-mandated PLAs on January 17. Maryland joins California, Texas and Pennsylvania as states in which local government entities have approved […]
Bids for Maryland’s Cheltenham Juvenile Detention Center Tainted by Big Labor Favoritism
Today the ABC Maryland Joint Legislative Committee issued this release in response to the Maryland Department of General Services’ (DGS) decision to include a provision in a Nov. 11, 2011, request for proposal (RFP) regarding a juvenile detention center in Cheltenham, Md. (Prince George’s County) that unfairly favors construction managers (CMs) promising to mandate a […]