Citizens Against Government Waste Guest Column: Pro-Big Labor White House Order Guarantees Government Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), America’s #1 Taxpayer Watchdog Group, published my guest column about Executive Order 13502 and federal government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in their Spring 2009 edition of Government WasteWatch (“Pro-Union White House Order Guarantees Government Waste,” 4/30). The column, published online last week, is below. Government spending watchdogs should be outraged by a recent White […]
PLAs Are “Morally Offensive”
More and more people are starting to notice President Obama’s handout (Executive Order 13502) to the construction unions. This time, it is Glen Meakem. Mr. Meakem is an economic innovator, Gulf War veteran, Harvard graduate and a radio host on several stations in Pennsylvania – and he thinks PLAs are “morally offensive.” Here is an excerpt […]
Op-Ed: Beware of Big Labor Paybacks in PA
The Central Penn Business Journal’s Op-Ed by Gus Perea warns of the economic consequences of Big Labor paybacks via Executive Order 13502 and project labor agreements (PLAs) (“Pennsylvania Taxpayers and Employers: Beware of Big Labor Paybacks,” 12/17). On the rare occasion that a nonunion contractor wins a PLA contract, the order would bully its employees into joining […]
New Jersey Project Labor Agreement Debate Grows
The debate over government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in New Jersey is in the news again. New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press ran a scathing editorial opposed to PLAs (Costly PLAs Must Be Ended, 11/16) that TheTruthAboutPLAs covered here. The paper published an Op-Ed defending PLAs by Phillip E. Cooney, vice president of the New Jersey Carpenter Contractor […]
Update – PLAs Rock Plymouth: Big Labor Threats and Misinformation
There is an update to a TheTruthAboutPLAs.com blog post from November 19 titled, “PLAs Rocked Plymouth Studio.” The post highlighted an op-ed by ABC Massachusetts Chapter Chairman Jerry Simmer of the same title that was published by the Boston Herald on November 17. Through a letter to the editor in the Boston Herald and comments […]
Op-Ed: PLA Rocked Plymouth Studio
In a November 18 op-ed in the Boston Herald titled, “PLA Rocked Plymouth Studio,” ABC Massachusetts Chapter Chairman Jerry Simmer highlights how the use of project labor agreements (PLAs), and the increased costs that come along with them, may have killed the development of a new Plymouth Rock Studio project in Plymouth, MA. As Mr. […]
Op-Ed: Give PA and U.S. Project Labor Agreement Policies the Heave-Ho
An op-ed in The York Dispatch draws parallels between the controversy over open competition legislation in PA and President Obama’s pro-PLA Executive Order 13502 (Think Pa.’s Discriminatory Labor Agreements Are Bad? Check Out Obama’s, 11/12). Here is an excerpt: Pennsylvania’s Department of General Services (DGS) has tried to require them [PLAs] on about $800 million […]
Op-Ed: If You Are Not Part Of A Union, You Need Not Apply For These Jobs
It is important to recognize those who are standing up for fair and open competition and against special interest handouts. One such individual is San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, who penned an on-point op-ed titled, “Quality Jobs For All San Diegans” in today’s San Diego Daily Transcript. Councilman DeMaino recognizes that a key component […]
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 […]
Jerry Gorski: White House Prevents Competition in Construction
Today’s Washington Examiner ran an outstanding Op-Ed questioning President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 and the White House’s support of discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) from Jerry Gorski, president of Gorski Engineering in Collegeville, Pa. and the 2009 National Chairman of Associated Builders and Contractors. President Obama and many others are using popular words like “choice” and […]