Discriminatory PLAs Must End: Taxpayers Deserve Better
Pennsylvania’s York Dispatch ran an excellent Op-Ed from PA Rep. Stan Saylor (94th District in York County) and Rep. John C. Bear (97th District in Lancaster County) opposing the Rendell administration’s corrupt attempt to reward one of its largest political contributors — Big Labor — with lucrative state construction contracts via project labor agreements (PLAs) (“Discriminatory PLAs must end; […]
Hoover: Live Union or Die
Kent Hoover, Washington bureau chief for Bizjournals, is the latest to cover 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 in his post titled, “Live Union or Die” on Portfolio.com. Here’s an excerpt: North Branch Construction, a nonunion contractor in Concord, […]
Boston Globe Op-Ed: Obama Kowtows to Labor Unions with Project Labor Agreements
An Op-Ed critical of President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 by David G. Tuerck, chairman and professor of economics and executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) at Suffolk University, ran in today’s Boston Globe (“Obama Kowtows to Labor Unions,” 10/7). Professor Tuerck, author of a new BHI study called “Project Labor Agreements […]
Philadelphia National Association of Minority Contractors Blasts Project Labor Agreements
John Macklin, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors and vice president of the association’s northeast region, wrote an excellent Op-Ed in opposition to a project labor agreement (PLA) on the $400 million Graterford Prison expansion project. It ran in the print edition of the Philadelphia Daily News as well as the […]
ABC Keystone Chapter Criticizes PLAs on “The Box” Radio Program
ABC Keystone chapter president Jack Zimmer and government affairs director Steve Swarney slammed PLAs on “The Box” radio program hosted by Matt Brouillette. Mr. Brouillette is president and CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, which is “dedicated to advancing state-level public policies based on our nation’s founding principles of limited government, economic freedom and personal responsibility.” Mr. […]
Executive Order 13502 “Egregious” and “Simply Unfair”
In an outstanding piece titled, “Forced Union Payments on Tax Paid Projects,” Mike Thompson of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy calls President Obama’s Executive Order 13502, which encourages federal agencies and departments to utilize wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal projects over $25 million, “egregious” and “simply unfair.” Here are […]
ABC Member on PLAs and EFCA: Big Labor is Cashing in at Workers’ Expense
ABC members continue to stand up against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and project labor agreements (PLAs). Brett McMahon of Miller & Long, a concrete subcontractor, writes in Human Events about how workers and taxpayers will pay the price for policies that only benefit Big Labor (“Big Labor Is Cashing in at Workers’ Expense,” 9/14): President Obama’s recent […]
The Truth About Taxpayer Funded State University “Labor Institutes”
Most of the academic “studies” published in support of Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) are produced by state university “labor institutes” with close connections to labor unions and convenient funding from taxpayers. One of the most notorious is the University of California Labor Institute, established in 2000 at the behest of the California Labor Federation. This […]
Kevin Dayton: Project Labor Agreement is Costly Sellout to Union
The August 5 edition of the Contra Costa Times features an outstanding op-ed written by www.truthaboutPLAs.com blogger Kevin Dayton blasting the three members of the Brentwood City Council who voted to require a wasteful and discriminatory PLA on the construction of their new Civic Center. Here is an excerpt: The Brentwood City Council’s new PLA effectively cuts […]
The Perils of Slavish Devotion to Organized Labor
In a 7/19 commentary, part of a Pittsburgh Tribune series on how to fix Pennsylvania’s economy, Jake Haulk from the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy and Matthew J. Brouillette from the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives don’t hold back in outlining the negative impact of big labor’s “political stranglehold on legislation in Pennsylvania despite representing less than two […]