Oregon Editorial Exposes Gov. Kotek’s Project Labor Agreement Gift to Unions
The Oregonian editorial board had some choice words about Oregon Governor Tina Kotek’s (D) gift to construction trades unions in the form of a new executive order requiring controversial project labor agreements that are sure to inflate the cost of state and state-assisted construction projects funded by taxpayers (“Editorial: Merry Christmas, Labor Unions! Love, Gov. […]
Minority Contractors Association in Portland, Oregon to Host PLA Forum
The National Association of Minority Contractors – Oregon is hosting a public forum on project labor agreements today (January 25, 2011) at the Kaiser Town Hall Bldg on N. Interstate (3704 N. Interstate) from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time. In a January 19 opinion piece in the Portland-based The Skanner newspaper entitled Can the Unions […]
Federal GSA Project in Portland Raises Project Labor Agreement Concerns
Oregon’s Daily Journal of Commerce story about the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland mentions how the GSA is evaluating project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects funded by federal stimulus money (“Green Wyatt Goes to Howard S. Wright,” 12/18). The project, paid for with federal stimulus money, has attracted attention for […]