Small Business Owner Addresses PLAs and Over Regulation on FOX Business
Small business owner Gus Perea of Collegeville, PA discusses the impact burdensome regulations and red tape have on small businesses across this country on the April 23 edition of America’s Nightly Scoreboard on FOX Business. As the catalyst for economic recovery and job creation in this country, these over regulation is something Gus and others […]
PLA Final Rule “Not Just Highly Controversial, It’s Wrong”
On the April 18 edition of “Cavuto on Business” on FOX Business, Charles Payne moderated a panel discussion on Executive Order 13502 and the Obama administration’s effort to funnel federal construction projects to its Big Labor allies. This is one panel that understands the true nature of wasteful and discrimination project labor agreements: political payback. […]
ABC Member Breaks Down Federal PLA Rule on CNBC
Brett McMahon, vice president of Miller & Long, a concrete construction subcontractor, based in Bethesda, Md., and a member of the Associated Builders and Contractors appeared on the April 14 edition of Power Lunch on CNBC. Here’s the video:
ABC Member Shares Small Business Concerns on Fox Business Channel
On 1/26 Brett McMahon, vice president of ABC member Miller & Long Concrete Construction, appeared on Fox Business Channel’s Diamond District program to share his concerns about the health of the construction industry’s small business owners in light of the 22.7 percent construction unemployment rate and meager solutions offered by the White House and Congress […]
Watch the December 10 Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee Hearing on PLAs
Video from the Thursday, December 10 Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee hearing on the wasteful and discriminatory impact of project labor agreements (PLAs) and Representative John Bear’s H.B. 2010, “The Open Contracting Act,” that would prohibit PLAs on state and state-funded construction projects is now available. Pennsylvania lawmakers, nonunion contractors, employees and other business groups […]
PA Lawmakers and Union Contractor Association Express Opposition to Project Labor Agreements
Yesterday the Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee held a hearing on project labor agreements (PLAs) and legislation (House Bill 2010, The Open Contracting Act) introduced by Reps. Stan Saylor (R-York) and John Bear (R-Lancaster) that would prohibit government-mandated PLAs on PA and PA-funded construction projects. PA lawmakers, nonunion contractors, employees and other business groups and construction associations […]
Save The Endangered Species!
The fight to save Pennsylvania’s most endangered species is on! Big Labor is trying to drive Pennsylvania’s nonunion construction workforce into extinction. But the merit shop construction industry and 80 percent of Pennsylvania’s private construction workforce locked out of public construction work by discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) are fighting back! The “Save the […]
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.
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 […]
Pennsylvania Represenative John Bear Speaks Out Against PLAs on Comcast Local Edition
PA Representative John Bear calls project labor agreements (PLAs) “discrimination, pure and simple” and said he is “surprised we’re even talking about this [PLAs]” while PA is in the middle of a historic budget crisis during a recent episode of Comcast Local Edition. Rep. Bear, a leading voice against government waste, recognizes that taxpayers ALWAYS […]