People vs. Unions: Struggling for Open Competition in California
FOX News’ Special Report with Bret Baier is the latest to cover the grassroots effort to bring quality and accountability to taxpayer-funded construction by preventing the use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in California. Here is the video from the July 21 edition of Special Report: The FOX News Liveshots blog also covered this […]
The Inspiration for Proposition G in Chula Vista: San Diego Union Greenmail Against the San Diego Padres, Independent Power Companies, High Rise Developers, and Gaylord Entertainment
On May 27, KNSD Channel 7/39 News in San Diego (an NBC affiliate) showed a three-minute story on Proposition G, the voter initiative on the June 8 ballot in the City of Chula Vista to prohibit the city from entering into contracts that require contractors to sign project labor agreements (PLAs). The story was also […]
Building Pennsylvania: PLA Forum and Lt. Governor Debate
The Keystone Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors is holding a forum to discuss wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) as part of their May 11 Lt. Governors debate. This event is part of their Save the Endangered Species campaign to educate the public on the true impact of PLAs. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com’s Ben Brubeck is […]
Baltimore Contractor: “We’d Have to Shut Our Doors”
Big Labor and their allies on the Baltimore City Council have introduced their legislation to require community partnership agreements (Wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements by another name) on construction projects with over $5 million in city support. Numerous contractors and their employees marched on City Hall yesterday to protest the introduction of this bill. […]
San Diego Open Competition Effort Gains Momentum In The Media
As we reported yesterday, the San Diego Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to draft a ballot initiative for voters to consider that would ban wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on county construction. This move comes in response to Big Labor’s increasingly blatant efforts to monopolize local work in San Diego County. We noted yesterday […]
Proposed Ingham County PLA Requirement in the News
The Ingham County, MI’s County Council is considering whether to institute a PLA requirement on a case-by-case basis on county-funded projects with direct labor costs greater than $100,000. The only problem is PLAs are wasteful, discriminatory and essentially lock out non-union workers – who make up over 75 percent of Michigan’s construction workforce. Well, people […]