Today the FOX News Channel’s Fox & Friends program sat down with Brett McMahon, VP of ABC member Miller & Long Concrete Construction, to discuss discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) and President Obama’s Executive Order 13502.
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this interview is a joke. PLA dont drive up the cost. this guy would like the publice to believe that he is put at a dissatvantage because he is not union. Have a couple of thing to say. the man has been giving it to the worker for the last 8 years with the bush dictatorship, and know the shoe is on the other foot you are pissing and moning about how its unfair. deal with it. second, the open shop dont have the skilled trained workforce to do these huge project that requier skilled labor. who do you want driving the pile for the new superstucture bridge. the guy you picked up off the steet in front od wal mart or home depot that all he knows is how to pick fruit or do you want a skilled tradesman that 90% chance he or she went through an apprenticeship for there craft. wages? you have to pay them the same. it is all public works and weather you are union or not the wage is the same. so what do you think the best value is for the same money, skilled worker or wal Mart. this guy dont want his workers joining the union, he dont want to let them see what working united as one is all about, he is afraid of loosing his good hands to better themselves. workers deserves and have the rifght to have the best they can, just as business, is that called capitalism? why do poeple come down on workers when they try an capitalize off there labor? we dont come down on business when they try. if you work in the trades as i do the best when it come to everthing from skilled workers, apprenticeship, health care, pension, working condition. you get that with the union trades. as for fox and all you anti union morons out there, who do yo think brought you the 8 hr day, overtime, vacation, state worker rights, labor day and so on. if is wasnt for workers standing togeter for the last 100 yrs all you idiots would still be working for food. pull your head out of your ass
PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS ARE ABOUT, SAFETY, HONESTY,JUSTICE AND PROFESSIONALISM FOR ALL ,AT UNION MADE CONSTRUCTION JOBSITES, AND PLACE OF WORK
TO SAY THAT I DON’T SUPPORT
( PLAs ) MEANS THAT I WILL STEP ON THE HANDS THAT BUILD AMERICA.
The last two comments are obviously from union workers who have been fed the same hogwash for years. They have no knowledge of the training we do at ABC and how our forces have become the most talented, competitive people in the nation. They finally have a president who was bought of by big labor to use as a crutch for their aggenda.
I have been in unions since 1979 so I have something to say that everyone should listen to. Unions are a joke! I left IBEW in 2004 and have been working non-union since. I am a hard working american who continues to remain employeed due to my experience and continued education. I work with other qualified co-workers doing a great job, making good wages and have excellent benefits. Most people in unions are sub-par workers. They know that no matter how bad of a worker they are, they will always have work. The Unions like these type of workers because they can control them and manipulate their thinking, thus continually making money off of their labor.
The Bicentennial Year was my first election. That year I had to join the Retail Clerks Union (now called something else) for my job as supermarket cashier. Every day I’d walk or hitchike home five miles only to find my mailbox filled with junk mail from the Union: “What We’re Doing With Your Dues To Elect Jimmy Carter”. I was a big President Ford man and I hated that my money was being used like that.
Now an Andy Stern crony is going to be appointed to the NLRB. What are PLAs but the “sweetheart deals to special interests” Obama campaigned against?
Aren’t these PLA’s illegal? How can one group be favored over others? Doesn’t this violate RICO by monopliazing business? With our tax monies no less? IF the unions are so “great”, why don’t they bid on a job like everyone else has to? Oh that’s right, because then the fat cat union bosses mihgt have to actually get off their duffs and try working for a living. Unions were once a proud concept that helped define today’s working environment. Now they are no more than a business on to themselves with no product to prodice other than securing their own existence. Workplace Federal laws long ago replaced the need for unions to “protect” their members, now they are a woeful joke, even amongst the members who can actually think for themselves.
Actually, the third poster (from New York’s Corrado Concrete Construction – http://www.luckbros.com) “forces” labor strife on Chula Vista. The primary purpose of the PLA is to have no picket lines in front of Chula Vista’s future building.
New York City?!? Get a grip.
everyone keeps hawking all these studies that show plas drive up costs but I have never seen one. Where are these studies published.
http://www.abc.org/plastudies
Start with the Beacon Hill Studies from MA, CT and NY. The other one I would read is the study for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
PLA is nothing more than a money laundering scheme created by our politions to repay big labor for their campaign contributions. As stated earlier the wages PW on the project are the same. It is the productivity that is the difference. The unions would surely bankrupt any non-union company who signs this agreement, thru low production standards.