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Comment on Required Reading on Multi-Employer Pension Plan Crisis by Industrial Coatings

Industrial Coatings — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:22:34 +0000

I agree fully with the article. A bailout isn’t the solution. Like stated in article – it will only delay the inevitable.

Comment on Required Reading on Multi-Employer Pension Plan Crisis by BenBrubeck

BenBrubeck — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:14:50 +0000

This is a great point from F. Denmark about how Big Labor hates it when you call MEPPs “union” plans:

“Just don’t call them union plans, or risk rankling labor executives, who are quick to explain that these collectively bargained plans are managed by boards of trustees staffed with equal numbers of union and employer representatives. But keep in mind that a typical ten-member Taft-Hartley pension fund board consists of five trustees who are members of the same union and five trustees who likely represent competing employers in the same industry.”

Comment on Forbes.com on Project Labor Agreements: Obama’s Gift for Labor by Accused Al Qaeda Terrorist & Murderer Was Member of Laborers Union | RedState

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:48:50 +0000

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Twitted by PlanetSantaBarb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:38:26 +0000

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:06:02 +0000

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Comment on Press-Enterprise: Shameful vote by Yohan

Yohan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:33 +0000

How much did the Union give to Mary Figueroa, Jose Medina and Mark Takano for thier campaigns? Is this public record? How can I find out? Something here is fishy.

Comment on Understanding PLAs in Right to Work States by Joe Pubowobitz

Joe Pubowobitz — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:44:27 +0000

I’ve never had a problem with paying an employee a fair wage or even some of the benefits. The problem with some of the benefits is that the unions make more off of the top the benefit than the companies providing the health insurance, for example.Why? Because They Can. Other problems include: 1. The union telling employers who they can hire and not hire. 2. Sending workers to the job site an hour late and still expecting employers to pay a full 8 hours wage and benefits. 3. The unions sending “stewards” to the job site to interfere with, slow down, and–in some instances–stop work progress because they think some employee is operating the wrong machine. 4. Union employees tearing up equipment costing hundreds of thousands of $ and then just walking away with absolutely no responsibility for their neglect and belligerence. 5. Being required to get permission from some union local in order to be “allowed” to do business with the customer who hires you–even though you are paying your workers union wages. Is this a free country or what? 6. Locals of the same union having different rules to abide by–in other words:absolutely no continuity among locals. 7. If a contractor is paying employees union scale, what right, if any, do unions have to tell that contractor how to run his business? Are these above problems what causes right to work states, and, if so, why don’t right to work laws stop this CRAP ? These obstacles, and other government imposed rules, and regulations are bringing our country down at a time when we need to be all about removing obstacles to economic growth. I don’t get it.

Comment on White House’s Middle Class Task Force 2010 Report Mentions Project Labor Agreements by Snow Increases Jobless Rate? - Top News, Music, and Sports - The Blog Conglomerate

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:00:14 +0000

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Comment on Update on Lake Champlain Bridge Project Labor Agreement Controversy by Scott

Scott — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:13:45 +0000

Good work Ben and ABC NY and VT. Keep pounding the trust and benefits drum. The media in CA was shocked that nonunion companies would be forced to make double payments into their own benefit plans and the union plans, which ends up hurting nonunion employees. Especially since the union multi-employer pension plans are going broke. Also if there is a local taxpayer group or association get them invoved immediately.

Comment on Status Update on Executive Order 13502 and Federal Project Labor Agreements by Obama’s Giveaway to Progressives/Labor Unions: Plan to Seek Use of U.S. Contracts as a Wage Lever « Romanticpoet's Weblog

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:06:34 +0000

[...] Still who can blame the GSA? Government-mandated PLAs were virtually nonexistent during the last administration when a presidential order prohibited wasteful PLAs on such projects. And there have yet to be any government mandated-PLAs executed under Mr. Obama’s watch because the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council has yet to finalize his order. [...]