Op-Ed: Favoring Unions Hurts Taxpayers

November 5, 2009 – 4:19 pm

In an op-ed titled, “Favoring Unions Hurts Taxpayers,” in the November 5 edition of the Tampa Bay Tribune, ABC Gulf Coast Chapter President Steve Cona, Jr. notes that President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 could keep 97 percent of Florida’s private construction workforce from building projects paid for with their own tax dollars.  Executive Order 13502 [...]

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Save The Endangered Species!

October 20, 2009 – 3:54 pm

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 Endangered Species” [...]

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Project Labor Agreement Wrong For Aurora

October 20, 2009 – 8:27 am

In a letter to the editor published in the Aurora Sentinel on October 11, Bob Roth of Aurora, CO outlines the negative impact of wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs).
Letter: Project Labor Agreement Wrong for Aurora
By BOB ROTH
A disturbing thing is happening right under our noses, and I am willing to bet that most [...]

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Federal Times “This Week” News Brief: Project Labor Pacts Boost Costs, Study Finds

September 30, 2009 – 7:15 am

Federal Times, the premier news source for federal government managers, covered the September 23 release of the Beacon Hill Institute’s (BHI) study, “Project Labor Agreements on Federal Construction Projects: A Costly Solution in Search of a Problem,” in their September 28 “This Week” news briefs.  The BHI study found that PLAs significantly increase construction costs on [...]

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