San Diego KCBQ AM 1170’s Rick Amato talks project labor agreements (PLAs) with Scott Crosby, president of Associated Builders and Contractor’s San Diego Chapter on the March 4 edition of the Rick Amato Show.
It’s great radio and they really do an outstanding job of touching on why PLAs are a bad deal for San Diego.
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A March 1 San Diego Daily Transcript Op-Ed by Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction’s (CFEC) Eric Christen slams wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) for their negative impact on job growth.
Here are the highlights (Links added):
Unemployment stands at 12.4 percent. The state is facing un-ending multi-billion dollar deficits. The city of Vallejo has [...]
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February 24, 2010 – 5:11 pm
Several polls taken in San Diego County over the past year consistently indicate that more than 90 percent of voters agree with the very basic statement that taxpayers get the best quality construction for the best price when contracts are bid under fair and open competition, without requirements that contractors must sign special agreements with [...]
February 23, 2010 – 5:01 pm
The County of San Diego Board of Supervisors, representing the sixth most populous county in the country, voted 5-0 today to ban project labor agreements (PLAs) on County construction projects.
On Mar. 2, 2010, the Supervisors will adopt the ordinance (second reading), adding section 428 to the County Administrative Code prohibiting the County from requiring PLAs on [...]
February 18, 2010 – 6:30 am
The California State Senate’s Local Government Committee issued a 212-page report about design-build contracting on February 16 that includes comments from Associated Builders and Contractors of California criticizing language in design-build authorization laws that encourages project labor agreements (PLAs). Local governments as well as Governor Schwarzenegger are fans of the alternative construction delivery method of [...]
February 11, 2010 – 5:07 pm
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 that [...]
February 10, 2010 – 6:53 pm
There is a growing local movement in California to protect taxpayers and ensure the best quality construction at the best price by prohibiting project labor agreements (PLAs).
On Tuesday, February 9, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, representing the sixth most populous county in the country, voted 5-0 to authorize supervisor Bill Horn to draft a [...]
February 5, 2010 – 10:03 pm
Remember the San Diego Unified School District’s (SDUSD) corrupt move to require project labor agreements (PLAs) on all construction projects funded by the voter-approved $2.1 billion proposition S? Big Labor said the PLAs would help control costs and guarantee a local workforce.
As predicted, the PLA has already failed to deliver on Big Labor’s promises:
WINNING BID IS [...]
February 2, 2010 – 11:28 am
In one of the most outstanding and complete breakdowns of the project labor agreement (PLA) issue in the blogosphere, BigGovernment.com contributor “Liberty Chick” outlines the sad history of PLAs nationwide and specifically in California in a post titled, “California’s Class Warfare: PLAs Pit Union and Nonunion Workers Against Each Other.”
This post – complete with videos [...]
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Tagged ABC California, BigGovernment.com, Blogosphere, California, California Environmental Quality Act, Greenmail, Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Increase Costs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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February 1, 2010 – 5:26 pm
TruthAboutPLAs.com friend and BigGovernment.com contributor Bret Jacobson wrote a great piece exposing Big Labor tactics in California in a January 29 BigGovernment.com post titled, “Unions’ Unfair PLAy in California.”
Some elected leaders in California are coming up on a tough decision: do they do what’s right for taxpayers, or take from the poor and give [...]
