In a July 27 letter to the editor written by Mary Alford of Bristol, CT and published by the Bristol Press, Ms. Alford describes her experience testifying against Big Labor and their effort to persuade local officials to require wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on local school construction projects.
Here is an excerpt from Ms. Alford’s letter [...]
The Waterbury Republican American reported on 2/24/10 that two CT schools recently constructed under project labor agreements (PLAs) have suffered cost overruns, construction defects and missed construction deadlines.
CONSTRUCTION CONTRAST: Item: The $20.5 million Rotella Interdistrict Magnet School was finished late and came in 10 percent over budget. Today, it’s leaky, the climate-control system is faulty, the [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged Connecticut, Editorial, PLA victim, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Republican American, School Construction, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Waterbury
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October 19, 2009 – 4:00 pm
An October 19 article in the New Haven Independent titled, “Protesters: Hire More Black Workers,” notes recent protests in the New Haven, CT area over the discriminatory nature of project labor agreements (PLAs).
Here’s an excerpt:
[Alan] Felder said that the Project Labor Agreement (PLA) signed by all unions working on city school construction allows contractors to [...]
While much of this week’s attention focued on Obama administration attempts to encourage federal department and agency heads to utilize wasteful and discriminatory union-only project labor agreements, there have been PLA developments at the state and local levels that warrent attention as well.
In Trumbull, CT subcontractors for the Trumbull High School renovation/reconstruction project have been selected. The local construction unions’ are upset [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged California, Connecticut, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, Greenmail, Hospital Construction, Legal Challenge, OMB Memo, PLAs, Project Labor Agreements, San Diego, SavePropS.com, School Construction, SDUSD
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During the past 10 years, many of California’s daily newspapers (including the Sacramento Bee, Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, Orange County Register and San Diego Union-Tribune) have published editorials denouncing Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) proposed at local governments for public works projects. This is no surprise: anyone who looks objectively at how PLAs are promoted [...]
By Kevin Dayton
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, California, Connecticut, Editorial, Massachusetts, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, San Diego, SDUSD, Study
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Today the Hartford Courant ran an Op-Ed by ABC Connecticut Chapter President Lelah Campo about the need for Connecticut to ban union-only PLAs on projects that receive funding, assistance, grants and other financial support from Connecticut.
YOUR VIEW: LELAH CAMPO
Open Government Projects to Nonunion Labor
Hartford Courant, May 5, 2009
With Gov. M. Jodi Rell and state legislators [...]
According to this 5/3 New Haven Register article, Connecticut International Union of Operating Engineers Local 478 President Benedict Cozzi is upset that local union workers do not have a monopoly on the labor needed to build foundations for the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, also known as the Q Bridge, in New Haven, CT.
Merit shop contractors and subcontractors are building the Q [...]
April 27, 2009 – 10:11 am
If you read the last post, you have learned how PLAs eliminate merit shop contractors.
Fact: PLAs eliminate merit shop contractors and their employees from working on PLA construction projects.
So how does this fact impact construction owners and taxpayers?
Academic studies overwhelmingly show that union-only PLAs increase construction costs between 10 percent and 20 percent when compared to [...]
