Poll: MA Public Opposes Key Mandate of PLAs

March 4, 2010 – 4:40 pm

According to a press release by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University, in Boston Mass., a new poll of Massachusetts voters indicates the public opposes a key provision of typical PLAs.
A new survey conducted by the Suffolk University Political Research Center for the Beacon Hill Institute shows that 69% of Massachusetts voters oppose a requirement [...]

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Cato Journal: Why Project Labor Agreements Are Not in the Public Interest

February 4, 2010 – 3:50 am

A compelling article critical of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) by David G. Tuerck, executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research, appears in the current issue of the Cato Journal (Volume 30 Number 1, Winter 2010, “Are Unions Good for America?”).
“Why Project Labor Agreements Are Not in the Public Interest” surveys [...]

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Boston Globe Op-Ed: Obama Kowtows to Labor Unions with Project Labor Agreements

October 7, 2009 – 7:35 am

An Op-Ed critical of President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 by David G. Tuerck, chairman and professor of economics and executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute  (BHI) at Suffolk University, ran in today’s Boston Globe (”Obama Kowtows to Labor Unions,” 10/7). 
Professor Tuerck, author of a new BHI study called ”Project Labor Agreements on [...]

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Boston Herald Editorial Calls Project Labor Agreements Political Payback to Big Labor

September 28, 2009 – 8:56 am

Sunday the Boston Herald editorial board wrote a piece summarizing the latest study on costly and anti-competitive project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects from the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) and agreed with one of the BHI’s key conclusions about PLAs (”Political Payback,” 9/27).
The institute’s latest report on PLAs casts doubt on the only rationale for the agreements – [...]

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Boston Herald Opposes Project Labor Agreements

June 8, 2009 – 6:00 am

Our post about the San Diego Union-Tribune’s anti-PLA editorial reminded me of an anti-PLA editorial published by the Boston Herald (“Stimulus for some,” 4/8/09) a few weeks prior to the launch of TheTruthAboutPLAs.com.  The Herald’s excellent editorial came on the heels of an AP story about Mass. considering PLAs on projects funded by the federal stimulus [...]

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