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 [...]
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February 10, 2010 – 6:32 am
The Des Moines Register editorial board has offered their opinion on Governor Chet Culver’s Executive Order 22, which encourages state agencies to consider the use of project labor agreements (PLAs) on state construction.
While we don’t agree with the editorial board on every point in their piece, (especially their analysis of the Iowa Events Center PLA. [...]
January 26, 2010 – 2:42 pm
In a January 24 editorial, the Asbury Park Press reduced newly inaugurated Governor Chris Christie’s 88 point plan for New Jersey into 20 items the editorial board believes should be tackled immediately.
Item #17 caught our attention:
17. End the use of project labor agreements, which drive up the cost of public construction projects.
Here at TheTruthAboutPLAs, all [...]
January 11, 2010 – 9:44 am
Last week we covered the controversial decision by the Long Beach, California City Council to evaluate the use of a project labor agreement (PLA) on a $35 million airport terminal improvement project.
Over the weekend, the Long Beach Press-Telegram added another editorial to the growing number of newspapers skeptical of discriminatory and costly PLAs (”The Politics of [...]
January 4, 2010 – 11:39 am
Ohio’s Tribune Chronicle today published an editorial critical of project labor agreements (PLAs) and Executive Order 13502 (”Workers Should Be Angry About Union Preference,” 1/4). Add it to the long list of newspapers across the country opposed to discriminatory and costly government-mandated PLAs.
Most construction workers are not members of labor unions. They should be angry [...]
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Tagged A.J. Celebrezze, Cleveland, dck North America, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, GSA, Lafayette Building, Ohio, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Tribune Chronicle
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December 8, 2009 – 9:26 am
The debate over government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in New Jersey is in the news again. New Jersey’s Asbury Park Pressran a scathing editorial opposed to PLAs (Costly PLAs Must Be Ended, 11/16) that TheTruthAboutPLAs covered here.
The paper published an Op-Ed defending PLAs by Phillip E. Cooney, vice president of the New Jersey Carpenter Contractor Trust, a [...]
November 16, 2009 – 4:28 pm
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review also voiced it’s opposition to wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements in a November 16 editorial titled, “Blunting Big Labor.”
Blunting Big Labor
Monday, November 16, 2009
Kudos to Ken Holmes for stopping in its tracks taxpayer-funded political payback to organized labor.
Mr. Holmes is president of nonunion North Branch Construction in New Hampshire, where the [...]
November 16, 2009 – 10:52 am
In a November 16 editorial titled, “Costly PLAs Must Be Ended,” the Asbury Park Press weighs in on the project labor agreement (PLA) controversy. The paper calls on Governor-elect Chris Christie to fulfill his campaign pledge to end the use of costly and discriminatory PLAs on public construction in New Jersey.
Here is an excerpt:
Gov.-elect Chris [...]
November 13, 2009 – 2:41 pm
After John Stossel, the investigative journalist famous from his work on ABC’s 20/20, appeared yesterday on FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto to talk about President Obama’s push to use union labor for big federal construction projects via Executive Order 13502 — and the related controversy surrounding the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) decision to cancel its [...]
November 9, 2009 – 9:48 am
An editorial from WGAL Channel 8’s president and general manager, Paul Quinn, supports PA Rep. John C. Bear’s (97th District in Lancaster County) legislation (H.B. 2010) prohibiting government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in PA.
While we do not have anything against unions, we think it is unfair to eliminate the vast majority of Pennsylvania construction companies from bidding [...]
