U.S. Labor Secretary’s Support of Anti-Competitive Project Labor Agreements Questioned at Congressional Hearing

At a Feb. 2 House Education and Labor Committee hearing, U.S. Representative Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) questioned U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis on President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 for federal construction contracts and asked why the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) mandated a PLA on a Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H. 
After a protest was [...]

ABC Member Tells Congress The Truth About Project Labor Agreements

Associated Builders and Contractors’ (ABC) member Stephen Worth, president and CEO of Worth and Company, Inc., Pipersville, Pa., yesterday testified at a forum in the U.S. House of Representatives that was examining the preferential treatment Big Labor is receiving by the Obama administration and its allies on Capitol Hill.
Worth’s testimony focused on Executive Order 13502 and federal [...]

U.S. House Education and Labor Committee Senior Republican Member: Project Labor Agreements Offer Preview of Employee Free Choice Act

Rep. John Kline, senior Republican member of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, issued a press release warning Americans that the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire and Executive Order 13502 is the “evil twin” of the Employee Free Forced Choice [...]

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