Required Reading on Multi-Employer Pension Plan Crisis

Here is some required reading about Taft-Hartley plans and the problems facing multi-employer pension plans (MEPPs) by Frances Denmark at the Institutional Investor.

Multiemployer Pension Plans Face Uncertain Future
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Taft-Hartley

Readers can keyword search “pensions” to review the numerous posts TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has written about the link between government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) and MEPPs.
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Poll: MA Public Opposes Key Mandate of PLAs

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 [...]

White House’s Middle Class Task Force 2010 Report Mentions Project Labor Agreements

The construction industry is still waiting for the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council to issue a final rule on regulations that promote project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects exceeding $25 million, as directed by President Obama’s Feb. 6, 2009 Executive Order 13502.
After months of intense opposition and no comment from the White House or action by federal regulators, [...]

PLAs Help Increase Construction Union Membership

The Daily Caller published an opinion piece today by Brett McMahon, vice president of Miller & Long, a concrete construction subcontractor, based in Bethesda, Md., and a member of the Associated Builders and Contractors (”State of the unions: Not good,” 2/26/10) that discusses how Big Labor is turning to their political chums to implement policies that [...]

Project Labor Agreements Kill Jobs and Waste Federal Resources

Two recent magazine columns have asserted that President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 is incongruous with the administration’s recent re-focus on policy solutions that will create jobs.  January government data indicates that the construction industry is suffering from 24.7 percent unemployment. But critics argue that anti-competitive PLAs increase construction costs and result in fewer construction projects built for the [...]

They Built Executive Order 13502 On False Premises

CNSnews published a story yesterday providing some insight into President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 from Brett McMahon, vice-president of ABC member Miller&Long Concrete Construction (”Construction Industry Opposes Obama Pro-Union Order,” 2/12/10).  
It’s a little misleading to say the entire construction industry opposes the order. Certainly union contractors and 14.5 percent of the U.S. [...]

Op-Ed Critical of Fed Gift to Big Labor in California

The Napa Valley Register ran an Op-Ed by Carole Bionda, vice-president of ABC member Nova Group in Napa, CA, that is critical of president Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 and other special interest giveaways to Big Labor that will kill jobs and increase wasteful federal spending (”Stopping the blows to construction industry,” 2/12/10).
Of course, [...]

More on Executive Order 13502 Anniversary

There is an article about the year anniversary of President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 over at the American Spectator Blog by Kevin Mooney (”Obama Order Locking Out Non-Union Construction Companies Marks One Year Anniversary,” 2/8/10). We briefly discussed this “Milestone Worth Not Celebrating” yesterday, and Mooney’s article argues that Executive Order [...]

A Milestone Worth Not Celebrating

Executive Order 13502 had a birthday over the weekend.
It’s hard to believe a full year has passed since President Obama signed the Feb. 6, 2009 pro-project labor agreement (PLA) directive that has reduced taxpayer accountability on federal construction projects.
Remember this?  
 
Click here to learn about government-mandatd PLAs and the status of Executive Order 13502, which encourages special interest kickbacks [...]

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 [...]

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