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 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 13, 2009 – 11:38 am
Here’s a Friday recap of the alphabet soup of media coverage of the recent news surrounding the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) decision to cancel its solicitation for bids to construct a new Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H. under a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA).
The DOL’s Job Corps Center PLA was believed to be the [...]
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Tagged Associated Press, DOL, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Manchester, New Hampshire, New York Times, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Senator Gregg, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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November 12, 2009 – 3:42 pm
Today John Stossel is going to be on Your World with Neil Cavuto at 4:20 PM EST on Fox News to talk about President Obama’s push to use union labor for big federal projects.
Mr. Stossel may shed more light on the recent controversy surrounding the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) decision to cancel its solicitation for bids to [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Fox News, John Stossel, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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November 12, 2009 – 7:47 am
Today the Washington Times ran an excellent story summarizing the controversy surrounding the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) decision to cancel its solicitation for bids to construct a new Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H. under a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) (Obama’s Union Drive Stumbles in N.H., 11/12).
The cancellation came in response to a protest filed [...]
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Washington Times
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November 11, 2009 – 11:57 am
As reported earlier, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) cancelled its solicitation for bids to construct a new Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H. under a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA). The cancellation came in response to a protest filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) by ABC member North Branch Construction of Concord, N.H., with ABC [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged DOL, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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November 10, 2009 – 5:36 am
ICYMI, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) cancelled its solicitation for bids to construct a new Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H. under a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA). The cancellation came in response to a protest filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) by ABC member North Branch Construction of Concord, N.H., with ABC support [...]
November 6, 2009 – 3:17 pm
We have breaking news about the controversial U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Job Corps Center that has been covered numerous times here at TheTruthAboutPLAs.com.
Below is a news release from ABC National.
New Release
ABC Defeats Unlawful and Discriminatory New Hampshire Construction Contract
Move Comes in Response to ABC Member Protest
Washington, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today announced that the [...]
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Tagged DOL, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, GAO, Legal Challenge, Manchester, New Hampshire, News Release, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements
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November 5, 2009 – 4:19 pm
In an op-ed titled, “Favoring Unions Hurts Taxpayers,” in the November 5 edition of the Tampa Bay Tribune, ABC Gulf Coast Chapter President Steve Cona, Jr. notes that President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 could keep 97 percent of Florida’s private construction workforce from building projects paid for with their own tax dollars. Executive Order 13502 [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged abc, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Florida, Manchester, New Hampshire, Op-Ed, PLAs Cut Competition, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Tampa Tribune
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October 31, 2009 – 12:07 pm
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ran an excellent Q & A interview with Ken Holmes, President of ABC member company North Branch Construction of Concord, New Hampshire (”Sidelined by Unions’ Payback,” 10/31).
Holmes filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office about the discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the new U.S. Department of Labor [...]
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Tagged DOL, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Manchester, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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