December 15, 2009 – 5:14 am
From 2001 until Feb. 6, 2009 Executive Order 13202 protected at least $147.1 billion worth of federal construction projects from discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs).
In addition, the order prohibited PLAs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of federally-assisted construction projects across the country. Federally-assisted projects are local, state or private construction projects [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, OMB, OMB Memo, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Section 7, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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October 7, 2009 – 1:01 pm
Kent Hoover, Washington bureau chief for Bizjournals, is the latest to cover the government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the U.S. Department of Labor’s new $35 million Job Corps center in Manchester, New Hampshire in his post titled, “Live Union or Die” on Portfolio.com.
Here’s an excerpt:
North Branch Construction, a nonunion contractor in Concord, New Hampshire, [...]
September 30, 2009 – 7:15 am
Federal Times, the premier news source for federal government managers, covered the September 23 release of the Beacon Hill Institute’s (BHI) study, “Project Labor Agreements on Federal Construction Projects: A Costly Solution in Search of a Problem,” in their September 28 “This Week” news briefs. The BHI study found that PLAs significantly increase construction costs on [...]
September 23, 2009 – 10:15 am
The FAR Council’s comment period on proposed rules that would implement President Obama’s Feb. 6 Executive Order 13502 relating to federal PLAs closes today at midnight.
The comment period, which had expired Aug. 13, was reopened with a new deadline of Sept. 23, according to a notice published in the Aug. 24 Federal Register (74 Fed. Reg. 42,639).
TheTruthaboutPLAs.com previously [...]
September 21, 2009 – 6:10 am
In a September 9 entry on the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) blog openmarkets.org, CEI Editorial Director Ivan Osorio notes the negative impact of PLAs on job creation, especially for local residents and minority contractors. The post also points out that this problem is likely to become more widespread thanks to President Obama’s Executive Order 13502, which [...]
September 17, 2009 – 5:09 pm
In an outstanding piece titled, “Forced Union Payments on Tax Paid Projects,” Mike Thompson of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy calls President Obama’s Executive Order 13502, which encourages federal agencies and departments to utilize wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal projects over $25 million, “egregious” and “simply unfair.”
Here are the [...]
September 17, 2009 – 1:17 pm
Brett McMahon, VP of ABC member Miller & Long Concrete Construction, appeared on the September 17 edition of the Ed Morrissey Show to discuss discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) and President Obama’s Executive Order 13502.
Here is an excerpt from the Ed Morrissey Show’s website:
In the second half, we welcome again Brett McMahon, representative of the [...]
September 15, 2009 – 11:53 am
It is no secret that U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis supports the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and Project Labor Agreements. Yesterday she addressed the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh, PA and reaffirmed her support of these special interest policies that will kill jobs and exclusively benefit Big Labor and harm American taxpayers, workers and [...]
September 15, 2009 – 6:00 am
In a September 14th interview with CBN News, Brett McMahon of ABC member Miller & Long Concrete Construction calls Executive Order 13502 a “solution in search of a problem” and notes that project labor agreements show ”unions are willing to sacrifice employment in general for their own individual gain.”
Here at TheTruthAboutPLAs, we absolutely agree. Check out [...]
September 1, 2009 – 8:14 am
RedState.com is the latest media outlet to expose Executive Order 13502, which encourages the use of project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction over $25 million. It is a handout to Big Labor at the expense of American taxpayers. In a September 1 post, RedState.com’s Erick Erickson calls the executive order “appalling and “an astonishing reach.” We [...]
