September 8, 2010 – 2:04 pm
In a breakdown of President Obama’s new $50 billion infrastructure construction proposal, commentator Michelle Malkin tells her readers something that we’ve been saying for quite some time: that all workers are not created equal to President Obama.
In February 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13502, which encourages agencies to require the use of wasteful and [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Blogosphere, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Massachusetts, Open Competition, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, The Politics of PLAs
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August 16, 2010 – 3:50 pm
Allegheny County Executive and gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato (D) criticized the Community College of Allegheny County’s (CCAC) requirement that all bidders for the upcoming construction of a $21 million science building agree to sign a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) with Big Labor as a condition of performing work on this project.
Here’s an excerpt [...]
August 12, 2010 – 1:50 pm
There has been a flurry of activity surrounding the fight for fair and open competition in the Pittsburgh area over the last 72 hours. The Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) was scheduled to receive bids for the $21 million construction of a new 65,000 sq. ft. science center on August 10. Unfortunately, [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC Western Pennsylvania, Editorial, Open Competition, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PLAs, Rep. John Bear, School Construction, State Legislation, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, University Construction
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The Middletown, NY School Board rejected a proposal to require contractors to sign a wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreement (PLA) in order to work on the upcoming construction of a new elementary school.
Here is the coverage from the July 2 edition of the Middletown Times Herald-Record (“School Board Vote Rejects Project Labor Agreement,” 7/2/10):
School [...]
February 23, 2010 – 5:01 pm
The County of San Diego Board of Supervisors, representing the sixth most populous county in the country, voted 5-0 today to ban project labor agreements (PLAs) on County construction projects.
On Mar. 2, 2010, the Supervisors will adopt the ordinance (second reading), adding section 428 to the County Administrative Code prohibiting the County from requiring PLAs on [...]
January 29, 2010 – 8:24 am
Here at TheTruthAboutPLAs, we want to congratulate the Orange County, California’s Board of Supervisors and the taxpayers they represent!
PublicCEO.com, a daily web newsletter for public executive and administrative officials in California, has given the Local Government “Ordinance of the Year” award to the Orange County Board of Supervisors for the passage of [...]
November 5, 2009 – 9:24 am
Today’s Washington Examiner ran an outstanding Op-Ed questioning President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 and the White House’s support of discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) from Jerry Gorski, president of Gorski Engineering in Collegeville, Pa. and the 2009 National Chairman of Associated Builders and Contractors.
President Obama and many others are using popular words like “choice” and “competition” [...]
November 4, 2009 – 8:47 am
It’s official. The nation’s fifth largest and perhaps most famous county has said NO to discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs).
Yesterday, the Orange County (CA) Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance prohibiting government-mandated PLAs on county-funded construction projects.
The ordinance was approved 5-0 last week, but had to be heard a second time yesterday before it [...]
October 28, 2009 – 8:46 am
Yesterday, the Orange County (CA) Board of Supervisors held a hearing and 5-0 approved an ordinance prohibiting government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on county-funded construction projects.
The ordinance would prohibit the requirement of PLAs unless mandated by California and/or federal law and contractors are free to voluntarily enter into PLAs.
Accoding to the Los Angeles Times, ordinance sponsor Supervisor John [...]
August 24, 2009 – 11:25 am
The Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS) has delayed construction of the State Correctional Institution at Benner Township because of “unacceptably high bids,” according to state officials. In fact, Benner Township state Senator Jake Corman told local media that “the bids were tens of millions of dollars over the state’s estimated $200 million cost for the [...]
