February 4, 2010 – 3:50 am
A compelling article critical of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) by David G. Tuerck, executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research, appears in the current issue of the Cato Journal (Volume 30 Number 1, Winter 2010, “Are Unions Good for America?”).
“Why Project Labor Agreements Are Not in the Public Interest” surveys [...]
January 25, 2010 – 5:20 pm
Wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) continue to garner public attention in Indiana, as Wishard Health Services prepares to go forward with a PLA on approximately $750 million in hospital renovations at their Marion County facility.
The latest PLA-related story titled, “An Ailing Process,” comes courtesy of the January 24 Indianapolis Star.
Here are the highlights:
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November 2, 2009 – 5:51 am
A TruthAboutPLAs.com reader sent us a June 2009 study conducted by property and construction consulting firm Rider Levett Bucknall prepared for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Construction and Facilities Management. The VA hired this firm to evaluate the cost impact of project labor agreements (PLAs) in various markets where the VA [...]
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Tagged Denver, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Hospital Construction, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, San Francisco, Veterans Administration
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October 7, 2009 – 7:35 am
An Op-Ed critical of President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 by David G. Tuerck, chairman and professor of economics and executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) at Suffolk University, ran in today’s Boston Globe (”Obama Kowtows to Labor Unions,” 10/7).
Professor Tuerck, author of a new BHI study called ”Project Labor Agreements on [...]
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Big Dig, Boston Globe, David G. Tuerck, Executive Order 13502, Massachusetts, Op-Ed, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, Project Labor Agreements
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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 28, 2009 – 8:56 am
Sunday the Boston Herald editorial board wrote a piece summarizing the latest study on costly and anti-competitive project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal construction projects from the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) and agreed with one of the BHI’s key conclusions about PLAs (”Political Payback,” 9/27).
The institute’s latest report on PLAs casts doubt on the only rationale for the agreements – [...]
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Tagged Beacon Hill Institute, Boston Herald, David G. Tuerck, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, PLA Study, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements
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August 31, 2009 – 8:55 am
Most of the academic “studies” published in support of Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) are produced by state university “labor institutes” with close connections to labor unions and convenient funding from taxpayers. One of the most notorious is the University of California Labor Institute, established in 2000 at the behest of the California Labor Federation. This [...]
