On May 27, KNSD Channel 7/39 News in San Diego (an NBC affiliate) showed a three-minute story on Proposition G, the voter initiative on the June 8 ballot in the City of Chula Vista to prohibit the city from entering into contracts that require contractors to sign project labor agreements (PLAs). The story was also [...]
By Kevin Dayton
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Tagged 20 in 2010, 2010 Election, ABC California, California, Chula Vista, Gaylord Hotel, Greenmail, Kevin Dayton, PLA victim, PLAs, TV Coverage, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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The Wall Street Journal reported on a preposterous construction labor dispute illustrating Big Labor’s grip on the Big Apple (“Union Spat Clouds School Project,” 5/3/10).
The New School is planning to build a $215 million classroom and dormitory building on the corner of 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, but the Painters Union DC 9 is blocking [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged Edward Malloy, McGraw Hill Construction, New York, New York Times, Painters Union, PLA victim, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Subcontracting News, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Wall Street Journal
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Pennsylvania’s Graterford Prison project labor agreement (PLA) controversy is in the Philadelphia newspapers again. No progress has been made on the construction of this important project.
Looking for something to blame?
It’s the PLA, stupid!
Looking for someone to blame?
Blame Big Labor’s lobbyists for pushing costly, job-killing special interest PLAs and blame public officials for allowing these backroom kickback schemes to [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged Commonwealth Foundation, Department of General Services, Graterford, Legal Challenge, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Inquirer, PLA victim, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements, Rendell, The Pennsylvania Independent, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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The Waterbury Republican American reported on 2/24/10 that two CT schools recently constructed under project labor agreements (PLAs) have suffered cost overruns, construction defects and missed construction deadlines.
CONSTRUCTION CONTRAST: Item: The $20.5 million Rotella Interdistrict Magnet School was finished late and came in 10 percent over budget. Today, it’s leaky, the climate-control system is faulty, the [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged Connecticut, Editorial, PLA victim, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Republican American, School Construction, Union-only PLAs harm local workers, Waterbury
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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:
At [...]
January 5, 2010 – 6:38 am
Here at TheTruthAboutPLAs.com, we want to make sure we catch any important PLA-related developments that occurred over the holidays.
In a December 22 editorial, the Riverside, CA Press-Enterprise expressed its frustration with the Riverside Community College District Board’s recent handout to Big Labor in the form of a project labor agreement (PLA) requirement on all college [...]
October 5, 2009 – 9:25 am
The government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the Manchester, NH Job Corps project continues to garner negative publicity. In an October 2 Washington Examiner editorial titled, “No Local Construction Firms Need Apply,” Barbara Hollingsworth notes Senator Judd Gregg’s frustration with the impact this PLA will have on New Hampshire’s construction industry.
Here’s an excerpt:
And since the Labor [...]
September 18, 2009 – 4:26 am
The first government mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a federal construction project during the Obama Presidency has been attached to a $10+ million U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Jobs Corp Center in Manchester, NH. A statement released by Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) highlights the problems with a government mandated PLA in New Hampshire, where just 8.7 [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged DOL, Executive Order 13502, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLA victim, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Senator Gregg, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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September 9, 2009 – 6:40 am
The winner of the most absurd PLA-related quote of the week goes to a local official in Monroe, MI. The Monroe City Council was forced to accept a bid on a water main repair and rehabilitation project that was 12.7 percent or approximately $200,000 higher than the engineer’s estimate because it was the only bid [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ARRA, Executive Order 13202, Executive Order 13502, Michigan, PLA victim, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Section 7
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September 7, 2009 – 6:22 am
Brett McMahon of Miller & Long Concrete (Washington, DC) discusses the negative impact of project labor agreements (PLAs) and President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 on construction businesses with Fox Business Channel’s 9/3 “Happy Hour” program.
Miller & Long is the largest concrete contractor in the U.S. and was named the number one concrete construction company in the United [...]
