An editorial in the Williamsport Sun Gazette questions the “source, timing and validity” of Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s remarks in his eighth and final budget address that chided “special interest groups for stymieing his legislative efforts to curb special interests” (”Timing suspicious on lobbyist crackdown,” 3/19). It also calls government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) a “rigged [...]
There is renewed interest in the delayed construction of over $800 million worth of prison construction in Pennsylvania.
As regular readers of TheTruthAboutPLAs.com remember, Gov. Ed Rendell (D) promised the Pennsylvania construction unions in 2008 that the Department of General Services (DGS) would require contractors to sign wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) in order [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged Benner Township, Department of General Services, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Increase Costs, PLAs Kill Jobs, Prisons, Rendell, Rockview, Save the Endangered Species, State Legislation, The Politics of PLAs
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March 17, 2010 – 11:07 am
The Pasadena Sun-Times is reporting that the the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District has caved to Big Labor’s special interests and pledged to use PLAs on future construction projects (”San Gabriel water district gives big win to organized labor,” 3/14).
Those projects are expected to include a $210 million water recycling plant and several [...]
March 15, 2010 – 11:12 pm
Another Albany Times Union letter to the editor (”Bid project for bridge both ways,” 3/15) refutes a March 6 letter to the editor that encourages the use of a controversial project labor agreement (PLA) on the Lake Champlain Crown Point Bridge (a PLA fight TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has covered here) by Robert J. Jones, business manager of the International [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged AGC, AGC NY, Albany Times Union, Champlain Bridge, Letter to the Editor, New York, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Project Labor Agreements, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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Following the lead of Orange and San Diego Counties, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors is poised to take up an ordinance that would prohibit wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on county construction projects. If adopted, three of the four most populous counties in California will have said no to political handouts, and [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged 20 in 2010, California, local legislation, Ordinance, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Increase Costs, Riverside, Riverside Community College District, Riverside County Board of Supervisors
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In his March 11 State of the County Address, Erie County, NY Executive Chris Collins calls out county legislators for putting Big Labor’s interest ahead of job creation.
Here’s an excerpt:
Erie County also continues to come up with creative solutions to some of our local economic development problems caused by New York State.
Because of inaction in [...]
March 11, 2010 – 12:25 pm
In the latest edition of the Dubuque, IA Telegraph Herald’s “Double Take” feature, supporters and opponents of project labor agreements (PLAs) and Gov. Chet Culver’s Executive Order 22, encouraging state agencies to consider PLAs on state projects, were each given an opportunity to present their views on this issue.
Jim Giese of Dubuque, owner of Jim [...]
Proponents of fair and open bid competition in Santa Barbara County, California gathered March 10th at the county administrative building to protest a proposed project labor agreement for future county construction. On a 3-0 vote with two absences, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted on February 16 to negotiate [...]
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has long maintained that government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) are one of the purest forms of payback to special interests. Sometimes it is hard to believe that PLAs are even legal. And as this example will demonstrate, elected officials go to great lengths to justify their paybacks to special interests.
Matthew J. Brouillette, president and [...]
By BenBrubeck
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Tagged Benner Township, Centre County, Commonwealth Foundation, Department of General Services, Keystone Research Center, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Inquirer, PLA Basics, PLA Fact, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements, Rendell, Rockview, The Philadelphia Independent, Union Propaganda Machine
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