San Diego KCBQ AM 1170’s Rick Amato talks project labor agreements (PLAs) with Scott Crosby, president of Associated Builders and Contractor’s San Diego Chapter on the March 4 edition of the Rick Amato Show.
It’s great radio and they really do an outstanding job of touching on why PLAs are a bad deal for San Diego.
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Jan Mickelson from the Mickelson in the Morning show, Iowa’s most popular daily talk show, discusses Governor Chet Culver’s Executive Order 22, encouraging state agencies to consider project labor agreements (PLAs) on state construction, with Brett McMahon, vice president of Miller & Long, a concrete construction subcontractor, and a member of the Associated Builders and [...]
December 22, 2009 – 9:43 am
More and more people are starting to notice President Obama’s handout (Executive Order 13502) to the construction unions. This time, it is Glen Meakem. Mr. Meakem is an economic innovator, Gulf War veteran, Harvard graduate and a radio host on several stations in Pennsylvania – and he thinks PLAs are “morally offensive.”
Here is an excerpt from [...]
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November 9, 2009 – 9:48 am
An editorial from WGAL Channel 8’s president and general manager, Paul Quinn, supports PA Rep. John C. Bear’s (97th District in Lancaster County) legislation (H.B. 2010) prohibiting government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) in PA.
While we do not have anything against unions, we think it is unfair to eliminate the vast majority of Pennsylvania construction companies from bidding [...]
November 4, 2009 – 12:47 pm
UPDATE at 3:00 p.m. EST on 11/4: Kevin’s radio appearance has been changed to Thursday, November 5 at 12:05 p.m PST.
ABC California Government Affairs Director and TheTruthAboutPLAs.com contributor Kevin Dayton will be on “The Capitol Hour with Eric Hogue” radio talk show today from 12:05 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. PST on KTKZ 1380 AM out of [...]
November 3, 2009 – 8:02 am
Greg Hoberock, President of ABC member hth Companies in Union, Missouri, discussed discriminatory and costly project labor agreements (PLAs) and Executive Order 13502 with Michael McSorley on KRMS News Talk 1150 “Morning Mag” on 10/28.
Scroll down and click on the rebroadcast titled, “October 28th, 2009: Greg Hoberock on Project Labor Agreements” for an interesting perspective on PLAs.
Mr. Hoberock calls [...]
October 26, 2009 – 4:15 pm
Jack Zimmer, president of Associated Builders and Contractors Keystone Chapter, appeared on several radio programs on Tuesday, October 27 to discuss the Save His Endangered Job campaign against wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements.
7:10am on York’s Morning News with Gary Sutton (Streaming Audio; WSBA 910 AM Harrisburg, PA)
9-10am on air debate with Frank Sirianni, president [...]
October 15, 2009 – 12:00 pm
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com contributor Kevin Dayton was on “Capitol Hour with Eric Hogue,” a radio talk show on KTKZ AM 1380 out of Sacramento, to discuss project labor agreements (PLAs) and the University of California Miguel Contreras Labor Program.
The segment was outstanding and hit on both the problems with PLAs and also the pro-PLA propaganda coming from [...]
October 15, 2009 – 8:35 am
New Hampshire Public Radio produced a fair and balanced report on the discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on the new U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in Manchester, New Hampshire (”Concord Company Complains About Project Labor Agreements,” 10/14). Listen here.
September 23, 2009 – 9:15 am
ABC Keystone chapter president Jack Zimmer and government affairs director Steve Swarney slammed PLAs on “The Box” radio program hosted by Matt Brouillette. Mr. Brouillette is president and CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, which is “dedicated to advancing state-level public policies based on our nation’s founding principles of limited government, economic freedom and personal responsibility.”
Mr. Brouillette also [...]
