Iowa gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad has spoke out this week against against Gov. Chet Culver’s Executive Order 22 and his efforts to encourage state agencies to consider and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on state projects.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette asked the former governor about the PLA issue on the campaign trail. Here [...]
December 16, 2009 – 8:56 am
The New Orleans City Business ran a story on the anticipated impact of project labor agreements (PLAs) on Louisiana contractors and the greater New Orleans construction industry (Project Labor Ageeements Irk Contractors, 12/14).
Construction industry officials insist it will have the opposite effect and severely impact right-to-work states such as Louisiana, where union labor is hard [...]
October 7, 2009 – 11:28 am
The Washington Times covered President Obama’s Executive Order 13502 and the bid protest filed this week with the Government Accountability Office by North Branch Construction, a Concord, N.H.-based general contractor and member of ABC (“Obama Puts Union Strings on Federal Jobs,” 10/7).
The focus of the bid protest is a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on [...]
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September 17, 2009 – 5:09 pm
In an outstanding piece titled, “Forced Union Payments on Tax Paid Projects,” Mike Thompson of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy calls President Obama’s Executive Order 13502, which encourages federal agencies and departments to utilize wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal projects over $25 million, “egregious” and “simply unfair.”
Here are the [...]
There is great confusion in the construction community about the legality of PLAs in right to work states. The media, public, elected officials and construction professionals would benefit from understanding the small but significant difference between PLAs in right to work states and PLAs in non-right to work states.
PLAs can occur in right to work [...]
Yesterday I wrote about how pension provisions in typical PLAs:
Hurt retirement for non-union workers. Employer retirement contributions into union pension plans on behalf of non-union workers are forfeited unless workers join a union.
Keep underfunded and mismanaged union pension plans afloat.
Expose contractors to underfunded multi-employer pension withdrawal liability.
Increase costs to construction users because double pension payment (one [...]
