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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A March 1 San Diego Daily Transcript Op-Ed by Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction’s (CFEC) Eric Christen slams wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements (PLAs) for their negative impact on job growth.
Here are the highlights (Links added):
Unemployment stands at 12.4 percent. The state is facing un-ending multi-billion dollar deficits. The city of Vallejo has [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged 20 in 2010, California, Chula Vista, Oceanside, Op-Ed, PLAs, PLAs are political payoffs to union leaders, PLAs Kill Jobs, San Diego, SDUSD, The Politics of PLAs, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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February 24, 2010 – 5:11 pm
Several polls taken in San Diego County over the past year consistently indicate that more than 90 percent of voters agree with the very basic statement that taxpayers get the best quality construction for the best price when contracts are bid under fair and open competition, without requirements that contractors must sign special agreements with [...]
February 11, 2010 – 5:07 pm
As we reported yesterday, the San Diego Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to draft a ballot initiative for voters to consider that would ban wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on county construction. This move comes in response to Big Labor’s increasingly blatant efforts to monopolize local work in San Diego County.
We noted yesterday that [...]
February 5, 2010 – 10:03 pm
Remember the San Diego Unified School District’s (SDUSD) corrupt move to require project labor agreements (PLAs) on all construction projects funded by the voter-approved $2.1 billion proposition S? Big Labor said the PLAs would help control costs and guarantee a local workforce.
As predicted, the PLA has already failed to deliver on Big Labor’s promises:
WINNING BID IS [...]
November 25, 2009 – 12:46 pm
Not to be outdone by their neighbors in Chula Vista, San Diego residents – led by City Councilman Carl DeMaio – kicked off their campaign to bring fair and open competition to San Diego’s city contracting. Construction stakeholders gathered with Councilman DeMaio to start the drive to gather the 96,000 signatures needed to put the [...]
October 14, 2009 – 3:47 pm
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is getting more resistance to their effort to discriminate against the vast majority of California’s private construction workforce that decided not to join a labor union. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed a claim against the SDUSD arguing that the project stabilization agreement (PSA [...]
August 26, 2009 – 12:28 pm
There are several interesting developments in the fight for open competition in San Diego.
San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Superintendent Terry Grier’s decision to take a new job in Houston, TX is no surprise to the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board, who blame the local teachers union and their labor allies for pushing Mr. Grier [...]
August 12, 2009 – 5:21 pm
The Bulletin continued to cover the Pennsylvania Department of General Services’ decision to require a PLA on the $400 million Graterford prison project. Additionally, the Southeast Pennsylvania chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors launched a marketing campaign to inform the public about the impact of the Graterford prison project PLA on local workers and the [...]
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Tagged ABC California, Benner Township, California, Graterford, Pennsylvania, PLAs, Press Conference, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements, Rendell, Rockview, SavePropS.com, SDUSD, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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Associated General Contractors (AGC) - San Diego filed a lawsuit July 30 against the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD). The suit claims that provisions in the project stabilization agreement (a PLA by another name) approved by the School Board prevent non-union apprentices from working on projects funded by the $2.1 billion voter-approved Proposition S bond and amount to discrimination. In [...]
