February 5, 2010 – 2:45 pm
At a Feb. 2 House Education and Labor Committee hearing, U.S. Representative Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) questioned U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis on President Obama’s pro-project labor agreement (PLA) Executive Order 13502 for federal construction contracts and asked why the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) mandated a PLA on a Job Corps Center in Manchester, N.H.
After a protest was [...]
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Tagged Education and Labor, Executive Order 13502, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, Hearing, Pennsylvania, PLAs, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Rep. Glenn Thompson, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
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December 15, 2009 – 5:14 am
From 2001 until Feb. 6, 2009 Executive Order 13202 protected at least $147.1 billion worth of federal construction projects from discriminatory and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs).
In addition, the order prohibited PLAs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of federally-assisted construction projects across the country. Federally-assisted projects are local, state or private construction projects [...]
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, featured, Federal Construction, Federal Contracting, OMB, OMB Memo, PLAs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Section 7, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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October 6, 2009 – 11:46 am
TheTruthAboutPLAs blogged about the first proposed government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) since President Obama signed Executive Order 13502 (”First Federal Project Labor Agreement Under Obama Administration Riles Senator Gregg,” 9/18).
On 10/2, a discriminatory and costly PLA was officially included in the contract solicitation for the construction of a U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps Center in [...]
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Tagged Executive Order 13502, Manchester, New Hampshire, PLAs, PLAs Cut Competition, PLAs Discriminate, PLAs Increase Costs, President Obama, Project Labor Agreements, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Senator Gregg, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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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 [...]
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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 15, 2009 – 11:53 am
It is no secret that U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis supports the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and Project Labor Agreements. Yesterday she addressed the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh, PA and reaffirmed her support of these special interest policies that will kill jobs and exclusively benefit Big Labor and harm American taxpayers, workers and [...]
Big Labor has a strong ally in U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. We previously wrote how she openly supports discriminatory and costly PLAs.
If you won’t take our word that Secretary Solis personally wants to advance Big Labor’s agenda, read the Secretary Solis interview in The Washington Post (”Solis Hopes to ‘Level the Playing Field’ [...]
At this week’s Building & Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO Legislative Conference, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said something mystifying. She actually said that she supports a mechanism designed to keep the 84 percent of the private construction workforce from laboring construction projects, especially those workers who happen to be a woman or member of [...]
