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On a roll: Wisconsin Senate passes another labor reform bill
via watchdog

MADISON, Wis. – Another big win for Wisconsin taxpayers comes again at the expense of big labor. DECONSTRUCTING BARRIERS? The Wisconsin Senate on Wednesday passed a bill reforming Wisconsin project labor agreement laws. The bill, proponents say, would...
Horse Gone, Search Ensues to Find Out Who Should Have Closed the Door
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by James A. Bacon A new question has arisen about the proposed $1.4 billion upgrade to U.S. 460 between Petersburg and Suffolk. Once the McDonnell administration ascertained that none of the three public-private partnership proposals on the table were...
Durbin critical of Army Corps decision not to use a project labor agreement for the Wood River Levee, a part of the Metr...
via riverbender

CHICAGO – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today criticized a decision by the Army Corps of Engineers not to select a contract with a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) for the Wood River Levee in Wood Continue Reading
New Bill Would Ban Mandatory Project Labor Agreements
via nlpc

In the construction industry, nothing exemplifies union monopoly, and its costs, quite like a Project Labor Agreement. A new proposal before Congress, the Government Neutrality in Contracting Act, would protect contractors from intrusion by organized...
Smoothing Over Project Labor Agreement Disputes in Closed Session: The Latest Union Scheme for “Progress” in California
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It’s trendy right now among American intellectuals to assert that “outdated” structural checks and balances in the United States Constitution and in other rules for governance are hindering economic and social Progress at the national...

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AGC NY Archives - The Truth About PLAs

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 (PL...
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Educating the public, elected officials, taxpayers and the construction industry about wasteful and inefficient project labor agreements (PLAs).

Discrimination Archives - The Truth About PLAs

The debate surrounding government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) is often framed by the media and elected officials as a dispute pitting union signatory contractors and their union employees...