Category Archives: Project Labor Agreements
Colorado Newscast Exposes Big Labor Pressure Tactics
A Denver-area TV newscast recently exposed one of Big Labor’s most aggressive tactics for pressuring nonunion construction firms. Labor bosses use “Shame on” banners to tarnish the good name of these job creators. Jermey Jojola from Denver’s 9NEWS exposes the farce. To learn more, visit www.shameonunionbanners.com.
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Where’s The Outrage?
Over at our sister blog, The Truth About PLAs, Ben Brubeck asks “GSA Wasted Millions on Union Handout: Where’s the Outrage?” Congress and the media should renew their interest in the GSA’s anti-competitive procurement practices and call for reform. The GSA needs to be held accountable for any instance of waste, whether it be procuring [...]
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HTA Spokesman Shares Real-World View of Big Labor
Nationally recognized political expert Michael Barone has published the experience of our own HTA spokesman! Reader Brett McMahon, who has a concrete construction business, is puzzled why Rick Santorum’s votes on union issues have not proved a political liability in Southern states. I am not sure I share his characterization of Santorum’s record, but I [...]
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Why Unions Hurt The Middle Class
For decades we have been told that unions help the middle class. We have heard it from unions, from politicians that receive union contributions and from a sympathetic media. However, when one examines the facts this claim is completely false. How can an organization that represents a small minority the workforce, just over 10%, but [...]
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Will Prosperity Be On The 2012 Ballot?
What we’re reading this morning, courtesy of David Nace: The events of the 1980s clearly demonstrate that the middle class benefits from government policies that promote prosperity rather than programs that promote dependency at the expense of prosperity. The real question going into to the 2012 election is whether middle-class voters will see through the [...]
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The Green Jobs Myth
Those of us old enough remember a time when Greens and Blue Collars didn’t play well together, largely because environmentalists often demanded economically damaging policies that would put manufacturing and construction jobs at risk (think: spotted owl and timber workers). Then came a stroke of political genius — GREEN JOBS! Political genius, yes, because it [...]
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Believe in Freedom? Union Says “There’s A Price To Pay”
A gentleman recently shared his beliefs that employees should have the right to work without having to pay union dues and offered the opinion that unions can be bad for business and economic growth. So what happened? He got picketed. And he got threatened. The response from a union official: “We just wanted Mr. Kfoury [...]
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The Disgusting, Literal Assault on A Non-Union Employer
LaborUnionReport.com has this breaking story: Until Wednesday, the worst of the union attacks on King and his business came in the mid-eighties during the UAW strike at AP Parts. During a lull during the lengthy strike, King’s business was picketed by more than 50 IBEW picketers. This was at a time when he only had [...]
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Will GOPers Cave on Principled Vote? (Project Labor Agreements)