Jun
2012 28
2012 28
NV Assembly Dems Suggest Unprecedented 50% Local Hire on Public Works Projects
According to members of the Southern Nevada Building and Construction Trades Council, the Nevada Assembly Democrats’ new Five Point Plan for Job Creation — described below in their press release — calls for 50% local hire on public works projects. This highly commendable recommendation is unprecedented and far surpasses San...
Jun
2012 19
2012 19
Obama, Rep. Hinchey Have Sights on a PLA for West Point Construction
After securing the funding for new barracks to alleviate severe overcrowding at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) is now pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build the project under a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) in order to ensure efficiency and lower costs. Forty percent of rooms ...
Jun
2012 1
2012 1
Alabama Hyundai Plant Receives 20,000 Applications for 877 Job Openings
Remember that story, from about this time last year, of 1,000,000 people applying for 62,000 McDonald’s job openings? That sure was a depressing moment that yielded lots of conversation about the state of our union, wasn’t it? Well, something similar has happened again, albeit on a smaller scale. In Alabama, Hyundai has received 20,000...
May
2012 25
2012 25
Hawaii Gov. Says Project Labor Agreements Will Be Used on State Funded Public Works
In Hawaii, Governor Neil Abercrombie this week issued a directive that Project Labor Agreements will be used on various state funded construction projects. Citing an improving economy where steps must be taken to ensure timely construction, Abercrombie says he hopes PLAs will bring new opportunity to workers on all of Hawaii’s islands: A...
May
2012 8
2012 8
WORKER VICTORY: Connecticut Senate and House Overwhelmingly Support PLA Legislation
A bill that ensures that Connecticut can use Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) on public works projects cleared the State Senate with a 32-3 vote last week and, yesterday, cleared the House by an equally sizable margin. A legal battle in Hartford brought to light the need for this important legislation which allows the local hire, ...
Apr
2012 26
2012 26
BIG: California Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill to End Bans on Project Labor Agreements
Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) are pre-hire contracts that set standards for wages, diversity, local hire, health coverage and safety on a given public works project. Large municipalities in California, such as San Diego, have attempted to ban them in the past because they claim PLAs are too union-friendly. Often times, though, union contractors...
Apr
2012 26
2012 26
Legal Challenge Puts Quincy, MA’s Responsible Employer Ordinance on Ice
Quincy, Massachusetts’ Responsible Employer Ordinance — at first amended in an attempt to be salvaged — has been halted in court by US District Court Judge Rya Zobel. Zobel put many of its prescribed requirements, urged into law by Mayor Thomas Koch last December, on hold until a June court date. The Responsible Employer...
Apr
2012 24
2012 24
Local Hire Jumped 14% in the Year Following San Francisco’s Implementation of Landmark Law
One year into a landmark Local Hiring policy for construction sites, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor John Avalos say that their endeavor has been hugely successful. A year-end report shows that the city exceeded its local hiring goal of 20 percent, hitting 34 percent while increasing gender and ethnicity diversity on public works ...
Apr
2012 16
2012 16
Building Trades, Ohio State Rep Hold Press Event for Prevailing Wages, Local Hire at CSU
Building Trades unions have been protesting at Cleveland State University, demanding that more local hiring be done and that prevailing wages be honored on the school’s new $50 million “Campus Village” residential project. As we reported earlier this month, labor leaders from the construction industry want the project to be built...
Apr
2012 9
2012 9
Enviro Groups, Building Trades Join in Support of Labor Agreement on CA Solar Project
A new solar power project in Imperial County, California has put the marriage of environmental interest and job-creation on display with the signing of a Project Labor Agreement that will bring local hire to the clean energy Calexico I and Calexico II projects. The Sierra Club, Audubon California, Defenders of Wildlife, the Natural Resources...
Apr
2012 5
2012 5
Cleveland State University Skirting Labor Law, Hiring Out-of-State, Undocumented Workers
The Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council has launched a campaign at Cleveland State University to expose wrongful employment practices at the school. From the newly minted Protect Cleveland Jobs website: Cleveland State University is using unfair and unscrupulous practices in building its new, $50 million residential neighborhood...
Apr
2012 5
2012 5
CT Builders, Unions Awarded $75M in New Busway Work After Initial $130M Went Out-of-State
It was sold as a job-creating bill, but when the first $130 million of the $569 million dollar New-Britain-to-Hartford busway project went to non-union, out-of-state contractors last week, local labor was left out to dry. Labor leaders pledged a tough campaign to make sure that all labor laws would be strictly enforced on the 4,000-job ...
