Saturday, February 07, 2009

All Stimulus Construction Will Be Done Union-Only Under Executive Order

Be sure to read my commentary that expands on the effect this action will have on the American workforce and Barack's chances of getting re-elected.

Lost in the Stimupalooza going on around the conservative blogosphere this week has been Obama's rescission of Bush Executive Order 13202 which banned discriminatory, union-only Project Labor Agreements.

Executive Order 13202 prohibited federal agencies and recipients of federal financial assistance from requiring wasteful and discriminatory union-only PLAs on federal and federally funded construction projects. Construction contracts subject to union-only PLAs are almost always awarded to unionized contractors and their all-union workforces.

A union-only PLA is a contract that requires a federal construction project to be awarded only to contractors and subcontractors that agree to recognize unions as the representatives of their employees on that job; use the union hiring hall to obtain workers; pay union wages and benefits; and obey the union’s restrictive work rules, job classifications and arbitration procedures.
This is the latest controversial Obama policy released late on a Friday afternoon. Hope, Change and Transparency at work.

UPDATE: Here is a good Star Tribune Commentary on the subject.



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