A Victory Against Obama’s Unionism in New Hampshire

In a victory for free labor, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has cancelled its solicitation for bids to build a new Jobs Corps Center in the state of New Hampshire. Why is it a victory? Because initial plans to receive bids would have discriminated against non-union construction companies per President Obama’s orders. Over 80% of all construction companies are non-union.

Executive Order 13502, signed early in Obama’s term, was applied to the New Hampshire construction project and instituted what is known as a Project Labor Agreement (PLA). A PLA is a way to force all companies working on a construction project to agree to union rules, dues, pensions and payments whether they are union shops and their employees are union members or not.

In effect, a PLA turns every employee and company working on a PLA enforced project into a unionized force. Naturally, this drives up costs, lengthens deadlines, and forces employees to fork over dues money even if they don’t belong to a union.

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Tags: Associated Builders and Contractors, Barack Obama, Department of Labor, New Hampshire, project labor agreements
Posted Nov 14th 2009 at 9:56 am in Big Labor, Economics, Obama | 2909467 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2009/11/14/a-victory-against-obamas-unionism-in-new-hampshire/A+Victory+Against+Obama%27s+Unionism+in+New+Hampshire2009-11-14+16%3A56%3A39Warner+Todd++Huston