Posts Tagged ‘Hurricane Sandy’
New Jersey Senator: Pro-union bill benefits no one
Gerald Cardinale, Republican State Senator from New Jersey, explains why he opposed a PLA bill for Hurricane Sandy recovery. PLAs swell project costs because they eliminate competition. ON JAN. 14, many of my colleagues and I voted against an expansion of project labor agreements, which allow elected officials to funnel more public projects to labor…
Read MoreProfiting on Disaster: NJ Senate Votes To Exclude Non-Union Construction Workers For Hurricane Sandy Work
Nonunion contractors and workers don’t stand a chance with this bill. Labor Union Report has the story: A bill that was authored by an Ironworkers’ union organizer to expand union-only Project Labor Agreements–to include Hurricane Sandy cleanup and reconstruction–passed the New Jersey Senate on Monday along party lines 23-13. The Ironworkers’ union organizer who drafted…
Read MoreTop Electrical Workers Union Bosses Admit Their Agents Sought Forced-Dues Windfall as Hurricane Sandy Threatened Northeastern U.S.
Amid Sandy’s devastation, Long Island union sent … – The Daily Caller Setting the Record Straight on Hurricane Sandy Response  At the beginning of this month, an array of news outlets reported about how the forced-unionism demands of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW/AFL-CIO) were impeding efforts in New York and New Jersey to prepare a…
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