Archive for April 2005
Project Labor Agreements: Union Monopoly in Public Works Construction
Project labor agreements, or PLAs, have been around since the 1930s. But they have become an increasingly common means for unions to exercise, directly or indirectly, monopoly power over labor markets since the U.S. Supreme Court gave them the green light in 1993 – in a ruling involving another massive Boston project. Less than 15%…
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