Gubernatorial Nominee Sells Out Hardhats
To guarantee the huge union political machine’s backing for her gubernatorial campaign, Abigail Spanberger is pushing for union-only PLAs for taxpayer-funded construction.
WalMart’s efforts to open store in Chicago were ultimately successful but now we know why — the store buckled to union activists and agreed to pay inflated construction costs on the estimated $1 billion worth of construction during the next five years. Big labor bosses and their political cronies stopped construction until the Project Labor Agreement was signed. A PLA discriminates against non-union workers and requires all workers on the job to pay union dues and be hired in union halls. Such is the cost of progress in Chicago.
To guarantee the huge union political machine’s backing for her gubernatorial campaign, Abigail Spanberger is pushing for union-only PLAs for taxpayer-funded construction.
On a multi-billion dollar federal project, a PLA could add hundreds of millions of dollars to taxpayer costs.
Big Labor politicians in Boston are now tripping over themselves to scuttle future legal challenges to union-only PLA’s in Massachusetts.