Bureaucrats Are Letting Biden Edict Stand
On a multi-billion dollar federal project, a PLA could add hundreds of millions of dollars to taxpayer costs.
Politicians beholden to Big Labor will stop at nothing to prevent workers from exercising their free choice as to whether to join a union. You can add Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to that list.
The mayor has decreed that any city project that receives funds from the Community Redevelopment Agency must agree to use union workers.
Rather than ensuring the best quality work at the lowest cost, this special-interest earmark to Big Labor prevents workers who chose not the join a union from getting work from a fund they subsidize with their taxes.
On a multi-billion dollar federal project, a PLA could add hundreds of millions of dollars to taxpayer costs.
“Both because of their substantial net taxpayer losses due to domestic migration, and because the taxpayers they gained reported $13,469 less income apiece than the taxpayers they lost, forced-unionism states lost a total of $65.7 billion in AGI in 2021 alone.”
Successful effort comes as Biden-Harris NLRB tightens restrictions on workers voting out unions