{"id":9488,"date":"2011-03-30T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2011-03-30T07:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:40:02","slug":"the-pla-a-construction-union%e2%80%99s-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/the-pla-a-construction-union%e2%80%99s-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"The PLA: A Construction Union\u2019s Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"
(Lori Piotrowski<\/em>) – Project Labor Agreement. This little-known tool assures construction unions that their members are employed, their coffers are full, and right-to-work shops are put out of business.<\/p>\n From the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2009, more than 6,600,000 persons were employed in construction. About 15% of these persons were represented by unions. (Keep that statistic in mind.) One year later, 500,000 persons had lost their job in construction, and less than 14% of them were union members.<\/p>\n So, we see that 86% of the construction labor workforce is NON-union.<\/p>\n These figures are important because a Project Labor Agreement, or PLA, dictates how a new construction project will be put to bid, who will work on the project, and what the project will cost.<\/p>\n A PLA-governed project imposes these conditions on a non-union contractor:<\/p>\n PLAs are prevalent in most government-related construction, and Clark County is no exception. Some of the current projects include:<\/p>\n Northern Nevada hasn\u2019t escaped PLAs either. Two recent projects that were under Project Labor Agreements were the Reno\u2019s Aces Ballpark and The Legends at Sparks Marina retail project.<\/p>\n A minority wields the power to determine who will work, when, and where. A mere 14% lays down the terms that the super-majority must follow.<\/p>\n Great work if you can get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Lori Piotrowski) – Project Labor Agreement. This little-known tool assures construction unions that their members are employed, their coffers are full, and right-to-work shops are put out of business. From the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2009, more than 6,600,000 persons were employed in construction. About 15% of these persons were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9492,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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