Statement: “First we have this story from [voiceofsandiego.org] trying their best to confuse the issue, but also having to admit that the number is correct. … The second item comes to us from the local NBC affiliate who also checked the claim that [more than 80 percent] of the construction workforce is union-free. They agreed it’s true,” the Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction, an opponent of project labor agreements, said in its March 2 e-mail newsletter.
Analysis: We published a Fact Check last week on a statistic often mentioned in the debate over project labor agreements, which are pre-hire agreements used by government for some public works contracts.
Advocate Tries to Spin Our Fact Check
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