Statement: “PLAs deny nearly 85 percent of California’s construction workforce the ability to do public work projects … PLAs put special interests ahead of the public interest by restricting the bidding process to ONLY contractors backed by big labor unions…,” Eric Christen, executive director of Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction, wrote in an editorial published in the San Diego Daily Transcript on March 1.
Analysis: Christen’s editorial blasted project labor agreements, or PLAs, which are pre-hire agreements used by government for some public works contracts. The San Diego Unified School District has instituted one but the county and other local municipalities want to ban them.
Who Can Bid, Work For PLA Projects?
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