Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds PLAs (project labor agreements)

Source: AFL-CIO News Blog

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s ruling upholding project labor agreements (PLAs) on state-funded construction projects.

A group of nonunion contractors sued the state’s Department of General Services in an attempt to halt the renovation of the SCI Graterford prison using PLAs, arguing that the agreement discriminated against nonunion workers.

Judge Dan Pellegrini, speaking for the majority in the case of Hawbaker v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last month, disagreed arguing that nonunion contractors have as much opportunity to bid on state projects as signatory contractors.

Project labor agreements are project-specific, pre-hire collective bargaining agreements that help contractors and managers provide cost-efficient, high-quality and on-time construction.

FULL story at link.

Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/02/04/pennsylvania-supreme-court-upholds-plas/

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Nice to have some positive news for the working people today. :D

competing on the same basis. It seems to me the only unhappy people would be contractors who want to cut corners or people opposed to unions for political reasons.

One for the people! :woohoo:

they should join the union rather than fight it. morons who dont know what's good for them.