Nearly a year before opening bids on several planned prison sites, Pennsylvania’s Department of General Services (DGS) signed a letter of commitment with the Building and Construction Trades Council (BCTC) which required DGS to award the bid to a member of the council, that is, a union contractor.
The letter states in the first paragraph, “DGS [...]

WGAL President and General Manager Paul Quinn expresses support in an editorial for Rep. John Bear’s legislation (H.B. 2010) to end PLAs in Pennsylvania.
WGAL President and General Manager Paul Quinn:
Rep. John Bear has introduced legislation that would prohibit project labor agreements—PLAs—on public construction in Pennsylvania.
Rep. Bear says government-mandated PLAs punish taxpayers by inflating public construction [...]

HARRISBURG: ABC Keystone’s multi-front media campaign against one of Pennsylvania last, legal forms of job discrimination is gaining traction! If you haven’t noticed, or have been on vacation, we’ve taken our message to the streets in a major way.
Following a rowdy State Capitol press conference earlier this month, where hundreds of paid union workers shouted [...]

Lancaster Sunday News | Oct 11, 2009
No doubt these are difficult economic times, but not everyone is sharing in the pain. With a little less than 13 months to go before we elect a new governor, the current administration is working vigorously to find ways to reward one of its largest constituencies: organized labor.
The only [...]