{"id":159,"date":"2007-12-07T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:21:55","slug":"philly-rejects-union-blockade-against-minority-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/philly-rejects-union-blockade-against-minority-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Rejects Union Blockade Against Minority Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Inquirer today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/business\/20071207_Opening_doors_to_nonunion_workers.html\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\tAccusing trade unions of standing in the way of minority hiring \tobjectives, City Council yesterday declared the $700 million Convention \tCenter expansion open to nonunion contractors and workers &#8211; an \tunprecedented gesture in a city dominated by organized labor. \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Union officials commonly shut out minority and nonunion contractors from such projects through so-called &quot;<a href=\"\/neutrality\/na_6.htm\">project labor agreements<\/a>.&quot; These cynical pacts require all contractors, whether they are unionized or not, to subject themselves and their employees to unionization in order to work on a government-funded construction project.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the harmful effects of PLAs, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/files\/horowitz-pla-study.pdf\">this study<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/\">National Institute for Labor Relations Research<\/a>. <!--break--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Inquirer today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/business\/20071207_Opening_doors_to_nonunion_workers.html\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\tAccusing trade unions of standing in the way of minority hiring \tobjectives, City Council yesterday declared the $700 million Convention \tCenter expansion open to nonunion contractors and workers &#8211; an \tunprecedented gesture in a city dominated by organized labor. \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Union officials commonly shut out minority and nonunion contractors from such projects through so-called &quot;<a href=\"\/neutrality\/na_6.htm\">project labor agreements<\/a>.&quot; These cynical pacts require all contractors, whether they are unionized or not, to subject themselves and their employees to unionization in order to work on a government-funded construction project.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the harmful effects of PLAs, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/files\/horowitz-pla-study.pdf\">this study<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/\">National Institute for Labor Relations Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Philly Rejects Union Blockade Against Minority Contractors - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/philly-rejects-union-blockade-against-minority-contractors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Philly Rejects Union Blockade Against Minority Contractors - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Philadelphia Inquirer today reports:  Accusing trade unions of standing in the way of minority hiring objectives, City Council yesterday declared the $700 million Convention Center expansion open to nonunion contractors and workers - an unprecedented gesture in a city dominated by organized labor. 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