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Following up on this post<\/a>, today\u2019s Worcester Business Journal<\/i> contains this editorial<\/a> which highlights the problems with so-called \u201cproject labor agreements<\/a>,\u201d which often harm both workers and taxpayers. The article states: <\/p>\n

\n

\t\u201cFair and open competition in public bidding is the American way. Labor unions should compete on the same playing field as anyone else.\u201d \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The editorial continues that the U.S. Department of Labor notes 80 percent of the construction workforce in Massachusetts is nonunion. Yet, because the City of Worcester and other Massachusetts communities award only union contractors these public projects, public officials are denying the lion share of the state\u2019s construction workforce a chance to work.<\/p>\n

Read about the other multi-million (and sometimes multi-billion) dollar public projects Massachusetts taxpayers have been forced to overpay as a result of PLA\u2019s, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following up on this post<\/a>, today\u2019s Worcester Business Journal<\/i> contains this editorial<\/a> which highlights the problems with so-called \u201cproject labor agreements<\/a>,\u201d which often harm both workers and taxpayers. The article states: <\/p>\n

\n

\t\u201cFair and open competition in public bidding is the American way. Labor unions should compete on the same playing field as anyone else.\u201d \t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The editorial continues that the U.S. Department of Labor notes 80 percent of the construction workforce in Massachusetts is nonunion. Yet, because the City of Worcester and other Massachusetts communities award only union contractors these public projects, public officials are denying the lion share of the state\u2019s construction workforce a chance to work.<\/p>\n

Read about the other multi-million (and sometimes multi-billion) dollar public projects Massachusetts taxpayers have been forced to overpay as a result of PLA\u2019s, here<\/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-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nNonunion Need Not Apply - 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\/blog\/nonunion-need-not-apply\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nonunion Need Not Apply - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following up on this post, today\u2019s Worcester Business Journal contains this editorial which highlights the problems with so-called \u201cproject labor agreements,\u201d which often harm both workers and taxpayers. 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