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America’s most notorious union-only project labor agreement<\/a> (PLA), Boston’s "Big Dig," will come to completion<\/a> with the end of 2007. What a bittersweet day for citizens of Boston. The Associated Press puts it this way:<\/p>\n

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\t\t"Don’t expect any champagne toasts." \t\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As also noted by the AP, the Big Dig’s history was "littered with wrong turns" such as a major tunnel leak in 2004, as well as the tragic death of a motorist in 2006.<\/p>\n

Financially, the Big Dig sapped taxpayers for $14.8 billion<\/i>, over five and a half times the original cost estimate of $2.6 billion. <\/p>\n

This train wreck of a public construction project should serve as "exhibit A" of the gluttonous waste inherent in PLAs. Such projects are also a "lose-lose" for employees that wish to remain nonunion because they are blackballed from working, as well as for the taxpayers forced to foot the bill. <\/p>\n

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America’s most notorious union-only project labor agreement<\/a> (PLA), Boston’s "Big Dig," will come to completion<\/a> with the end of 2007. What a bittersweet day for citizens of Boston. The Associated Press puts it this way:<\/p>\n

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\t\t"Don’t expect any champagne toasts." \t\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As also noted by the AP, the Big Dig’s history was "littered with wrong turns" such as a major tunnel leak in 2004, as well as the tragic death of a motorist in 2006.<\/p>\n

Financially, the Big Dig sapped taxpayers for $14.8 billion<\/i>, over five and a half times the original cost estimate of $2.6 billion. <\/p>\n

This train wreck of a public construction project should serve as "exhibit A" of the gluttonous waste inherent in PLAs. 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