Project 2025 is not being dismantled. It’s more like a submarine that’s been spotted and has dropped to periscope level. Donald Trump not so much lies as he confabulates - makes up fantasies when he doesn’t know or can’t accept the facts. He lives in a fantasy world. Look up confabulation and dementia on the internet.
Thank you, David. With all of the other publicized revolting and regressive chapters and quotes from Project 2025, the chapter on labor law is not getting the attention it deserves. Hopefully that will soon change.
An item that caught my eye, and I’m not at all surprised with its inclusion in Project 2025, is the attack on the federal prevailing wage and project labor agreements.
“While acknowledging that there is disagreement on the issue, Project 2025 articulates the case that federal prevailing wage should be repealed. Prevailing wage requirements “redistribute[] wealth from hardworking Americans to those that benefit from government-funded construction projects. Repealing [the prevailing wage] would increase worker freedom and end a longstanding effective tax on American families.” (Pages 603-604)
“This section also proposes that the government “end all mandatory Project Labor Agreement requirements and base federal procurement decisions on the contractors that can deliver the best product at the lowest cost.””
These provisions and wage protections are commonly used in California on construction projects funded by all levels of government including school districts and government owned stadiums, arenas, and convention centers which are paid for, in full or in part, by tax payer dollars. In some cases project labor agreements may stipulate the requirement for union labor in lieu of the federal prevailing wage or the other way in reverse.
Disputes and disagreements frequently arise during pre-bid negotiations and RFI’s between government agencies and potential contractors and labor unions. Obviously, labor unions and sub-contractor’s with labor union agreements want mandatory pro-labor clauses, general contractors don’t want either union involvement or federal prevailing wages, and government officials and elected representatives bend both ways in the wind depending on campaign donors. Democrats want union and/or prevailing wage. Republicans and anti-tax groups want none of that and neither do developers if it’s a partially tax payer funded public-private partnership project. Projects frequently end up in litigation and everyone pays more due to time delays.
The trick used most often in Southern California is the developers and contractors, if given anti-labor or anti-prevailing wage concessions will upon contract award, run to Arizona, which is a right-to-work, anti-union, federal minimum wage state to hire all the construction workers. Thus, no local construction worker jobs. Elected Democrats and unions have finally gotten smart on this deception.
Project 2025 is not being dismantled. It’s more like a submarine that’s been spotted and has dropped to periscope level. Donald Trump not so much lies as he confabulates - makes up fantasies when he doesn’t know or can’t accept the facts. He lives in a fantasy world. Look up confabulation and dementia on the internet.
Citizens United, a union of corporations is highly accepted, but a union of workers is not to corporations that find safety and power in their union.
Thank you, David. With all of the other publicized revolting and regressive chapters and quotes from Project 2025, the chapter on labor law is not getting the attention it deserves. Hopefully that will soon change.
An item that caught my eye, and I’m not at all surprised with its inclusion in Project 2025, is the attack on the federal prevailing wage and project labor agreements.
“While acknowledging that there is disagreement on the issue, Project 2025 articulates the case that federal prevailing wage should be repealed. Prevailing wage requirements “redistribute[] wealth from hardworking Americans to those that benefit from government-funded construction projects. Repealing [the prevailing wage] would increase worker freedom and end a longstanding effective tax on American families.” (Pages 603-604)
“This section also proposes that the government “end all mandatory Project Labor Agreement requirements and base federal procurement decisions on the contractors that can deliver the best product at the lowest cost.””
These provisions and wage protections are commonly used in California on construction projects funded by all levels of government including school districts and government owned stadiums, arenas, and convention centers which are paid for, in full or in part, by tax payer dollars. In some cases project labor agreements may stipulate the requirement for union labor in lieu of the federal prevailing wage or the other way in reverse.
Disputes and disagreements frequently arise during pre-bid negotiations and RFI’s between government agencies and potential contractors and labor unions. Obviously, labor unions and sub-contractor’s with labor union agreements want mandatory pro-labor clauses, general contractors don’t want either union involvement or federal prevailing wages, and government officials and elected representatives bend both ways in the wind depending on campaign donors. Democrats want union and/or prevailing wage. Republicans and anti-tax groups want none of that and neither do developers if it’s a partially tax payer funded public-private partnership project. Projects frequently end up in litigation and everyone pays more due to time delays.
The trick used most often in Southern California is the developers and contractors, if given anti-labor or anti-prevailing wage concessions will upon contract award, run to Arizona, which is a right-to-work, anti-union, federal minimum wage state to hire all the construction workers. Thus, no local construction worker jobs. Elected Democrats and unions have finally gotten smart on this deception.