Norwich ― As the $385 million school construction project gets underway, city officials are considering whether to enter a project labor agreement with local trade unions that would mandate a percenta.
Speak the truth about project labor agreements
Constriction at the Engineering & Science Building at UConn Storrs campus
A commentary Dec. 31 in the CT Mirror by Keith Brothers, the Business Manager of the CT Laborers District Council and President of the Norwich-New London Building Trades Council, contained some valid points, but its main point that project labor agreements do not cost more money is widely known to be false.
Alan Calandro
To be clear I am sympathetic to the building trades and to some extent to union protections. My father was a building contractor and was in a carpenter’s union at one point in his life. I am not anti-union (although the unions are clearly a powerful special interest in politics that skews public policy in their favor – but that’s another topic). Brothers points out positive things about PLAs such as giving workers careers rather than short-term jobs, better wages, benefits, health insurance, retirement plans for workers, safer job sites