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PA: Unions Favored On Prison Projects

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Unions Favored On Prison Projects By BRADLEY?VASOLI, The Bulletin Monday, August 10, 2009 The state expects to build two new prisons in place of Graterford in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, and is prepared to allow only union labor in the construction process. An association of mostly nonunion contractors said the Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS) had asserted earlier that the state wouldn?t approve a project labor agreement (PLA) that kept nonunion shops from working on Graterford. ?There were assurances that there wasn?t going to be a PLA,? said Geoffrey Zeh, president of Associated Builders and Contractors? (ABC) southeastern Pennsylvania chapter. ?Then at the 11th hour, they come in.? In the spring of 2008, DGS issued a ?letter of commitment? saying it would proceed to issue PLAs for several prison rebuilding projects if feasibility studies support the idea...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).