{"id":2670,"date":"2002-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:57","slug":"national-right-to-work-joins-appeal-to-ban-discriminatory-union-only-contracting-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/national-right-to-work-joins-appeal-to-ban-discriminatory-union-only-contracting-0\/","title":{"rendered":"National Right to Work Joins Appeal to Ban Discriminatory Union-Only Contracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 11, 2002)<\/b> \u2014 The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed an <i>amicus curiae<\/i> brief in support of the Bush administration\u2019s appeal of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia\u2019s decision to strike down a pro-worker Executive Order.  The President issued Executive Order 13202 to ban union-only contracts, or project labor agreements (PLAs), on federally funded construction projects.  <\/p>\n<p>In their \u201cFriend of the Court\u201d brief, filed jointly (pursuant to court rules) with Associated Builders and Contractors and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Foundation attorneys argue that President Bush acted within his constitutional authority by issuing the Executive Order banning union-only contracts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is wrong for the federal government to support a scheme that bilks taxpayers out of millions of dollars and deprives employees of their basic right to choose whether or not to affiliate with a union,\u201d said Foundation Vice President <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A PLA is a scheme which requires that all contractors, whether they are unionized or not, subject themselves and their employees to unionization in order to work on government-funded construction projects.  PLAs usually require contractors to grant union officials monopoly bargaining privileges over all workers; use exclusive union hiring halls; force workers to pay dues as a condition of employment; and pay above-market prices resulting from wasteful work rules and featherbedding.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 percent of American contractors and their employees have refrained from unionization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPLAs are nothing more than a shakedown \u2014 union officials use them to demand taxpayer handouts and government-granted special privileges in exchange for not ordering strikes or causing other disruptions,\u201d said Gleason.<\/p>\n<p>Oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will be held on May 10, 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. 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