{"id":949,"date":"2013-01-24T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T11:50:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:26:46","slug":"worker-advocate-files-brief-in-federal-dispute-over-forced-unionization-in-michigan-public-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/worker-advocate-files-brief-in-federal-dispute-over-forced-unionization-in-michigan-public-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker Advocate Files Brief in Federal Dispute over Forced Unionization in Michigan Public Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2013\/01\/michigan-pla-brief-01242013\" title=\"Worker Advocate Files Brief in Federal Dispute over Forced Unionization in Michigan Public Projects\">Worker Advocate Files Brief in Federal Dispute over Forced Unionization in Michigan Public Projects<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union bosses seek to uphold discriminatory system in awarding public contracts<\/h3>\n<p><b>Cincinnati, OH (January 24 2013)<\/b> \u2013 Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have filed a brief in support of a Michigan law prohibiting state and local government agencies from imposing so-called \u00abproject labor agreements\u00bb (PLAs) that require unionized workers for public projects.<\/p>\n<p>Foundation staff attorneys filed the <i>amicus curiae<\/i> (\u00abfriend of the court\u00bb) brief yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit located in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan recently passed a law prohibiting government-mandated PLAs on public construction projects.  Shortly thereafter, Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council and Genesse, Lapeer, Shiawassee Building and Construction Trades Council union bosses challenged the law in federal court, claiming federal labor law preempts the state&#8217;s ability to opt out of mandating PLAs on state-funded public construction projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2013\/01\/michigan-pla-brief-01242013\">Click here to read the full release.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2013\/01\/michigan-pla-brief-01242013\" title=\"Worker Advocate Files Brief in Federal Dispute over Forced Unionization in Michigan Public Projects\">Worker Advocate Files Brief in Federal Dispute over Forced Unionization in Michigan Public Projects<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union bosses seek to uphold discriminatory system in awarding public contracts<\/h3>\n<p><b>Cincinnati, OH (January 24 2013)<\/b> \u2013 Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have filed a brief in support of a Michigan law prohibiting state and local government agencies from imposing so-called \u00abproject labor agreements\u00bb (PLAs) that require unionized workers for public projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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