L.A. Companies Brace for Spread of Project Labor Agreements
Posted by: Kevin D. Korenthal | 02/04/2008 10:28 AM
Please pick up a copy of the print edition of the Los Angeles Business Journal (which I highly recommend to any politicos and business owners in the LA-area) to see this and many other important articles.
By
HOWARD FINE - 2/4/2008
Los Angeles Business Journal
Staff
In
difficult economic times, it might seem foolhardy to pass up contracts, but
that's precisely what Dennis Furden is looking at doing.
As
chief financial officer for Tri-Signal Integration Inc., a Sylmar-based "open
shop" - or non-union - electrical contracting firm, Furden is bracing for the
spread of union-sponsored project labor agreements on local public works
projects. That will leave him with what he sees as an unenviable choice: pay
more out-of-pocket or pass up dozens of contract opportunities.
"Either
way, this hurts our bottom line," Furden said.
Allen Wilson is exactly the kind of person who would like another Bush term. I applaud the SGV...