Barack Obama and his administration are about to significantly drive up the costs of federal building construction. This is an astonishing reach. The Office of Management and Budget has directed that any federal construction over $25 million benefit unions.
The order would make all federal construction projects 10-20% more expensive by requiring all contractors to either use union workers or apply inefficient union apprenticeship and work rules to their employees. Contractors would also be required to make contributions to union pension funds and other union programs that non-union workers will never benefit from.
This will hugely drive up the cost of construction of federal buildings and line the pockets of unions without even having union workers involved in the projects. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that only 15.6% of private construction workers in America belong to unions. In other words, 8 out of 10 construction workers in America will be legally denied the right to work on federal building projects.
I suppose it’s pretty easy to increase the costs of construction during a recession when it’s someone else’s money you’re spending. And nothing like lining the pockets of union bosses even if the workers don’t see an extra dime. Welcome to the age of Hope and Change.
Thanks for such an great article.Welcome to the administration of Barack Obama.I think that people have elected him as the president of US and now it’s his time to give the returns of the votes which he has recieved and this what he is doing.Non- union workers have to be at home and nothing else can be done by them.
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Pres Obama shuts out NON-UNION workers.
That’s illegal bias discrimination and intimidation by Obama and Unions to force ALL construction workers to be unionized. [will get him lots of union votes] but still illegal.
So many unemployed construction workers even UNION WORKERS, YET China building new San Francisco bridge from SFO to Oakland – and building 7 schools in America [while USG sends $12B to Afghanistan to build roads & schools AGAIN and after bombing of those roads & schools USG sends money again to REBUILD] even tho CHINA builds schools in America WHY?
[see article link below] it shows HOW China taking USA construction jobs.
http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/columns/fullermoney-markets/5769/new-san-francisco-bridge-built-in-china-to-be-shipped-to-us-fullermoney-5769.html
[last year Obama allowed China to buy Texas Oil Leases not Gulf oil land-side OIL]
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