Profiting on Disaster: NJ Senate Votes To Exclude Non-Union Construction Workers For Hurricane Sandy Work
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)?
A bill that was authored by an Ironworkers? union organizer to expand union-only Project Labor Agreements?to include Hurricane Sandy cleanup and reconstruction?passed the New Jersey Senate on Monday along party lines 23-13.
The Ironworkers? union organizer who drafted the pro-union bill, Steven Sweeney, also happens to be the president of the New Jersey Senate and recently accused New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of ?praying? for Hurricane Sandy to hit New Jersey.
As it turns out, though, unions must be counting their blessing with the New Jersey?s Senate passage of S. 2425 which adds adds to an already-existing discriminatory PLA laws in New Jersey:
??? New Jersey has had a project labor agreement law on the books since 2002, but highways, bridges, pumping stations and water and sewage treatment plants were exempted. With extensive rebuilding needed on those structures along the shore, this bill includes them.
??? Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester), who authored the legislation and fast tracked it, said the agreements are key to making sure work goes to New Jersey workers. [Emphasis added.]
A Project Labor Agreement, according to the bill, ?means a form of pre-hire collective bargaining agreement covering terms and conditions of a specific project.?
In other words, non-union construction workers are not welcome.
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