Posted on 05/12/2018 7:48:11 PM PDT by willowsdale
A drawn-out dispute over the terms of the PLA — the project labor agreement — covering the construction of a new terminal at the Kansas City International Airport is now threatening to delay the planned demolition of the airport’s current Terminal A this fall and the subsequent construction work scheduled to begin in 2019. On one side of the impasse are Missouri construction union bosses. They are demanding that every single frontline job on the KCI project be unionized, and that all workers be forced to pay union dues or fees in order to participate. This big labor demand is overt and unabashed. “There’s no reason this shouldn’t be a 100 percent union job,” a spokesman for the St. Louis-Kansas City Carpenters’ Regional Council told a Star reporter in January. “No reason whatsoever.”
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Cancel the project. Problem solved! Kansas City has long been mob run. They managed to put one of their own crooks, Harry Truman, in the White House.
New terminal at KCI has always been about a payday for the unions. That has driven the entire project from day one.
heh heh heh heh... 100% Pauly could arrange things
If the union bosses keep insisting then, yes, Edgemoor very well may just walk away.
There’s absolutely no reason to build a new airport. Thank God I live across the state line. Waste of money and unnecessary.
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