Stephen Dinan,Washington Times
Obama at White House with Paul Volcker
President Obama on Friday quietly signed an executive order pushing federal construction projects to favor union workers,undoing yet another Bush administration labor rule and generating criticism of political “payback.”
The order –a substantial boost to unions –says government contractors should favorably consider “project labor agreements,”which carve out jobs for union workers. It overturns President Bush’s 2001 order banning PLAs,which had overturned a Clinton order,which had overturned an order from President George H.W. Bush.