Unions Extensively Interfere with California Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Permitting

By Kevin Dayton
07/20/2013
Earlier this week, www.UnionWatch.org posted the article Did Unions Hasten Demise of California’s Solar Thermal Power Plants? For the first time, the public can examine a comprehensive compilation of specific evidence showing how construction trade unions have exploited the state’s environmental protection laws to impede licensing of proposed solar thermal power plants at the California Energy Commission. But what about proposed solar photovoltaic power...

TAGS: California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE), CEQA Reform, Did Unions Hasten Demise of California’s Solar Thermal Power Plants?, Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local Union No. 1184, Project Labor Agreements

Did Unions Hasten Demise of California’s Solar Thermal Power Plants?

By Kevin Dayton
07/16/2013
Below is the first organized compilation of documents showing what appears to be an aggressive, deliberate union campaign to impede government approval of solar thermal power projects in California. (Organized documentation of extensive union interference with government approval of more traditional solar photovoltaic power projects in California will be released soon.) These innovative proposed solar...

TAGS: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants, Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, California Energy Commission, California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE), Greenmail, Labor Coalition’s Tactics on Renewable Energy Projects Are Criticized, Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local Union No. 1184

Collect Them All: Environmental Objections of California Unions in 2013

By Kevin Dayton
06/25/2013
Attendees of the annual leftist “Netroots Nation” conference in San Jose, California on June 20-23, 2013 had ample opportunities to learn how to use the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to advance the labor union political agenda. They could have attended a June 22 panel (CEQA: An Example of Linking Environmental and Labor Movements) on how...

TAGS: Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE), Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local Union No. 1184, Laborers Union (LIUNA) Local No. 783, Santa Clara-San Benito Building and Construction Trades Council