Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Fbx) on February 19th introduced HB 391, which parallels SB 276, discussed several days ago. The bills would, if enacted, give each individual employee working on state-financed PLA’s (including the natural gas pipeline) the option of directing his or her fringe benefit contributions to either the current employer’s plan, another employer’s plan, or the plan […]
Senators Lyda Green and Con Bundy have introduced SB 276, which would give each employee working on certain Project Labor Agreement sites the option to receive fringe benfits from either his or her current employer, another employer of the employee, or the union that negotiated the PLA.
SB 276 would apply to AGIA and to PLA’s under Title […]
Judicial vacancies: Ketchikan Superior Court Judge Michael Thompson will not run for retention.
Barrow Superior Court Judge Michael Jeffery is sitting pro tem until the Judicial Council fills the seat vacated by the Supreme Court. The applicants are Jeffery, Rosemary (”Poke”) Haffner of Fairbanks, and Steven D. Smith of Anchorage.
TransCanada AGIA application: The full text is available […]
The five conforming bidders for the Natural Gas Pipeline signed on to the employment-related provisions of sections 15 and 17 of AGIA. ConocoPhillips, on the other hand, submitted a non-conforming bid, but one which included some promises with regard to Alaska employment.
Section VII of CP’s 115-page proposal addresses “Labor.” (Pp. 49-50) In that section, CP notes that […]
Attorney General Tallis Colberg has opined that AGIA (the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act), including its Alaska hire provisions, is constitutional. As to the labor provisions, the AG’s June 5th opinion emphasizes flexibility inserted into the final version (”to the maximum extent permitted by law”) and, as to the training program, advises the state to be careful […]
On May 15th, the Alaska Senate accepted the House’s version of the AGIA bill. With two exceptions, the text of the bill, as it pertains to labor issues, is identical to that discussed earlier. In both sections 15 (local hire) and 17 (project labor agreement) of AS 43.90.130, legislators added the word “maximum” to the phrase “to the extent […]
The current version of the proposed Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (CSSB 104(Jud)), in section 15 of proposed AS 43.90.130, requires all applicants, “to the extent permitted by law,” to
(A) hire qualified residents from throughout the state for management, engineering, construction, operations, maintenance, and other positions on the proposed project;
(B) contract with businesses located in the […]
