Job targeting programs, also known as market recovery funds, are designed to drive nonunion contractors out of specific markets and out of business.
Using job targeting, unions collect worker fees to pay wage subsidies to selected contractors. The subsidies in turn give those contractors an unfair bidding advantage on projects. The practice is fundamentally unfair, and should be against the law.
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On April 2, 2009, ABC announced a study published by George Mason University’s John M. Olin Institute for Employment Practice and Policy, which found that construction industry unions spent since fiscal year 2000 to engage in contract bidding schemes known as job targeting.
In addition to this staggering number, the study also reported that:
- Job targeting programs needlessly increase public construction costs.
- Job targeting programs give unions and their subsidy recipients an unfair advantage in the bidding process.
- Job targeting programs are often unknowingly funded by taxpayers.
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