Baltimore CLC Cancels Conference After Caesars Rejects PLA

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The Metropolitan Baltimore Council has canceled the 2013 Leadership Conference in Atlantic City to demonstrate its solidarity with the Maryland Building and Construction Trades in response to Caesars refusal to enter into a Project Labor Agreement (see Vance Ayres' "The case for project labor agreements") in Baltimore. “Baltimore becomes the only city on the East Coast where Caesars Entertainment Corporation will build its casino with non-union labor,” says Baltimore CLC President Ernie Grecco. “I believe this is an insult to every union member in the metropolitan Baltimore area.” The Baltimore Council’s Executive Board and delegates in December voted unanimously to cancel the conference after Caesars and Whiting & Turner Contracting refused to use union labor to build the casino in Baltimore.