Court Rules Against A Dozen Federal Project Labor Agreement Mandates, But Costly Biden PLA Rule Remains in Place
On Jan. 20, Associated Builders and Contractors celebrated a decision from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that rules in favor of ABC members that filed bid protests challenging former President Joe Biden’s controversial policy requiring anti-competitive, inflationary, union-favoring project labor agreements on federal construction projects of $35 million or more. Judge Ryan T. Holte’s Jan. 19 ruling in favor […]
Mass Lawmakers Give Project Labor Agreements the Green Light After Legal Defeat and Bad Press
Massachusetts lawmakers have passed legislation giving local and state government stakeholders the green light to mandate anti-competitive and costly project labor agreements on taxpayer-funded construction projects. The legislative maneuver follows a decision from a Massachusetts court that struck down a government-mandated PLA for violating state competitive bidding laws. On November 14, 2024, Massachusetts lawmakers approved […]
More Data: Project Labor Agreement Schemes Hurt Vast Majority of U.S. Construction Workforce
TheTruthAboutPLAs.com previously reported that more than 88% of the U.S. construction industry workforce does not belong to a union. Government data collected and published by UnionStats.com provides this information for each state’s construction industry workforce. How does your state rank? In More Than Half of U.S. States, at Least 90% of the Construction Workforce Does […]
BLS: A Record 88% of America’s Construction Industry Does Not Belong to a Union
According to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual Union Members Summary released Jan. 19, 2023, the percent of construction industry wage and salary workers belonging to unions dropped to a record low of 11.7%, a decline from 12.6% in 2021. Analysis of BLS data found that a historically high 88.3% of the […]
BLS: 87.4% of Construction Industry Does Not Belong to a Union
The rate of union membership in the construction industry dropped slightly in 2021, from 12.7% to 12.6%, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual union members summary report published on Jan. 20, 2022. However, construction unions added 31,000 members, growing from 993,000 in 2020 to 1.024 million in […]
Lawsuit Says Union-Signatory Contractor Excluded by Project Labor Agreement Mandated on Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission Scudder Falls Bridge
Joseph N. DiStefano, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, knows a good story about corruption and waste at the expense of hardworking taxpayers when he sees one. In a column published August 12, 2019, DiStefano takes aim at a fishy project labor agreement scheme on a bridge construction project, mandated by an interstate bridge commission, that […]
USACE New York District PLA Survey Due 4.25
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has issued a survey soliciting comments from the construction industry about the potential use of a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLAs) for the renovation and modernization of Bradley Barracks, West Point, New York. ABC National, encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to this PLA survey. Tell USACE government-mandated PLAs reduce […]
USACE Louisville District PLA Survey Due 2.28.19 – Robins Air Force Base, Georgia
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has issued a survey soliciting comments from the construction industry about the potential use of a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLAs) for the construction of an Air Force Reserve Command consolidated mission facility on Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. ABC National, encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to this PLA survey. […]
New Illinois Governor Signs Pro-PLA Executive Order
In enacting a series of executive orders, newly elected Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Executive Order 2019-02 requiring all state agencies to immediately comply with the state’s Project Labor Agreements Act. The state’s Project Labor Agreements Act requires state agencies to consider on a case-by-case basis whether PLA should be utilized on public works projects. […]
USACE New England District PLA Survey Due October 29
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has issued a survey soliciting comments from the construction industry about the potential use of a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLAs) on the construction of a new Compound Semiconductor Laboratory and Microelectronics Integration Facility on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory campus. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com, a project of ABC National, encourages the merit shop contracting […]