Project labor agreements favor unions while punishing successful small non-union contractors, two business owners say. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Construction is a tough business and certainly not ...

Negotiating contracts is a process that requires preparation and communication, as all parties work toward a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s particularly true for electric utilities, groups ...

Project labor agreements and community workforce agreements are time-tested tools that can support good value and good jobs on projects funded by the new federal economic investments. The Biden ...

More than a year after the Senate Labor Committee sent a bill to repeal a ban on local project labor agreements to the floor for further consideration, members of the chamber have advanced the measure ...

The Trump administration last month narrowed its efforts to unwind a Biden-era policy aimed at promoting federal contractors’ use of unionized labor on major construction projects, after a federal ...

In February 2022, President Biden signed Executive Order 14063, Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects, which mandated the use of Project Labor Agreements (“PLA”) for ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Common Council is considering a requirement for the city to consider “project labor agreements” on all capital projects with more than $1 million in labor costs. Robert Dennison, ...

As a former president of the local building trades council, and current business manager and financial secretary of the Plumbers & Pipefitters Union, Local #104 in western Massachusetts, I can tell ...

What is a project labor agreement, and why are public officials in California so fond of them? For example, take Proposition 2. This statewide measure is a $10 billion bond for construction and ...

The U.S. General Services Administration—a major federal government property, real estate and procurement manager—will allow its Public Buildings Service to have project labor agreements on agency-run ...