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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...