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Merit Shop Contractors Deliver Award-Winning Large-Scale Federal Project For NAVFAC

0 May 14, 2013  Featured, Federal Construction, Open Competition Works

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A joint venture (JV) between two quality merit shop federal contractors, Straub Construction, Inc. and Martin Harris Construction, successfully designed and built a parking facility and Bachelor Enlisted Quarters (BEQ) for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.  This large-scale design/build federal project, [...]

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Georgia Becomes the 16th State to Ban Government-Mandated PLAs on Public Construction Projects

2 May 8, 2013  Featured, State & Local Construction

2013 PLA Bans_GA

On May 6, 2013, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed S.B. 179, which will prohibit government entities in the state from requiring contractors to sign a project labor agreement (PLA) or other agreements with labor unions as a condition of performing work on public construction projects. This new law will ensure that taxpayers get the best [...]

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Nine Ways Private Owners Are Coerced By Unions Into Requiring Project Labor Agreements

0 May 6, 2013  Featured, Federal Construction, State & Local Construction

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Sometimes, private owners of energy projects, banks, retail stores, manufacturing facilities, hotels, casinos and hospitals require contractors to agree to a project labor agreement (PLA) favoring trade unions as a condition of winning a construction contract funded by private money. This is known as a private PLA mandate or a private owner-mandated PLA. A private PLA [...]

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Second Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USACE Project Labor Agreement Survey Due May 9

0 May 3, 2013  Federal Construction

HarpersFerry_WV

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Baltimore District has issued a second survey requesting feedback from the construction industry about a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a large-scale federal project constructing dormitories and a conference center for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Harpers Ferry, W. Va. The USACE has confirmed this additional PLA [...]

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Taxpayers Win Big Without Federal Project Labor Agreement on New Hampshire Job Corps Center

1 April 24, 2013  Featured, Federal Construction

Taxpayers Win Without PLAs

Taxpayers will save more than $6 million on the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Manchester, New Hampshire, Job Corps Center project thanks to the benefits of fair and open competition free from anti-competitive and costly government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs). This important example of a federal project bid with and without a PLA requirement undermines [...]

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USACE PLA Survey For Dredging Projects in SEC States Due April 26

0 April 23, 2013  Federal Construction

DREDGING

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mobile District has issued a survey requesting feedback from the construction industry about a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on large-scale federal contracts for dredging coastal and inland waterways in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. To review and respond to the survey, click here. All responses must be submitted [...]

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How Much Construction Work is Subject to Project Labor Agreements?

0 April 22, 2013  Featured, Federal Construction, State & Local Construction

A drop in the bucket

Proponents of project labor agreements (PLAs) are in the habit of overstating their use in public and private construction markets. In an April 2012 letter in support of federal government-mandated PLAs to the U.S. Department of Labor, Building Construction Trades Department (BCTD), Council Victoria L. Bor stated: “These agreements are also commonly used by states [...]

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USACE PLA Survey For Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Museum Hangar Due April 29

0 April 22, 2013  Federal Construction

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District has issued a survey requesting feedback from the construction industry about a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a large-scale construction project building a new exhibition hangar for an aviation museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. To review and respond to the survey, click [...]

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Respond to USACE Alaska Project Labor Agreement Survey By April 30

0 April 22, 2013  Federal Construction

Ft Wainwright Alaska

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Alaska District issued a survey requesting feedback from the construction industry about a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a large-scale design-build contract for a warm storage hangar at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. To review and respond to the survey, click here. Responses should be sent via email to USACE [...]

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USACE Project Labor Agreement Survey For Scott Air Force Base Construction Due April 24

0 April 22, 2013  Federal Construction

Scott AFB Map

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Louisville District issued a survey requesting feedback from the construction industry about the potential use of a government-mandated project labor agreement (PLA) on a contract to design/bid/build a  new DISA facility at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. To review and respond to the survey, click here. All responses must be [...]

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