The Truth About Project Labor Agreements

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Los Angeles District has issued two surveys soliciting comments from the construction industry about the potential use of government-mandated project labor agreements (PLA) for projects in Norco, California, and at Edwards Air Force Base.

ABC National encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to these PLA surveys. Tell USACE government-mandated PLAs reduce competition, increase costs, and impede the economy and efficiency of government contracting.

To review and respond to the Lower Norco Bluffs survey, click here. Survey responses to Notice ID W912PL20B0005 should be sent via email to Mr. Michael G. Robinson at [email protected] no later than January 8, 2021.

To review and respond to Edwards Air Force Base survey, click here. Survey responses to Notice ID W912PL21S0004  should be sent via email to Ms. Lucia A Carvajal at [email protected] no later than Jan. 20, 2021.

Attached are templates contractors can customize to help with their response. Before submission, please rename the documents with your company name, pay close attention to the highlighted text and customize as much as possible.

Please forward ABC Vice President, Regulatory, Labor & State Affairs Ben Brubeck ([email protected]) communications to USACE in case ABC National needs to take additional steps to defeat a PLA mandate on this contract.

ABC is Leading the Fight Against Government-Mandated PLAs in Federal Contracting

USACE and other federal agencies have issued hundreds of similar project labor agreement surveys requesting information about the potential use of PLAs on specific construction projects across the country as a result of regulations and federal agency policies stemming from President Obama’s pro-government-mandated PLA Executive Order 13502, which encourages federal agencies to mandate PLAs on a case-by-case basis for federal construction projects exceeding $25 million in total cost.

TheTruthAboutPLAs.com has taken the opportunity to respond to all PLA surveys as they are issued and encourages the merit shop contracting community to do the same. Responding with accurate and timely information is critical and effective at creating more work for qualified merit shop contractors and their skilled employees. Due to our collective advocacy, none of these projects have had PLAs mandated on them.

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