Florida Restricts Local Government Mandates on Public Construction
Missouri Passes Law Restricting Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements
Project Labor Agreements Raise Costs on Ohio Schools 13 Percent, Study Finds
A Win For Taxpayers and Free Enterprise: Wisconsin Is 23rd State to Pass Law Restricting Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements
Iowa Law Restricts Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements, Protects Hawkeye State Construction Industry
House Committee Passes Fair and Open Competition Act Targeting Federal Project Labor Agreement Mandates
Coalition to House: Champion Bill Reforming Unfair Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreement Schemes
Coalition to Senate: Cosponsor Bill Restricting Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements
ABC Backs Bill Targeting Costly Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreement Schemes
Obama’s Pro-Project Labor Agreement Executive Order Promotes Waste on Federally Assisted Construction Contracts. Rescind it.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Construction Union Membership Increased Slightly
2017 Update: ABC’s Fight Against Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements
This week the merit shop contracting community hit an important legislative milestone in its campaign for fair and open competition in government contracting. ABC issued a press release Tuesday applauding the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for favorably reporting out of committee the Fair and Open Competition Act (H.R. 1552), introduced in the 115th Congress by […]
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 (PLA) on a federal contract for the Advanced Munitions Technology Complex at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to […]
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 (PLA) on a $112 million single award task order contract for construction for the intelligence community within the state of Colorado, and possibly across the continental United States […]
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 (PLA) on a federal contract for large-scale construction projects within the Baltimore-Washington corridor. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to this PLA survey. Tell USACE […]
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 (PLA) on construction for the Design-Bid-Build NNSA Albuquerque Complex in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to this PLA survey. Tell […]
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 (PLA) on a federal contract for large scale construction projects at Buckley Air Force Base in Denver, CO. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to […]
A diverse coalition of construction industry associations and employer groups sent a letter to the United States House of Representatives March 16 opposing government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) and anti-competitive PLA preferences used by federal agencies as a result of President Obama’s pro-PLA Executive Order 13502 and related regulations. The letter asks House members to cosponsor the Fair and Open Competition Act (H.R. 1552), […]
A diverse coalition of construction industry associations and employer groups sent a letter to the United States Senate March 14 opposing government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) and anti-competitive PLA preferences used by federal agencies as a result of President Obama’s pro-PLA Executive Order 13502 and related regulations. The letter asks Senators to cosponsor the Fair and Open Competition Act (S. 622), introduced in the 115thCongress […]
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) issued a press release in support of Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-Ariz.) Fair and Open Competition Act (FOCA) (S. 622). As described in the press release below and in Senator Flake’s press release, S. 622 will prohibit federal agencies and recipients of federal funding from mandating project labor agreements (PLAs) or using PLA preferences during […]
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 (PLA) on construction to expand the Western Currency Facility Production and Access in Fort Worth, Texas. TheTruthAboutPLAs.com encourages the merit shop contracting community to respond to this PLA survey. […]