Oppose Administration’s Push to Restrict New Highway Capacity

Would Temporarily Eliminate the 18 Cents per Gallon Federal Gas Tax

Allows Congress More Time to Negotiate Full-Year Bill, Including Funding for New Infrastructure Programs

On February 7, the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment released its report on encouraging the federal government to promote the value of labor unions and making government contractors’ employees aware of their rights to join a labor union. Many of the nearly 70 findings in the report are similar to policy recommendations and actions already being undertaken by the Biden Administration, such as efforts to enforce misclassification of independent contractors, preferences for government-mandated project labor agreements, local hire requirements on federal construction projects, and more.

The recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allows states or localities to implement a local hiring preference on federal-aid highway and transit projects. Such was already the case prior to passage of IIJA through a U.S. DOT pilot program. However, as part of that pilot program, the grant recipient was forced to certify that there was:

Ends Secret Ballot in Union Organizing elections (Card Check), Forced CBA Arbitration and More
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress and the President to Oppose Government-Mandated PLAs
Agencies are working on the fourth and fifth versions in play since 2015