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

The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement today in response to President Biden’s new executive order seeking to impose project labor agreements on many federal construction projects:

Guidebook will assist state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments