Tag: PLA
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Battery Park City inks PLA for $1.7B NYC resiliency project
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Construction on a $1.7 billion resiliency megaproject in New York City will advance following a project labor agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council. Delivered through a joint venture of New York City-based Turner…
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PLA use didn’t increase project costs, Illinois study finds
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Project labor agreements in Illinois did not have a statistically significant effect on projects’ construction costs, as the award amounts for winning bids were not higher on PLA projects compared to those without PLAs, after accounting for…
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Trades group sues federal government over PLA exemption
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A construction union group filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday against two federal agencies and their chiefs for ignoring a still-in-effect executive order from former President Joe…
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Judge rules against federal PLA mandate
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A U.S. Federal Claims judge has ruled in favor of a group of construction companies that filed protests against the implementation of former President Joe Biden’s December 2023 executive order that mandated project labor agreements…