PLAs Block Minority- and Women-Owned Firms
PLAs stop merit shops from bidding, and most minority- and women-owned construction companies are merit shop. It's really that simple....
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- Apr 1
- 4 min
Bill Overreaches by Extending Prevailing Wage to Prefab Facilities
Prefabrication offers the end-user high-quality components assembled in a safe, climate-controlled facility without the delays caused by...
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- Feb 16
- 1 min
Why Pay to PLAy?
PLAs are not a sound practice for anyone starting a building project. Supporters of PLAs, including President Biden, ignore the basic...
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- Jan 25
- 1 min
Braintree Saved $1 Million by Losing Court Battle Over PLA
The taxpayers saved more than $1 million in construction costs as a result of the lawsuit brought by MCA and industry allies against the...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 2 min
Sparks Fly As Observers Call Out 'Lack of Diversity' in Organized Labor
For all the talk about diversity on the job site, a recent New York Times report suggests organized labor is not delivering. "Can...
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- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
Judge Issues Injunction to Block Braintree's Anti-Merit Shop Policy
'I ISSUE A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION requiring the Town of Braintree to open the South Middle School project for rebid without including a...
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- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
Mass. House Endorses Job Discrimination - Again
With a vote of 130-30, the Mass. House of Representatives voted with the required 2/3s majority to override Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of...
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- Jun 11, 2021
- 1 min
Ongoing Harassment, Nothing New
When non-union contractors win bids on public projects, they can find themselves targeted by union-backed organizations making all sorts...
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- Jun 4, 2021
- 1 min
Senator Warren All-In on Invading Worker Privacy, Using Coercive Tactics
This is what you get when you ask Senator Elizabeth Warren to consider the many, many negatives of the so-called "PRO Act." It is...
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- May 25, 2021
- 1 min
Gov. Baker Vetoes PLA Mandate
Governor Charlie Baker today line-item vetoed the PLA mandate from the Holyoke Soldiers' Home construction bond bill. This was a win for...
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- May 24, 2021
- 2 min
MCA Urges Line-Item Veto of PLA, a Systemic Barrier to Fair Competition
The Massachusetts Legislature has passed a bill that will stop minority-, women- and veteran-owned contractors from bidding on public...
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- Apr 16, 2021
- 1 min
Boston Herald: Diversity Ownership Colliding with Organized Labor on PLA
A Boston Herald editorial points out that union-backing lawmakers often call for increased participation of minority- and women-owned...
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- Apr 13, 2021
- 11 min
PLAs Block Minority & Women Contractors
The MCA weighed in against a proposed project labor agreement on a new $400 million Holyoke Soldiers' Home. Why is it that lawmakers,...
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- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
PLAs hurt jobsite diversity
We've long argued that blocking 80+% of the construction workforce from bidding and working reduces jobsite diversity. It's a point the...
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- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
'Radical Rewrite of American Labor Law'
The "PRO Act" is the euphemistic acronym for the euphemistically named "Protecting the Right to Organize Act." "The PRO Act is one of the...
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- Mar 5, 2021
- 1 min
Merit Shops Employed 83.5% of MA Construction Workforce in 2020
The 2020 stats are in on the Massachusetts construction workforce. Per www.unionstats.com, 83.5% of construction workers in...
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- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
'Open shops are 20-30 percent less expensive than union shops'
Merit shop contractors offer many benefits to their clients over what their union competitors provide. Maximizing construction dollars...
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- Dec 19, 2020
- 1 min
After hiatus, the PLA may be back ...
The Project Labor Agreement has been out of favor for a while on the federal and state level. Sure, there are a few here and there in...
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- Oct 14, 2020
- 2 min
Union official: 'PLAs aren't in the best interest of taxpayers'
This took guts. A construction union official is publicly calling for the elimination of union-only project labor agreements. He says...
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- Sep 14, 2020
- 6 min
Please, Pawtucket Pass on PLAs
The following is the text of a letter sent Sept. 14 to the Pawtucket, RI, school committee arguing against the imposition of a union-only...
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