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...

When non-union contractors win bids on public projects, they can find themselves targeted by union-backed organizations making all sorts...

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...

Governor Charlie Baker today line-item vetoed the PLA mandate from the Holyoke Soldiers' Home construction bond bill. This was a win for...

The Massachusetts Legislature has passed a bill that will stop minority-, women- and veteran-owned contractors from bidding on public...

A Boston Herald editorial points out that union-backing lawmakers often call for increased participation of minority- and women-owned...

The MCA weighed in against a proposed project labor agreement on a new $400 million Holyoke Soldiers' Home. Why is it that lawmakers,...

We've long argued that blocking 80+% of the construction workforce from bidding and working reduces jobsite diversity. It's a point the...

The "PRO Act" is the euphemistic acronym for the euphemistically named "Protecting the Right to Organize Act." "The PRO Act is one of the...

The 2020 stats are in on the Massachusetts construction workforce. Per www.unionstats.com, 83.5% of construction workers in...

Merit shop contractors offer many benefits to their clients over what their union competitors provide. Maximizing construction dollars...

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...

This took guts. A construction union official is publicly calling for the elimination of union-only project labor agreements. He says...

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...

The PLA-burdened Winthop Tower project has stalled and developers are scaling way back. As a result, the city has lost $26 million in...

The Merit Construction Alliance has long held that project labor agreements discriminate against non-union construction workers by...

It's easy to understand the political expedience for left-leaning politicians to embrace organized labor and project labor agreements...

Safety Standards Will Guide Four-Phase Reopening [Story Developing] The first wave of businesses shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic could...

The state's Reopening Advisory Board is inviting public comment on four key questions here. "On April 28, Governor Baker announced the...

While Governor Baker has identified construction as an essential service during the state of emergency, contractors are taking steps to...