Diversity is one of many imagined benefits touted by proponents of project labor agreements and apprenticeship mandates. It's a cynical claim when you consider the practical impact of those two policies. PLAs lock out merit shop contractors by requiring use of only union labor rather than their own, talented employees. Apprenticeship requirements hurt contractors, often small businesses, without a state-registered program. Meanwhile, union contractors automatically comply wit

Could you imagine working on a signature construction project and then vandalizing it?That's apparently what happened on the construction site of the new Buffalo Bills stadium -- a union-only j obsite. Work ceased for a week while investigators interviewed construction workers about "pornographic and homophobic graffiti" discovered in both finished and unfinished ares of the stadium project site, according to reporting at syracuse.com . Gilbane | Turner, the construction m

Boston is already grappling with skyrocketing property taxes and a school system in fiscal distress. More than one-third of BPS seniors aren't on track to meet new core coursework requirements for graduation, jeopardizing their diplomas. Why are city leaders imposing a policy that will increase the cost of constructing the new Madison Park High School? Given the facts of the city’s and school system’s budgets, the motivation appears to be ideology over fiscal sense. The Pion

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Every late winter, an independent database that tracks union membership in the 50 states releases new numbers for the prior year. The...

The Merit Construction Alliance of Massachusetts, Inc., today issued the following statement in response to Executive Order No. 641. “The...

A recent federal court ruling striking down project labor agreements on a handful of federal projects contained clear-eyed observations...

Today, Governor Maura Healey signed into law the Economic Development bill that includes language permitting (though not requiring) the...

The Merit Construction Alliance has formally requested Governor Healey wield her veto pen and strike language from two pieces of...

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MCA submitted the following written testimony to The University of Rhode Island's Project Labor Agreement Technical Review Committee,...

"That's how we roll" said a union member picketing Vineyard Wind despite a PLA. PLAs are sold as preventing strikes, but they don't.

Merit Shops Remain Target of Job Discrimination Early this morning, the Legislature failed to pass legislation that expressly allows...

A Healey Administration analysis shows why legislation to lock out merit shops is anti-worker and anti-taxpayer.

An apprenticeship mandate on public projects would run afoul of federal law.

The MCA sent the following message to the 160 members in the Mass. House of Representatives urging them to reject a proposal to legalize...

Organized labor had asked a single justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court to review the lower court order that the Springfield Water...

A Superior Court judge today issued a preliminary injunction against the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission from proceeding with a...

Union-only project labor agreement would add $15.44 million in costs, delay the project 2.4 months, and doesn’t meet strict limits on use...