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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...
Jan 25, 20221 min read


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...
Nov 16, 20212 min read


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...
Sep 16, 20213 min read


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...
Jun 30, 20213 min read


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...
Jun 11, 20211 min read


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...
Jun 4, 20211 min read


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...
May 25, 20211 min read


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...
May 24, 20212 min read


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...
Apr 16, 20211 min read


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,...
Apr 13, 202111 min read
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...
Mar 25, 20211 min read


'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...
Mar 19, 20212 min read


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...
Mar 5, 20211 min read


'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...
Feb 16, 20211 min read


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...
Dec 19, 20201 min read


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...
Oct 14, 20202 min read


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...
Sep 14, 20206 min read
Affordable Housing Loses - Again
The PLA-burdened Winthop Tower project has stalled and developers are scaling way back. As a result, the city has lost $26 million in...
Jul 17, 20201 min read


'PLAs have been anything but a benefit to the community'
The Merit Construction Alliance has long held that project labor agreements discriminate against non-union construction workers by...
Jul 14, 20202 min read


Kennedy, Markey Embrace PLAS that 'harm nonunion African American firms and construction workers'
It's easy to understand the political expedience for left-leaning politicians to embrace organized labor and project labor agreements...
Jul 9, 20202 min read
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