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Obama reverses Bush order that
banned project labor agreements
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President
Barack Obama has signed an executive
order overturning the Bush Administra-
tion’s ban on project labor agreements
(PLAs) on federal and federally funded
construction projects.
The ban was one of the first orders
signed by Bush when he took office.
“The Bush anti-PLA executive order
was exactly the type of special interest-
driven politics and policy thatAmerican
voters rejected overwhelmingly last No-
vember,” said Mark Ayers, president of
the AFL-CIO Building and Construc-
tion Trades Department. “We acknowl-
edge and praise this executive order as
being one of the first steps in ushering in
a new, more pragmatic and value-con-
scious approach to governing.”
Project labor agreements generally
set wages and establish work rules and
methods of settling grievances on large
multi-contractor construction projects.
For more than 70 years before the Bush
order, project labor agreements bene-
fited communities, employers and
workers by ensuring fair wages and
benefits and on-time completion of
projects.
Ayers says project labor agreements
provide maximum benefit to construc-
tion users; union and nonunion work-
ers; union and nonunion contractors;
lenders and insurance companies; and
taxpayers. They are frequently negoti-
ated to address a wide range of local and
social needs, including the assurance of
hiring of local residents, and outreach
programs designed to offer local resi-
dents the opportunity for a career in the
skilled trades.
This action follows Obama’s three
previous executive orders that reversed a
trio of Bush-era orders governing the
way federal contractors deal with union
workers. The new orders:
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• Require federal service contractors
to offer jobs to current workers when
contracts change.
• Reverse a Bush order requiring fed-
eral contractors to post notice that work-
ers can limit financial support of unions
serving as their exclusive bargaining
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• Prevent federal contractors from
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“We have to reverse many of the
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