Construction Dive

JANUARY 22, 2015

By Bruce Jervis Project Labor Agreements are controversial. These are pre-hire agreements between a general contractor or a construction manager and a designated collective bargaining representative for all labor on the project. The court concluded there was conflicting evidence on the effect of PLAs on non-union contractors.

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Best Practices Construction Law

MAY 20, 2016

In other words, you are negotiating about who takes the risk on a particular issue. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Contract recently addressed this issue in a government contract dispute where the parties’ agreement required the contractor to pay for fuel at the prevailing rate. In DG21, LLC v.

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Levelset

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In early February 2022, President Biden signed an executive order requiring project labor agreements (PLAs) on all federal projects over $35 million. What is a project labor agreement? A project labor agreement, or PLA, is a prehire collective bargaining agreement that sets the wages and benefits for all workers on a project.

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Civil Lead

APRIL 22, 2020

Purchasing all materials also involves a lot of steps like the search for the right supplier, right quality, right price negotiation, Material delivery at site, quantity and quality verification of material delivered at site, checking bills of the materials delivered and ultimately payments and settling accounts.

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