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Do Project Labor Agreements Restrict Competition?

Construction Dive

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. Labor is not restricted to union members, although non-union labor must be hired through union halls and paid the negotiated rates. What do you think?

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Who Assumes the Risk of Material Cost Increases? As Always, It Depends!

Best Practices Construction Law

In other words, you are negotiating about who takes the risk on a particular issue. The contractor could have bargained for protection from price increases by including a price escalation clause in its proposal…but it did not. The decision in Mabus provides a few lessons.

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Labour Contract Vs Material Contract - Which Contract is Better for Constructing your House?

Civil Lead

When we are planning to construct a building or house the first question comes in our mind is we have to give a material contractor or labour contract. Whereas in the material contract all materials and labour required for the construction are supplied by the contractor. Quantity might be out of your control.

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Project Labor Agreements (PLAs): What Contractors Need to Know

Levelset

This could affect $262 billion in federal government construction contracting as well as nearly 200,000 workers on federal construction contracts. But what is a PLA, and how can it affect construction jobs and wages ? PLAs are only allowed in construction projects, both new construction and alterations.