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

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A project labor agreement, or PLA, is a prehire collective bargaining agreement that sets the wages and benefits for all workers on a project. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) prohibits prehire agreements in any other industry , and a 1993 Supreme Court decision ruled that union-only prehire agreements were allowed under the NLRA.

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Industry Focus: Aerospace Sector Is Flying High Again

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A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Aerospace and defense sector companies paid $7.7

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Deal of the Decade

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Industry analysts view the RFP as a last-ditch effort to break the deadlock and bring the union back to the bargaining table. Last month, the Machinists rejected 777X-related concessions Boeing maintains are essential to keeping production in Washington, including deep cuts to pension and health benefits. Far West U.S. Plains U.S.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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The success of that strategy, as well as a sincere and long-standing commitment to industry innovation, community service, the environment, and collaboration with local government—the upshot of which is a 90% customer satisfaction rating and $620.3 Local home builders are vital to our industry.