Levelset

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A project labor agreement, or PLA, is a prehire collective bargaining agreement that sets the wages and benefits for all workers on a project. This could affect $262 billion in federal government construction contracting as well as nearly 200,000 workers on federal construction contracts. What is a project labor agreement?

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 22, 2015

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.

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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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Best Practices Construction Law

MAY 20, 2016

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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