Summary
The term "Project Labor Agreement" or PLA is a misnomer. The term that better describes agreements which limit bidding on projects funded with tax dollars to union shops (or to non-union contractors who agree to use unionized workers), is "Protect Labor (Bosses) Agreement."
PLAs used in Pennsylvania today are a hold-over from the union movement in its heyday of the 1970s and '80. Since then, however, union membership has plummeted to roughly 15 percent of the total work force.See the full content of this document
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Level the Playing Field On Contracts
PLAs give unions a decided advantage over non-union workers, whose numbers are far greater. This imbalance is unfair.
The agreements remain in us...See the full content of this document
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