Young
U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) led a group of 42 Senate Republicans in sending a letter to President Joe Biden opposing the administration’s Executive Order that requires project labor agreements (PLAs) on federal and federally-assisted construction contracts.
“Currently, 87.4% of the U.S. construction workforce does not belong to a union,” the Senators wrote. “Mandating PLAs will prevent qualified contractors from fairly competing for contracts on taxpayer-funded projects. These mandates will also deny critical construction jobs to local workers and small businesses and increase construction costs. A fair and open bidding process for federal construction projects would guarantee the best value for hardworking taxpayers located in all geographies and regions across the United States.”
“Your administration should be designing policies that support job growth for all qualified contractors, not placing discriminatory barriers to recovery by attaching strings to infrastructure funding,” the Senators concluded.
You can read the full letter at this link.
Sen. Young is the sponsor of the Fair and Open Competition Act, which would ensure the federal government cannot mandate project labor agreements on federal projects, thereby increasing competition and saving money for taxpayers.