A project labor agreement, or PLA, occurs when the government awards contracts for public construction projects exclusively to unionized firms (find a more detailed definition from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation here). A PLA requires the contractors, unionized or not, to submit to unionization in order to receive the contract, and it’s an arrangement that is a “hot and divisive topic in light of many states adopting Right to Work policies,” says Wally Zimolong in a recent post.
According to Zimolong, there are two types of PLAs: one binds a nonunion contractor to a collective bargaining agreement for a specific project and is limited to one union and a specific contractor; the other, more general PLA is a government order that any contractor submitting a bid on a project must be bound by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.
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