It is never a good idea for the government to choose winners based on membership in the workplace. This harms not only the taxpayers who pay the price, but also the serious businesses and their hard-working employees, who have no chance of earning work on government projects. In Connecticut, you don`t need to look far to see the PLA projects that have been created on budget and occasionally with the local workforce. Some of them: (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of a general statute, regulation or requirement for the purchase of goods or services, a public body may require a project work contract for each public works project when such a public body has determined, by project and within its discretion, that it is in the public interest to require such an agreement. This finding allows the public body to consider the impact that a project work contract can have on (1) the efficiency, costs and direct and indirect economic benefits to the public body; (2) the availability of a skilled workforce for the completion of the public works project; (3) Avoid construction delays; (4) the safety and quality of the public works project; (5) the promotion of business in minorities and women; and (6) employment opportunities for the Community. „THE AEPs effectively prevent skilled local workers and contractors from having a fair chance to work on public projects that are paid for with taxpayers` money,“ Fryxell said. A project-labor agreement (PLA) is a discriminatory practice that requires contractors to recognize a union as the sole representative of its employees in a project. Often, the language of a PLA requires that contracters of union premises or their employees be required to hire to join the union; Paying union wages and dues and contributing to union performance plans; archaic labour rules and job classifications. „Our estimates show that taxpayers would have saved $503.463 million, or more than $9.681 million per project, if the AEPs had not been used,“ the study says. There are thousands of qualified open shop contractors in Connecticut, with a great reputation for quality, skill and safety.
Connecticut taxpayers do not benefit from the exclusion of these companies from the government`s tender. In developing appeals pursuant to this section, the delegate must include contractual obligation requirements in selected bids requiring (A) the payment of pay equal to or greater than the wages of workers, workers and mechanics who carry out construction work within the project in the United States, as described in Section 31-53 of the General Statutes , and (B) requiring some bidders to negotiate a project contract in good faith. Each invitation issued in accordance with this section sets out the minimum conditions to be met in project work contracts. One of the instruments for securing labour rights is the Labor Agreement Project (PLA). Public order may require contractors to enter into such agreements in their proposals. For example, Connecticut`s latest Public Act 19-71 for the purchase of offshore wind power requires developers to pay the prevailing wages, negotiate project work contracts and include plans for the use of skilled workers and approved apprenticeship programs.
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