Fifty Republican Members of Congress and 18 Republican governors are urging President Joe Biden to withdraw the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council’s (FARC) proposal to require unionized workforces on most government-funded construction projects.
The FARC proposal implements Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 14063 that requires Project Labor Agreements (PLA) on all “major” federal construction projects. Use of a PLA in a federal contract means that only companies with unionized employees are eligible to bid and be selected for a federal project.
Biden’s EO was signed in February 2022, but the Department of Defense (DOD), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the General Services Administration (GSA), which oversees most non-defense federal acquisitions, only proposed the implementing rule in August 2022….