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Andrew DeVito
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ABC Denounces Special Interests for Suing Trump Administration To Block Fair and Open Competition

Associated Builders and Contractors today voiced its strong opposition to North America’s Building Trades Unions’ filing of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration, seeking to reinstate project labor agreement mandates on certain U.S. Department of Defense and General Service Administration construction contracts over $35 million. “NABTU’s misguided decision to file a…
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Andrew DeVito
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ABC: Victory for Taxpayers and Construction Industry as Court Rules Biden’s Project Labor Agreement Policy Is Illegal

Associated Builders and Contractors today celebrated a decision from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that rules in favor of ABC members that filed bid protests challenging former President Joe Biden’s controversial policy requiring anti-competitive, inflationary, union-favoring project labor agreements on federal construction projects of $35 million or more. Judge Ryan T.…
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Andrew DeVito
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Construction Coalition to President-Elect Trump: Fair and Open Competition for Infrastructure Projects Will Save Taxpayers More Than $10 Billion Annually

Associated Builders and Contractors and a diverse group of two dozen construction and business groups today sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump urging him to eliminate President Joe Biden’s final rule implementing Executive Order 14063 requiring federal construction contracts of $35 million or more to be subjected to anti-competitive and inflationary project labor agreements. The coalition…
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Andrew DeVito
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ABC Hails US Senate for Blocking McFerran’s Confirmation as Labor Board Chair

Associated Builders and Contractors today issued the following statement applauding the U.S. Senate for voting down the confirmation of Lauren McFerran to a third term as chair of the National Labor Relations Board, 49-50. “McFerran’s tenure has been the subject of multiple congressional hearings, oversight investigations and press reports highlighting…
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Andrew DeVito
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ABC Returns to Court To Fight DOL’s New Unlawful Overtime Rule

Associated Builders and Contractors today announced the filing of a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s controversial final rule, Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees, which will change overtime regulations under the Fair…
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Andrew DeVito
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ABC Slams President Biden’s Veto of Congressional Resolution to Nullify NLRB Joint Employer Rule

Associated Builders and Contractors today issued the following statement criticizing President Joe Biden’s veto of H.J. Res 98, the Joint Employer Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval, which would have nullified the ABC-opposed rule issued by the National Labor Relations Board in 2023 and prevented promulgation of a similar rule in the future.…
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Andrew DeVito
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ABC: Final OSHA Worker Walkaround Rule Is Bad Policy, Does Not Prioritize Workplace Safety

Associated Builders and Contractors today issued the following statement opposing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process final rule, which allows employees to choose a third-party representative, such as an outside union representative or community organizer, to accompany an OSHA safety inspector into nonunion workplaces during site inspections. “Now,…
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Andrew DeVito
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ABC Files Lawsuit Against President Biden’s Anti-Competitive Project Labor Agreement Rule for Federal Construction Projects

Associated Builders and Contractors and its Florida First Coast chapter filed suit today in federal court to stop the Biden administration’s unlawful scheme to mandate project labor agreements on construction contracts procured by federal agencies. ABC’s complaint asserts that President Joe Biden lacks the legal and constitutional authority to impose a new…
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