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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 Applauds GSA Decision To End Union-Only Contracting Schemes on Land Port of Entry Construction

Associated Builders and Contractors celebrated a Feb. 12 policy shift by the U.S. General Services Administration that will restore merit-based competition for infrastructure contracts to build land port of entry projects procured by the GSA. “The GSA’s new policy eliminates former President Joe Biden’s controversial rule requiring anti-competitive, inflationary, union-favoring project labor agreements on federal construction…
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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 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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Jillian Stengel
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ABC Applauds Introduction of Legislation To Promote Fair and Open Competition and Combat Anti-Competitive and Inflationary Project Labor Agreement Mandates

Associated Builders and Contractors today voiced its strong support for the Fair and Open Competition Act (H.R. 1209 / S. 537), which has been reintroduced in the 118th Congress by Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., in the U.S. Senate, and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., in the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 27.…
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