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North Branch Construction continues with GAO protest over PLA

October 8th, 2009

An update on the PLA protest in New Hampshire…

From the Examiner.com (NH):

North Branch Construction continues with GAO protest over PLA

….Ken Holmes, president of North Branch Construction, told The Examiner that “one of the requirements of the bid is that it is subject to a PLA, which very specifically requires general contractors to use exclusively union workers. But virtually every major contractor and subcontractor in New Hampshire is non-union. This basically knocks all of us out of the ballgame. We believe it’s discriminatory and violates the federal Competition in Contracting Act.”…

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Contract Discriminates Against Majority of New Hampshire’s Construction Workforce

October 6th, 2009

It appears this firm has decided to take on the unions…

From the American Surveyor (NH/DC):

Contract Discriminates Against Majority of New Hampshire’s Construction Workforce

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) member company North Branch Construction, a Concord, N.H.-based general contractor, Oct. 5 filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) against the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The complaint accuses the DOL of violating federal law by mandating the use of a project labor agreement (PLA) – a controversial contract that strongly favors union-signatory contractors, increases the cost of construction up to 18 percent, and restricts competition from nonunion contractors and their qualified workforce – in its bid specifications for the construction of a federal DOL Job Corps center in Manchester, N.H.

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