Talking at a press conference in Stuttgart, Germany, United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on February 11, ordered the Department of Defense Agencies to eliminate the language that requires work agreements in all contracts of more than $ 35 million and update and update Review all existing contracts accordingly.
The Undersecretary of Defense John Tenaglia, who is responsible for federal contracts operations, followed the announcement with a memorandum that instructs all agencies in the Department that “immediately contracting officers will not use the work agreements of work. Project for large -scale construction projects “and that” contracting officers will modify applications to eliminate the requirements of the project’s employment contract, including the provisions of application and the contract clauses “.
Plan are agreements between work and contractors that generally exempt non -union workers to be able to participate in these projects. The mandate of the Biden Administration Plan had required them in most federal projects, but a federal claim court annulled the rule of Biden’s time. The general associated contractors of America presented the legal strategy of challenging the rule through protests of the offers. The Trump Administration Department of Justice promised to eliminate the same mandate of 12 projects that are the subject of the protest approach to the offer that was prepared at the request of the AGC.
“The announcement that the United States Department of Defense will leave the project of the project’s working agreement of its military construction applications is a clear sign that our approach works,” said Jeffrey Shoaf, CEO. of the AGC, which represents approximately one third union and two -the companies of members of the open store, in a statement. “We hope that all the federal agencies involved in the hiring of construction services will follow the same and clearly leave what is clearly an illegal mandate of their construction applications.”
SHOAF also said that AGC would continue to talk to the Trump administration about the need to revoke the executive order of the Biden Plan mandate and the federal acquisition rules to eliminate any remaining ambiguity. Associated builders and contractors, which is mainly a non -union construction association, said that it would continue to promote a similar clarity to the federal construction market.
“ABC has struggled hard to restore just and open competition based on merits in federal hiring, so that all Americans and all qualified construction companies can compete in a pitch to build and rebuild America,” he Dir Ben Brubeck, Vice President of the Regulation of the ABC and state affairs, in a statement. “Although we are satisfied with the change in DOD policy, ABC will continue to effortlessly defend that this proposal policy is adopted throughout the government permanently.”
A little characteristic for the President of Outdopart Trump, his administration had not made political decisions or mentions of Pla in his campaign or at any time. Trump enjoyed the sufficient support of the union members to win enough homes in states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio to resume the White House in November and his election for the Labor Secretary, former Oregon representative Lori Chavez -Deteruer the Republican President, as Chavez-Deremer, is generally considered to be pro-Laboral, having represented a strong union district in Congress.
Representatives of the unions of the building of North America – the group of umbrellas representing various construction unions – did not immediately respond to comments on the defense note.
The Senate of the United States has not yet been confirmed for Chavez-Deremer, so the action of Hegseth and Tenaglia is the first by a federal agency to change Biden Pla’s mandate. DOD agencies, such as the Naval Systems Systems Command, based in San Diego, had already notified staff to eliminate the plan of all applications on February 11.
