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 the federal contracts operations, followed the announcement with a memorandum that instructed the agencies that “effectively effective, contracting officers will not use the labor agreements of the project for projects for projects. of large -scale construction “and that” the contracting officers must be modified the applications to eliminate the requirements of the project’s employment contract, including the request provisions 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 had required them in most federal projects, but a federal complaint court of January annulled the rule of the Biden era in two DOD agencies, the Corps of Engineers D ‘United States Army Engineers Engineers and the General Services of the United States and the General Services of the United States Administration, but is still valid for other federal agencies. The command, based in San Diego, had already notified staff to eliminate the requirements of all applications on February 11.
The general associated contractors of America presented the legal strategy to challenge the rule through protests of the offers. The Trump Administration has promised to eliminate the same mandate of 12 projects that are subject to the AGC offer protest approach.
“The announcement that the United States Department of Defense will leave the project of the labor agreement of projects of its applications for military construction is a clear sign that our approach works,” said Jeffrey Shoaf. ‘Agc in a statement. The group represents approximately one third union and two third companies of members of the open store. “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 mandate and the federal acquisition rules to eliminate any remaining ambiguity. Associated builders and contractors, with mostly non -union members, said that it would continue to promote 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 said that it still argues to eliminate the mandate “throughout the government.”
Representatives of the unions of the building of North America – the group of umbrellas representing various construction unions – did not immediately respond to the requests for comments on the note of the Department of Defense.
In what some observers say that it seems a bit characteristic, Trump had not made political decisions or mentions related to the agreements of his campaign since the election. He had the sufficient support of the union members to win enough votes in states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio to win the election, as well as his election for the Labor Secretary, a former Oregon House. -Demerremer, the President is generally considered for a Republican, he is generally pro-labor and having represented a strong union district in Congress.
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