Unions Ramp Up Marketing Directly to Owners on PLAs

摘要

The building trades' offensive to regain market share and take the union construction message directly to owners, particularly in southern states, appears to be paying off. The AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Dept. has negotiated a project labor agreement with Richmond-based Dominion Resources Inc. on a planned liquefied-natural-gas export terminal in southern Maryland, a union spokesman confirmed on March 26. He did not elaborate on the pact's details, but the estimated $3.5-billion project is set for U.S. Energy Dept. review this month, with construction scheduled to start by early 2014, says a local report.