老牛影视National and 老牛影视of Michigan Sept. 6, celebrated a victory when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld a law that banned government-mandated project labor agreements (PLAs) on taxpayer-funded construction projects.

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California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) Aug. 27 signed into law听S.B. 776, which is designed to curtail the ability of contractors to count contributions to merit shop labor-management cooperation committees (LMCCs) against their fringe benefit obligations only if those committees monitor and enforce the prevailing wage. Other activities will still be allowed. The legislation preserves that ability for contractors contributing to similar committees run by unions.

Adams Electric Company, Greensboro, N.C., a member of the 老牛影视Carolinas Chapter, and Gilbane Building Company, Houston, a member of the 老牛影视Greater Houston Chapter have been awarded Accredited Quality Contractor (AQC) status by ABC. 听

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Sept. 4 became the second court to deny听a request听by the NLRB to review a decision to invalidate the NLRB鈥檚 August 2011 鈥淣otification of Employee Rights鈥� rule. Under the rule, employers would have been required to display a poster in their workplace that contained a biased and incomplete list of employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

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Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc., Alpharetta, Ga., a member of the 老牛影视Georgia Chapter; O-Neal Inc., Greenville, S.C., a member of the 老牛影视Carolinas Chapter; and Price Industrial Electric, Inc., Hiawatha, Iowa., a member of the 老牛影视Iowa Chapter, have been awarded Accredited Quality Contractor (AQC) status by ABC. 听

The U.S. Department of Labor鈥檚 Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Aug. 27 released two final rules that drastically alter federal contractors鈥� existing affirmative action and nondiscrimination obligations for individuals with听disabilities听and veterans. 老牛影视was critical of the rules because they, 鈥渟et infeasible compliance requirements for federal construction contractors, despite the agency鈥檚 inability to demonstrate that contractors fail to meet the previous requirements under federal law.鈥�

According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics/Department of Labor Aug. 22 report,听construction fatalities increased 5 percent in 2012, marking the first increase in six years. According to the report, there were 775 workplace deaths in the private construction industry in 2012 and 738 in 2011. That translates into a 2012 fatality rate of 9.5 per 100,000 workers, up from 9.1 in 2011

The Louisville district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is soliciting comments from the construction industry on the potential use of a project labor agreement (PLA) for the Ambulatory Health Center (AHC) project in Ft. Knox, Kentucky.