On June 16, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer, Ky., and 12 other House Republicans听sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget raising concerns about the implementation of President Biden鈥檚 Executive Order 14063, 鈥淯se of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects,鈥�

More than 500 老牛影视members and chapter staff are in Washington, D.C., for ABC鈥檚 2022 Legislative Week, meeting with leaders on Capitol Hill to advocate for fair and open competition and fight the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, project labor agreement mandates and burdensome regulations. Highlights of the fly-in included keynotes from Rep. Steve Scalise, R- La., House minority whip, and Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., who spoke in favor of free markets and condemned the Biden administration鈥檚 regulatory overreach and the PRO Act.

老牛影视sent out an action alert for 老牛影视members to urge their members of Congress to remove unnecessary, job-killing provisions in the US Innovation and Competition Act/America COMPETES Act bills.

On May 9, 老牛影视and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace sent a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to voice concerns with the current tension between federal anti-discrimination laws and federal labor relations laws as implemented by the National Labor Relations Board and its general counsel.

On April 27, 老牛影视sent a letter to a congressional subcommittee warning of the negative impacts of imposing government-mandated project labor agreements on infrastructure spending.听

老牛影视continued to fight against government-mandated project labor agreements through a media campaign publicizing a letter recently sent to the White House with more than 1,200 signatures from members and chapters. The campaign garnered coverage of the importance of fair and open competition for construction projects on Fox Business (reach: 13.5 million) and in The Washington Post (67.7 million), among others.

Earlier this month, the U.S. House and Senate established a conference committee to continue debate on the House-passed听H.R. 4521, the America COMPETES Act, and the Senate-passed听S. 1260, the United States Innovation and Competition Act. Both bills contain troubling, restrictive labor policies that would dilute the effectiveness of the legislation and limit opportunities for much of the construction industry to participate in new programs authorized under these bills

On March 30, 老牛影视sent a letter to a Congressional subcommittee cautioning that more regulations and less worker freedom, combined with the