The National Labor Relations Board issued a long-awaited decision on whether it is lawful to secure labor agreements with owner/developers so that large construction projects would be built solely with union labor.
In its recent ruling with the Glens Falls (NY) Building and Construction Trades Council, the NLRB held that a labor union representing construction craft workers and the owner of an upcoming project cannot lawfully agree to require the owner’s construction contractor to sign a project labor agreement.