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I urge you to protect Maryland’s minority and women-owned small business enterprises (MWBE) by not supporting Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreements for public infrastructure projects across the state. The reality is, a total of 85% of minority-owned contractors are excluded from developing Maryland’s roads, bridges, schools, and hospitals when a Government-Mandated Project Labor Agreement is applied to a tax-payer-funded project.

Andrew Ginn

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Marylanders expect fairness and open competition. Mandated Project Labor Agreements lead to inequity and exclusion, hurting small and minority-owned businesses (MBE’s) and Maryland workers. PLA’s are a step backward in recent efforts to eliminate institutional barriers to racial wealth equality by enshrining practices that only make it more difficult for MBE businesses to participate. It’s time we focus on the hard-working folks that call Maryland their home. As your constituent, I urge you to put an end to mandated Project Labor Agreements (PLA’s) and keep jobs in Maryland!

Barrett Tucker

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Con eso yo perderia mi trabajo por q la compania ya no tendria trabajo para mi asi me beneficia en nada la union perderia todo mis ingresos para sobrevivir.

Jose Interiano

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I work for a company with our home office in Marriottsville, Maryland, that specializes in water and wastewater treatment, plant, construction and rehabilitation. We built our specialized workforce over the last 20 years, not using union labor, but paying very good and competitive wages and offering great benefits. We are seeing PLA’s being required on larger federal projects, which restrict our ability to perform work in our normal manner, with the highest safety and quality standards. As a lot of our work is in Maryland, requiring PLA’s in Maryland here will do the same and hurt our ability to perform the needed infrastructure work for our communities.

Brandon Lumm

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Si solo voy a perder mi trabajo asi no estoy de acuerdo. Respuesta no y no.

Saul Alcantera