The Biden administration recently looked at the absurdly high costs of government infrastructure and then promised to raise them further.
On the Friday before Christmas, the government finalized a rule to require large construction contracts to include project labor agreements, or PLAs.
These force contractors to make project-specific deals with labor unions on work conditions, hiring and wages.
The new rule is part of an unprecedented Biden administration effort to push PLAs on almost everything the government touches, from contracts to tax credits.
And it’s going ahead despite abundant evidence that such labor deals raise costs and stymie building.
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Judge Glock is the director of research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal.
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