Project Labor Agreements Reached with the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York
New York – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced two Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) with the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC) that will cover more than $1 billion in construction projects throughout the term of the agreements, including generational infrastructure improvements in Willets Point. These historic PLAs will allow the city to complete capital projects more effectively and efficiently, connect more underserved New Yorkers to quality union career and apprenticeship opportunities through community hiring, and strengthen the city’s commitment to minority- and women-owned businesses (M/WBEs). Covered construction projects will include green infrastructure improvements and repairing the city’s sewers, roads, and bridges. Mayor Adams also announced that the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has signed a letter of intent with BCTC, to negotiate in good faith additional PLAs for the Hunts Point Produce Market, the Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment, and the Science Park and Research Campus (SPARC) Kips Bay projects – a cumulative $1.88 billion in construction work. The PLAs announced today also establish the framework for future negotiations with the BCTC for upcoming PLAs that could cover as much as $50 billion of future capital construction projects. These PLAs will cover design-build projects, new construction projects, and renovation projects of city-owned buildings and structures. BCTC represents more than 100,000 tradesmen and tradeswomen across New York City and consists of local affiliates of 15 national and international unions.
PLAs enable the city to establish fair wages, benefits, and safety protections for workers, and provide opportunities for workforce development, while controlling construction costs and ensuring the timely completion of projects. Today’s announcement will allow $800 million in planned infrastructure projects across the city to be completed using design-build delivery, an innovative method where the design and construction are under a single contract. These projects range from improvements to critical below-grade infrastructure, roadway and waterfront reconstruction, and new greenway projects – all projects with complex site conditions that will benefit from site investigations and constructability input from contractors during the design development. A separate PLA will support the administration’s historic $270 million investment in the transformation of Willets Point. They also include the largest-ever commitment to investing in M/WBEs, and for the first time, they incorporate Community Hiring goals to ensure that job and apprenticeship opportunities are made available to workers living in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing or a ZIP code where at least 15 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty threshold.
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Source: The Office of the Mayor