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H. R. No. 58 As Reported by the House Commerce and Labor Committee
A RESOLUTION
Representatives Yuko,
Pryor, Foley, Phillips, Williams, S., Hagan, Luckie, Letson, Domenick, Skindell, Brown, Stewart
To encourage state agencies to use project labor
agreements on public improvement projects.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| WHEREAS, A project labor agreement is a pre-hire collective
bargaining agreement between an entity and one or more labor
organizations that establishes the terms and conditions of
employment for a specific construction project; and |
| WHEREAS, Because a project labor agreement establishes
uniform work and pay schedules and management rights regarding
hiring employees and includes provisions prohibiting strikes and
other work stoppages by employees and specifying standard
grievance procedures that are applicable to all contractors and
unions working on a public improvement project, a project labor
agreement is a proven way to effectively manage and maintain time
schedules and budgets on that project and to encourage fair
competition among contractors by standardizing labor conditions;
and |
| WHEREAS, Often public improvement projects involve multiple
employers, which may result in project delays if the employees of
any of those employers strike, and the lack of coordination and
cooperation between employers may delay completion of the project;
and |
| WHEREAS, A project labor agreement reduces the costs of a
public improvement project by allowing a state agency to know all
of the labor costs up-front and by providing stability and
structure to the project, since all parties are bound to the terms
of the agreement and the project labor agreement takes precedence
over any existing collective bargaining agreement between a union
and a particular contractor for that project; and |
| WHEREAS, In these tough economic times, a state agency should
take any available steps to reduce the costs of projects
undertaken by the agency; now therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the House of
Representatives of the 128th General Assembly of the State of
Ohio, encourage all state agencies to use project labor agreements
for public improvement projects undertaken by the state agency;
and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives
transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the
Governor of the State of Ohio, to the heads of each state agency
of the State of Ohio, and to the news media of Ohio. |
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