Pro-labor executive order signed.

President Obama signs a pro-labor executive order which reestablishes a Clinton-era order that Bush rescinded. It encourages federal agencies to require project labor agreements on major ($25 million or more) federal construction projects. These agreements essentially require all contractors on a project to sign on to an agreement negotiated with relevant unions (the equivalent of an 8(f) agreement under the NLRA.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/EXECUTIVEORDERUSEOFPROJECTLABORAGREEMENTSFORFEDERALCONSTRUCTIONPROJECTS/
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