Biden Seeks to Give Union Allies New Monopoly on Billions of Dollars in Federal Contracts

Concrete trucks sit inside the World Trade Center construction area in New York on Aug. 2, 2011. Construction on the 800,000-square-foot transit hub at the World Trade Center reportedly stopped when concrete workers from local unions went on strike Aug. 1, in protest of a contract that expired on June 30. Andrew Burton/Getty Images

President Joe Biden’s appointees at the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FARC) have proposed a new rule that would allow only companies with unionized workforces to bid on new government contracts worth $35 million or more annually.

The FARC proposal implements Biden’s executive order No. 14063, which requires project labor agreements (PLA) on all “large-scale” federal construction projects. Use of a PLA in a federal contract would mean that only companies with unionized employees would be eligible to bid on and be selected for a federal project.