ON Time, On Budget
- Studies show that projects covered by PLAs are completed on time and within budget
- A PLA is an insurance policy for taxpayers, guaranteeing that infrastructure is built by competent workers trained to deliver the highest standards of safety and craftsmanship.
Projects built with PLAs have been found to be completed up to 19% faster than those without PLAs.
Hometown jobs for hometown workers
PLAs expand local, hire and opportunities to workers from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- PLAs can increase local hire and expand opportunities to workers from underrepresented communities at a time when the industry is facing a historic labor shortage and contractors need new workers.
- PLAs promote the hiring of veterans and facilitate the hiring of registered apprentices.
- Union employers are twice as likely to offer diversity and inclusion training programs and twice as likely to have policies in place to recruit people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Trained professionals, safer job sites
- PLAs boost investment in apprenticeship training for the next generation of skilled construction workers.
- programs have 31% lower injury rates and union worksites have 34% fewer OSHA violations.
- PLAs make contractors less likely to experience project completion delays due to worker shortages.
