The Republican platform, Takes a more hostile stance towards construction unions, demanding “an end to the Project Labor Agreements” and “repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act.” Both PLAs and Davis-Bacon establish wage standards for construction projects, making it easier for contractors that use union labor to compete with cheaper nonunion contractors for work (Davis-Bacon covers federal contracts; PLAs are project-specific agreements). rein in the overreaching regulation agenda of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) , i.e., the effort to keep workers from being killed, injured, or made sick by their jobs. In fact, theyd rein OSHA in with a law theyve oh-so-cleverly titled the REINS Act.
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