PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed an Executive Order on Wednesday mandating projecting labor agreements for state-funded construction projects, the Governor’s Office announced.
Executive Order 24-31 aims to improve timeliness, lower costs, invest in high-skilled workers and boost the quality of state construction projects through project labor agreements, or PLAs, the governor’s office said.
“Oregon will soon embark on multiple large scale infrastructure projects across the state. With these projects, we have a generational opportunity to lift up Oregon workers and reinforce public trust in our ability to do big things, and do them well,” Gov. Kotek said. “With the broad use of PLAs across state projects, Oregonians will know that public dollars are spent efficiently and benefit the communities in which they’re spent.”
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The executive order requires project labor agreements to be negotiated and executed on state-funded projects where onsite labor costs account for 15% or more of the total construction, reconstruction, or renovation costs.