As part of our ongoing advocacy in favor of project labor agreements, the SWACCA public policy team lobbied to help defeat an amendment offered by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act that would have barred application of President Biden’s SWACCA-supported Executive Order on PLAs on Department of Defense construction projects.
SWACCA succeeded in defeating Rep. Gaetz’s amendment in a 26-31 vote after all Democrats and four Republicans—Reps. Mike Turner (OH), Don Bacon (NE), Nick LaLota (NY), and Brad Finstad (MN)—opposed the amendment.