Perry on Project Labor Agreements and pre-apprenticeship funding
Perry discusses Project Labor Agreements covering $9 billion in cumulative project value, the most capital construction work ever, with community hiring goals embedded. He notes $1 million in baseline funding for construction pre-apprenticeship starting in FY2025 secured with SBS.
I also lead the city's negotiation for the project labor agreements, or PLAs, which are specific types of collective bargaining agreements that the city negotiates with the building trades for certain types of construction projects.
PLAs are a great tool to ensure cost-effective, efficient, and safe capital project delivery while ensuring labor harmony, fair wages, and benefits for workers, and opportunities for other workforce development.
And efforts.
The city signed new PLAs across 2024 and 2025 that cover a cumulative project value of approximately
only $9 billion, including many resilient infrastructure investments, like the construction of new parks and buildings, installation and renovation of wastewater filtration plants, and more.
While the city has had PLAs since 2009, the recent PLAs cover the most amount of capital construction work ever and also include community hiring goals directly in the PLAs.
This increases access to quality union careers for more New Yorkers, which will set them on a path to contribute to and benefit from the sector's green transition.
And to make these apprenticeship goals more equitable and impactful, NYC Talent worked with SBS to secure $1 million in baseline funding for construction pre-apprenticeship programming starting in fiscal year 2025.