The RFK project will operate under a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), for both stadium construction and surrounding retail and hospitality development.
Two affiliates of the Baltimore-DC Metro Building Trades Council recently welcomed historically large classes of new apprentices.
The Baltimore-DC Metro Building Trades Council is urging the county to require a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) before approving any public funds.
Projections estimated that 1500 Gateway would have created more than 2,800 union construction jobs, generating over $190 million in wages.
The building trades are actively pushing for a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) to cover all remaining phases of the rebuild.
For building trades leadership, participating in tech industry events is not optional — it is key to ensuring union labor remains the standard for next-generation construction.
Workers claim they were asked to work overtime and were never paid an overtime premium – in addition to experiencing long delays in getting paid at all.
Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters’ Representative John Barber was sworn in as chair of the Baltimore City Wage Commission in early August.
The settlement, reached after mediation in June 2026, resolves a federal lawsuit alleging that the workers were systematically underpaid during a $66 million school renovation project.
Building trades members urged the Fredericksburg City Council to support a project that has already been scaled back, redesigned and committed to union labor.