Project Labor Agreement

would love an example.

She adopted an executive order, which was under this banner called Project Labor Agreements, and she was sued.

And the court sided with the plaintiffs in that case and said that her adoption of the executive order was not within her authority as governor, and it was an unconstitutional executive order, which they immediately reversed.

And so that is just one example to give you one example.

State and company officials have estimated about 6,000 construction jobs and roughly 1,750 permanent jobs once operational, with a target of around 2030.

During the Senate debate, amendments were introduced that would... have required labor protections including a project labor agreement and a commitment not to interfere with workers seeking to organize those amendments failed with potentially billions in public incentives and thousands of construction jobs the key labor questions is what protection standards opportunities will be written into the final agreement between iowa and masabi metallics You know, Charlie, when I thought of you when I wanted to have this conversation, I know I saw your personal Facebook post, and I know on there you said it needs PLA.

We need to have an agreement for unionization as well, a neutral unionization as well.

And so my first question for you is just right off the bat, what was the first thoughts through your head when you saw this? when it was announced with all our, well, some of our delegation, you know, kissing Donald Trump's ass and in the, in the oval office.

And the reason why I came to the conclusion that, well, first of all, I think it's within our value set that no matter what business wants to do economic development in Iowa, I think that's pretty easy to say that, yeah, we want this built right.

We want to build on time and we want it in an agreement where we know that apprentices are being used on the job, like we're building our workforce.

So I think a project labor agreement makes a whole lot of sense for Iowa taxpayers anyway.

But beyond that, the idea that the company would be neutral on a unionization effort.