In their on-going, mostly futile, attempts to discredit and tarnish the value of Community Workforce Agreements, the “race to the bottom” apologists (e.g. the Associated Builders and Contractors) show slovenly devotion to one specific study concerning school construction costs that was conducted by the widely discredited Beacon Hill Institute.  

Now comes a research paper from experts at Michigan State University, the College of Wooster, and the University of Tennessee that concludes that the Beacon Hill study’s claim that Community Workforce Agreements raise construction costs by 14-17 percent are effectively bogus because the study was based on overly simplistic models.  When a more complex model is used, those cost increases are not evident.


CLICK HERE TO DOWN A COPY OF THE ARTICLE: “PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS’ EFFECT ON SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION COSTS IN MASSACHUSETTS”