Organized labour leaders will celebrate that Illinois comes dead last in a ranking scale — the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Merit Shop Scorecard, which ranks the state’s adherence or avoidance of issues related to the interests of the non-union contractors association’s values.
Not surprisingly, ABC ranks states negatively if there are Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) and prevailing wage requirements, and positively if it has so-called Right To Work legislation.
You can view a detailed list of the criteria here. Illinois, indeed, remains a bastion of the construction industry’s organized labour movement.
