I am not a lawyer but section 5 states that this only a suggestion.
Sec. 5. This order does not require an executive agency to use a project labor agreement on any construction project, nor does it preclude the use of a project labor agreement in circumstances not covered by this order, including leasehold arrangements and projects receiving Federal financial assistance. This order also does not require contractors or subcontractors to enter into a project labor agreement with any particular labor organization.
And who heads up all of those federal agencies that will be making the decisions to use PLA's in construction contracts?
Could it be a bunch of "conservatives" that Obama appointed to office?
He will direct and they will comply. Hardly a "suggestion".
Sec. 5. This order does not require an executive agency to use a project labor agreement on any construction project, nor does it preclude the use of a project labor agreement in circumstances not covered by this order, including leasehold arrangements and projects receiving Federal financial assistance. This order also does not require contractors or subcontractors to enter into a project labor agreement with any particular labor organization.
“I am not a lawyer but section 5 states that this only a suggestion.”
I’m not either, but I think this means “no specific union” but “some union” that falls within the union definition given earlier in the order.
Suppose an airline got a contract under this for hauling workers to a construction location: The pilots could be members of ALPA or APA but the contract could not go to a non-union airline.
A more likely example would be something like a Texas neo-WPA project going to a Peoples Democratic Republic of [fill in northern state of your choice] because all the local Texas construction companies were non-union.