Full-scale construction on Maryland’s Purple Line light-rail system appears set to resume after Labor Day, with the long delayed project's new design-build joint venture inking a project labor agreement with one of metropolitan Washington, D.C.’s largest craft unions.
The Dragados-OHL-led team, selected last year by the project's private management consortium to take over the project after its previous Fluor-led JV departed in 2020, completed negotiations with Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 11 in late August on an agreement that will cover the remaining four years of construction.