"The red state’s green transition and manufacturing renaissance, however, has sidelined trade unions. Building trades groups haven’t managed to strike a single project labor agreement with a major new employer coming to the state, or gain a foothold in construction hiring. Labor leaders say many businesses won’t even return their calls. One reason for that is employers’ resistance to a higher-wage labor force. But at several of the largest electric-vehicle sites coming into the state, Gov. Kemp’s administration has in fact secured economic development deals with these companies that award lucrative contracts for building out the factories to non-union construction firms. The selected companies are also donors to Republicans in the state, including the governor—the former owner of a non-union construction company himself," the article reads.