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New Survey Shows How Nation鈥檚 Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey 94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies The nation鈥檚 failure to invest in construction鈥 Read More

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Last Chance to Register for AGC's Construction HR Summit
March 11, 2020, at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino Are you a Construction HR professional looking to enhance the HR function at your company? Join your peers at the AGC HR Summit on March 11, 2020, in conjunction with the AGC of America Annual Convention in Las Vegas (convention registration not鈥 Read More
February 25, 2020
Collectively Bargained First-Year Increases Remain Steady at 2.9%
Construction-industry collective bargaining negotiations completed in 2019 resulted in an average first-year increase in wages and fringe benefits of $1.67 or 2.9 percent, according to the annual year-end Settlements Report issued by the AGC-supported Construction Labor Research Council (鈥淐LRC鈥 Read More
February 24, 2020
OFCCP Releases Highly Anticipated Technical Assistance Guide for Construction Contractors
The U.S. Department of Labor鈥檚 (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently announced the release of its new technical assistance guide created specifically for construction contractors. OFCCP intends for construction contractors to use the technical assistance guide as a鈥 Read More
February 24, 2020
USCIS Releases New Version of Form I-9
On Jan. 31, 2020, The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a new version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. This new version contains minor changes to the form and its instructions. Employers should begin using this updated form as of Jan. 31,鈥 Read More
February 24, 2020
OFCCP Launches Its Contractor Compliance Institute
OFCCP recently announced the release of its new Contractor Compliance Institute (CCI), an on-demand learning management system designed to help federal contract holders meet their equal employment opportunity obligations. OFCCP created the CCI curriculum specifically for federal contractors,鈥 Read More
February 24, 2020
AGC Student Chapter at Auburn University Participates in MLK Service Project
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2020, a group of seven student members in Auburn鈥檚 Student Chapter of AGC teamed up with Alabama Rural Ministry (ARM) to volunteer for the MLK Day Celebration. The group was assigned a sub-floor replacement project at the residence of a local elderly couple. Years of鈥 Read More
February 24, 2020
Alabama 蜜桃导航 CLC: See a Need - Fill a Need
In January of 2019, the new leadership group of Mobile AL CLC met to discuss the goals for the 2019 calendar year. Among these goals were to encourage AGC leaders to guide their young people to CLC, engage current CLC members and recruit others, find new and creative meeting formats and community鈥 Read More
February 24, 2020
GBCA CLC Takes the Spotlight and is Set for Growth in 2020
The General Building Contractors Association (GBCA) held its Annual Meeting on January 13, 2020 to look back on the past year鈥檚 successes of the association and its members, and to look forward to new initiatives in the upcoming year. This year, the event focused on the construction industry鈥檚鈥 Read More
February 24, 2020
U.S. DOT Announces First Round of 2020 Airport Infrastructure Grants; $520M in Funding for Construction at Airports
On Feb. 19, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao announced the award of $520 million in airport infrastructure grants to 287 airports as part of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). The AIP grant program awards billions of dollars each year for the planning and development of public-use鈥 Read More
February 20, 2020
BLS Releases Annual Report on Worker Earnings and Union Represenation
Union representation across occupations in the construction industry modestly declined in 2019, from 13.8 percent to 13.6 percent of workers employed, according to an annual release recently issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (鈥淏LS鈥).  Union membership in the industry also鈥 Read More
February 18, 2020

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