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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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Construction Employment Rises in 35 States and D.C. from January 2017 to January 2018; Jobs Increase in 31 States and D.C. Since December
Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between January 2017 and January 2018, while 32 states and D.C. added construction jobs between December and January, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data released鈥 Read More
March 12, 2018
Trump Infrastructure Plan Unveiled; Includes Environmental Streamlining
Tell Congress to Invest in Infrastructure NOW AGC applauded President Trump for releasing his $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan on Feb. 12, which includes several AGC-supported environmental streamlining provisions such as a "One Federal Decision" environmental review structure, firm鈥 Read More
March 9, 2018
5 Must-Ask Questions for Getting Your Website Right
Ida Cheinman, Substance151 Rebuilding a website is no easy endeavor. Fortunately, if you ask the right questions at the onset of the project, you will keep your team on track and your soon-to-be new website on the road to exceptional. Click here to read the rest of the article.
March 1, 2018
ICE Steps Up Immigration Raids
Employers Should Prepare Now to Avoid Federal Enforcement Action Federal enforcement officials are amplifying their efforts to crack down on undocumented workers and the businesses that employ them.  While most of the latest raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been鈥 Read More
February 20, 2018
Federal Government Releases New Policies That Will Affect Environmental Enforcement
In the first few weeks of 2018, the federal government released a series of memoranda officially announcing a host of significant changes in how it will enforce violations of environmental laws 鈥 ranging from restricting payouts to 鈥渟ettle鈥 lawsuits outside of court, to deferring to states on鈥 Read More
February 15, 2018
BLS Data Show Little Change in Union Representation or Weekly Earnings in Construction Industry
Union representation in the construction industry (covering all occupations) rose very slightly in 2017, from 14.6 percent to 14.7 percent, according to an annual report recently issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (鈥淏LS鈥).  Union membership in the industry similarly increased over the鈥 Read More
February 8, 2018
Presentations Sought for AGC's 2018 Construction HR and Training Professionals Conference
AGC鈥檚 2018 Construction HR & Training Professionals Conference and Federal Construction HR Workshop will be held October 10-12, 2018, in Fort Worth, TX.  The conference will offer unique opportunities for HR, training, and workforce development professionals in the construction industry.鈥 Read More
February 8, 2018
2017 Collective Bargaining Yields Average First Year Increase of 2.7%
Construction-industry collective bargaining negotiations completed during 2017 resulted in an average first-year increase in wages and benefits of $1.34 per hour or 2.7 percent, according to the annual year-end Settlements Report issued by the AGC-supported Construction Labor Research Council.鈥 Read More
February 8, 2018
AGC Meets with New OFCCP Director
On January 31, 2018, AGC attended an intimate stakeholder meeting and roundtable with Ondray T. Harris, the recently appointed Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) at the U.S Department of Labor. AGC took the opportunity to discuss the unique challenges鈥 Read More
February 8, 2018
EEO-1 Survey Now Open for Qualifying Employers
On January 24, 2018, the EEOC announced it had completed its mailing of the 2017 EEO-1 survey Notification Letters and all employers that qualify must file EEO-1 Reports by March 31, 2018. You may remember that the EEOC recently revised the EEO-1 report, but following advice from AGC the Trump鈥 Read More
February 8, 2018

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