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New Survey Shows How Nation’s 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’s failure to invest in construction… Read More

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House and Senate Budgets Provide Reserve Fund for Highway Trust Fund
This week, the chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees released their 2016 budgets with the House panel passing their bill on a party line vote.  The Senate Budget Committee is expected to pass their bill later today. In terms of transportation and the Highway… Read More
July 23, 2015
AGC Opposes USACE-Mandated PLA
  Recently, AGC sent a letter opposing the possible use of a project labor agreement (PLA) mandate posted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The letter addressed concerns about a possible PLA mandate for a command and control facility project at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. AGC neither… Read More
July 23, 2015
Congress Passes Legislation to Stop the NLRB's “Ambush” Election Rule
President Obama Expected to Veto    Today, the House passed an AGC-supported resolution that would nullify the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) rule on representation-case procedures, which will go into effect on April 14, 2015. The vote fell mostly along party lines… Read More
July 23, 2015
Push Back Continues Against “Devolution”
This week, AGC continued to push back on outside groups like Heritage Action and Club for Growth, who have been pushing a legislative proposal that would severely cut federal funding for state highway capital investments. The proposal known as the Transportation Empowerment Act (TEA Act) would… Read More
July 23, 2015
Hardhats for Highways Launches Ten-Week Grassroots Blitz – Contact Your Members of Congress!
New “e-Hardhat” Letters Available at www.HardhatsforHighways.org    Congress needs to understand the dire need to fix the Highway Trust Fund before the current extension expires.  Hardhats for Highways has developed five letters that we are asking you and your employees to send… Read More
July 23, 2015
#DriveBetterRoads: AGC Launches New Education, Advertising and Social Media Campaign to Boost Federal Highway Funding Visit www.DriveBetterRoads.org Today!
#DriveBetterRoads: AGC Launches New Education, Advertising and Social Media Campaign to Boost Federal Highway Funding  Visit www.DriveBetterRoads.org Today!    On Tuesday, AGC launched a new nationwide advertising and education campaign to push for a boost in… Read More
July 23, 2015
H-2B Visa Program Shuts Down After Court Ruling
H-2B Visa Program Shuts Down After Court Ruling    Last week, a Florida federal district court ruled that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) lacked the authority to issue regulations for the H-2B visa program.  The regulations in question were issued in 2008. … Read More
July 23, 2015
Highway Trust Fund Revenue Ideas Proposed
 With the May 31 deadline for reauthorization of the federal-aid highway and federal transit programs quickly approaching, finding a solution for keeping the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) solvent remains the biggest hurdle. Recently Sen. Finance Committee Chair Orin Hatch (R-Utah) – whose committee… Read More
July 23, 2015
TCC Sends HTF Letter to Budget Committees
This week, the AGC-led Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) sent a letter to the House and Senate Budget Committees urging them to address the looming insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) in their fiscal year 2016 budget resolutions.  The budget provides the… Read More
July 23, 2015
Senate Finance Committee Action
On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee conducted a tax reform hearing on compliance and administration of the tax code. Witnesses included Carol Markman of EP Caine & Associates, Mihir Desai of Harvard University, Bruce Bartlett, former deputy assistant secretary for economic policy… Read More
July 23, 2015

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