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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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Next week begins Congress' lame duck session - the last chance for Democrats to push climate change, card check and immigration. The week will include leadership elections in the House and Senate, and Congress will reassemble after Thanksgiving to finish the session.
Legislation likely to be… Read More
November 12, 2010
A new web-based toolkit that helps guide employers through the process of hiring military veterans is now available. The free toolkit was created to assist and educate employers who are looking to include veterans and wounded soldiers in their recruitment and hiring initiatives.
Debuting at a time… Read More
November 11, 2010
www.ConsensusDOCS.org
ConsensusDOCS offers a variety of free resources to help you conduct business, including detailed information on project delivery options and sample contracts.
Articles - a variety of topics are covered including IPD, BIM, green building, federal subcontracting and much more… Read More
November 11, 2010
On November 9, the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform laid out a preliminary proposal to cut the federal deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars.  The sweeping proposal - which has garnered opposition from liberals, labor unions and conservatives, including… Read More
November 11, 2010
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), chair of the Senate Contracting Oversight Subcommittee, is pressing forward in her efforts to investigate the effectiveness of the Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) program. McCaskill has expressed on numerous occasions her concerns over the unique government… Read More
November 11, 2010
Free Downloads
The ConsensusDOCS Guidebooks have been updated and are available as free downloads at http://consensusdocs.org/catalog/consensusdocs-guidebook/.
The Guidebooks include comments from individual associations to its own membership on specific contract documents, highlighting… Read More
November 11, 2010
Nearly 100 people attended AGC of America’s 4th Annual Training & Development Conference to listen to speakers give presentations on such subjects as turning generational diversity into a competitive advantage; creating effective communication between industry and academia; and working with… Read More
November 11, 2010
The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) on November 10 decided to delay the effective date of a final standard requiring additional disclosures about employer participation in multi-employer pension plans.Â
In an Exposure Draft (ED) issued in September, FASB proposed that additional… Read More
November 11, 2010
Consistent with its prior agreement with AGC, the California Air Resources Board ("CARB" or "Board") has formally proposed a series of sweeping amendments to its controversial rule on off-road diesel emissions. The amendments will push the original deadlines for construction contractors and other… Read More
November 10, 2010
In the July/August issue of AGC's Constructor magazine, "After the Fall" examines the difficulties in the private sector construction market, and how members are finding new opportunities in the public arena.
To read the article, please click here.
November 10, 2010