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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 Reauthorization Schedule Delayed
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar's (D-Minn.) hopes to have a transportation reauthorization bill passed before the House recesses for the summer may not be fulfilled. A markup of the legislation tentatively scheduled by the T&I Subcommittee on Highways and… Read More
June 4, 2009
AGC and Transportation Construction Coalition Fly-in Attracts 450; House Leadership Report on Reauthorization Progress
Over 450 highway contractors, suppliers and other interested parties participated in last week's Transportation Construction Coalition's (TCC) Fly-In urging Congress to enact a well funded, multi-year surface transportation authorization bill as quickly as possible.  The participants visited… Read More
June 4, 2009
House Passes Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization, Includes AGC-Supported PFC Increase
The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday passed H.R. 915, a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funding and safety oversight programs for four years with a total authorized spending level of $70 billion.  The bill includes a total of $16.2 billion for the Airport… Read More
June 4, 2009
Share Your Stimulus Success Stories with AGC
AGC has been busy collecting anecdotes from member companies across the country regarding their work on stimulus-funded projects.  These stories serve as an important reminder to the public that infrastructure investment is an effective way to put people to work, keep businesses profitable and… Read More
June 4, 2009
AGC Meets with Transportation Secretary to Discuss Stimulus Progress
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood invited a group of AGC contractors last week to meet with him to provide a progress report on the impact of stimulus funding for transportation projects. The contractors have been awarded contracts for Recovery Act-funded projects and reported that, as a result,… Read More
June 4, 2009
Feeding the Fed Your Facts
On May 19, I had the privilege, along with a handful of other members of the National Association for Business Economics, to brief Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Governor Dan Tarullo on the state of the economy. Thanks to the feedback many of the 12,000 subscribers to the Data DIGest… Read More
June 4, 2009
New Report Finds No Change in Cost of Construction-Industry Collective Bargaining Agreement in 2008
The cost of construction-industry collective bargaining agreement (CBA) terms and conditions as a percentage of wages and fringes was unchanged in 2008 at 6.4 percent, according to the Construction Labor Research Council's (CLRC) latest Cost of Terms and Conditions in Collective Bargaining… Read More
June 4, 2009
DHS to Focus on Prosecuting Employers Who Hire Illegal Workers
On April 30, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a shift in its workforce enforcement priorities from the prosecution of illegal aliens working in the United States to the prosecution of employers who knowingly hire them.  According to a fact sheet distributed by DHS, only 135… Read More
June 4, 2009
AGC Meets with Obama Administration on Government Mandated Labor Agreements
ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ CEO Steve Sandherr met with officials from the Obama Administration's Office of Management and Budget, Department of Labor, Office of Federal Procurement Policy and the Vice President's staff last week to discuss AGC's position on the Government Mandated Labor Agreements (GMLAs).  Earlier in… Read More
June 4, 2009
Construction Employment Declines in Virtually Every Metropolitan Area Over the Past Year, New AGCAnalysis Finds
Troubling Employment Data Underscores Need for Speedy Distribution of Stimulus Funds, AGC Economist Ken Simonson Notes  Construction employment fell in 276 of the nation's largest 299 metro areas from April 2008 to April 2009, according to a new analysis of government data conducted by the… Read More
June 4, 2009

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