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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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AGC Responds to OSHA’s Attempt to Overrule Court Decision
On Oct. 28, 2016, AGC submitted comments as part of the Coalition for Workplace Safety in response to the Occupation Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) “Clarification of an Employers Continuing Obligation to Make and Maintain Accurate Records of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” proposed… Read More
February 4, 2016
AGC Opposes NAVFAC- and GSA-Mandated PLAs
Recently, AGC sent letters opposing the possible use of a project labor agreement (PLA) mandate posted by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest (NAVFAC) and the General Services Administration Mid-Atlantic Region (GSA). The letters address the possible use of mandatory PLAs involving… Read More
February 4, 2016
AGC Needs Your Help Targeting Members on Hours of Service Relief
Visit AGC’s Action Center at www.agc.org/TakeAction One of the numerous issues AGC is working on in the highway & transit bill is to provide some relief from hours of service restrictions on construction industry drivers.  For the past 20 years, current law has provided a limited… Read More
February 4, 2016
House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Schedules Mark Up
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) announced Wednesday that the committee is scheduled to take up transportation legislation on Thursday, Oct. 22. No details on the proposed measure were released, but the draft bill is expected to be made available tomorrow to… Read More
February 4, 2016
Who Won the Democratic Debate? Depends Who You Ask.
Five Democratic candidates squared off Tuesday evening in their party’s first presidential debate.  Among the issues discussed were the economy and environment, as well as college affordability, foreign policy, guns, income inequality, and race. According to virtually all media reports,… Read More
February 4, 2016
House Republican Leadership Race Postponed
Today, Republican members of the House of Representatives met for a special party conference to select a candidate to replace Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) as the Speaker of the House, who announced his resignation last week, effective Oct. 29.  Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was… Read More
February 4, 2016
Rare Change to Affordable Care Act Made Official
This week, the president signed into law the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees (PACE) Act, which repeals a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) forcing employers with 51 to 100 employees to change health care plans by requiring them to purchase insurance with additional mandates in… Read More
February 4, 2016
AGC-Backed Procurement Reforms Pass House & Senate
The House and Senate approved the conference report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which includes several AGC-supported procurement reforms. Those reforms: Help prevent fraud in the federal construction surety bond market by requiring that individual sureties to… Read More
February 4, 2016
SBA Releases Lower-Tier, Small Business Subcontractor Counting Rule
Positive Change Stemming from AGC Legislative Action The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) released a proposed rule that would allow prime contractors to count lower-tier, small business subcontracts towards their small business subcontracting goals. Currently, prime contractors can only… Read More
February 4, 2016
FAR Council Proposes Rule to Help Limit Short-list for Design-Build
AGC Legislative Success Begins Implementation Process The FAR Council released a proposed rule that would help limit the number of short-listed design-build teams to no more than five during a two-step design-build procurement through federal agencies. The proposed rule takes a two-pronged… Read More
February 4, 2016

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