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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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Registration is now open for AGC’s 2014 Construction HR and Training Professionals Conference. The conference, for HR, training and workforce development professionals in the construction industry, will be held Oct. 15-17 at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. For more… Read More
May 20, 2014
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The AGC Labor and Employment Law Council held its 30th Annual Construction Labor Law Symposium on May 1 and 2, 2014, in Washington, D.C. Attorneys and chapter labor relations managers from across the country shared information and learned about the latest developments in construction labor and… Read More
May 16, 2014
Construction firms added jobs in 39 states and the District of Columbia over the past 12 months and in 29 states and D.C. between March and April according to an analysis today by AGC of America of Labor Department data. Association officials welcomed the mostly positive figures but cautioned that… Read More
May 16, 2014
This morning, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) unanimously approved S. 2322, the MAP-21 Reauthorization Act. The AGC-supported bipartisan bill is the first step towards reauthorizing current transportation funding legislation and identifying the revenue needed to provide for… Read More
May 16, 2014
Your Legislators Need to Hear from You!
With a transportation bill beginning to move through the Senate, it is critical that you contact your legislators to educate them on the importance of supporting a highway bill and the affect it will have on your company and job if they don’t.
Set up… Read More
May 16, 2014
House and Senate Votes Soon
On May 15, the House Transportation and Infrastructure and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committees released a final Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA). The House is likely to vote on the final WRRDA bill next week, while the Senate will… Read More
May 16, 2014
AGC and its coalition partners in the Water Infrastructure Network have been engaged in an 18-month campaign to include significant clean water provisions in the final conference package of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act. Those efforts successfully secured several provisions that… Read More
May 16, 2014
House Vote on Anti-Reverse Auctions and Design-Build Legislation Next Week
The House Armed Services Committee recently included a number of AGC procurement reform priorities in a major Department of Defense bill – the National Defense Authorization Act. The AGC priorities in the legislation… Read More
May 16, 2014
AGC recently sent two letters opposing the possible use of a project labor agreement (PLA) mandate posted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The prospective PLA projects are at Joint Base Langley-Fort Eustis, Va. and Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.
AGC has sent over 80 letters to federal… Read More
May 16, 2014
June 19-20, 2014 | Washington, D.C.
The Summer 2014 AGC Financial Issues Forum (FIF) will be held June 19-20 in Washington, D.C. The meeting is geared toward member company CFOs, CEOs and other senior accounting professionals –all forum attendees will have an opportunity to network and hear from… Read More
May 16, 2014