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Spotlight Your Achievements! AGC Launches Awards Season with the Opening of Build America, AGC in the Community, Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion Awards
July 15, 2024
Apply by Thursday, October 31, 2024!  AGC of America is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 AGC Awards competitions! The Baldwin Group Build America Awards (including the Marvin M. Black Partnering Excellence category) and AGC in the Community competitions recognize the nation's most… Read More

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Rally for Roads
AGC teamed up with our transportation and construction industry allies in sponsoring the “Rally for Roads” which took place on March 20 on the National Mall. Local construction companies transported construction equipment and nearly five hundred industry representatives, including workers in hard… Read More
March 24, 2012
Supreme Court Victory for Construction Industry This Week on Wetlands Issue
This week, the construction industry has been hit with good news on the issue of federal jurisdiction over wetlands in the Clean Water Act. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous March 21 ruling, said that an Idaho couple could legally challenge an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compliance… Read More
March 23, 2012
House Budget Proposal Cuts Transportation But Provides Reserve Fund to Cover Costs of H.R. 7
The House Budget Committee completed action on a proposed FY 2013 budget resolution, introduced earlier in the week by Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The proposal would reduce federal transportation funding investment from $88.6 billion in FY 2012 to $57.1 billion in FY 2013, a reduction of $31.5… Read More
March 23, 2012
House Proposes 9th Extension for Transportation Authorization
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) announced that he will introduce a “clean” three-month extension of highway and transit programs that contains no policy changes. The extension will not be taken up until next week. Chairman Mica said that the extension… Read More
March 23, 2012
House Budget Committee Passes FY 2013 Budget Resolution
Yesterday, by a margin of 19-18, the House Budget Committee passed their budget resolution for fiscal year (FY) 2013, the "Path to Prosperity." Two Republicans, Justin Amash (Mich.) and Tim Huelskamp (Kan.), joined all Democrats in opposing the resolution.  A summary of the "Path to Prosperity" can… Read More
March 23, 2012
DOL Seeks Nominations for Registered Apprenticeship Challenge
In honor of this year’s 75th anniversary of the passage of the National Apprenticeship Act, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), in partnership with the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship, is launching a search to identify the trailblazers and innovators of 21st Century Registered… Read More
March 22, 2012
Oregon’s AGC Student Chapters Provide Update
AGC’s Oregon-Columbia Chapter recently took the time to interview Student Chapter leaders from each of the four schools it sponsors – Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, Rogue Community College, and Portland Community College. The students report being involved in a wide… Read More
March 22, 2012
Justice Department Issues Guidance for Employers on I-9 Audits
An increase in I-9 audits over the past few years has spurred the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue guidance for employers that are the subject of an I-9 audit.  DOJ’s guidance shares best practices and steps employers should take to avoid charges of… Read More
March 22, 2012
Contractor Must Give Work to Plasterers Even Though Carpenters Won Representation Election
A contractor must comply with an arbitration award assigning work to members of the Plasterers union rather than the Carpenters despite the fact that the contractor’s employees have elected the Carpenters as their exclusive collective bargaining representative, the U.S. District Court for the… Read More
March 22, 2012
CDW and Chamber Join Lawsuit Challenging NLRB Recess Appointments
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (“CDW”) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) have jointly filed a motion to intervene in a case challenging Pres. Obama’s latest appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”).  AGC is a member of both organizations. The U.… Read More
March 22, 2012

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