Business Development within the construction industry presents multiple challenges as competition levels rise, continued supply obstacles occur, and labor shortages pressure companies to do more with less. On this episode, members of ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥â€™s Business Development Forum – Chris Martin, President at Atlas Marketing and Tonya Byrd (Jackson), Business Development Manager at Gilbane Building Company – discuss these challenges and share best practices and methods to help your construction company grow.
ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥ of America’s Union Contractors Committee will meet during the association’s 2022 Annual Convention on Wednesday, March 30, at 1:00 p.m. in the Gaylord Texan’s Grapevine 5-6 rooms. All union contractors and chapter staff registered for the Convention are encouraged to attend.
ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥ of America is releasing a series of new coronavirus public service ads that feature Spanish-speaking construction workers urging their colleagues to get vaccinated for COVID. Each of the workers featured in the ads was unvaccinated and had a near-death experience with the coronavirus. They want their colleagues to avoid making the same mistake and in the videos urge other workers to get their shot. You can find the ads here and here. The ads all direct viewers to ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥ of America’s Coronavirus Vaccine toolkit which now includes a feature to translate all the site’s content into Spanish.
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On February 7, the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment released its report on encouraging the federal government to promote the value of labor unions and making government contractors’ employees aware of their rights to join a labor union. Many of the nearly 70 findings in the report are similar to policy recommendations and actions already being undertaken by the Biden Administration, such as efforts to enforce misclassification of independent contractors, preferences for government-mandated project labor agreements, local hire requirements on federal construction projects, and more.
The recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allows states or localities to implement a local hiring preference on federal-aid highway and transit projects. Such was already the case prior to passage of IIJA through a U.S. DOT pilot program. However, as part of that pilot program, the grant recipient was forced to certify that there was:
Ends Secret Ballot in Union Organizing elections (Card Check), Forced CBA Arbitration and More
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