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Fri, 02/02/2024 – 12:29 Construction Earnings Increased by 5.3 percent Year-over-Year to $35.21 an Hour as Firms Boost Wages in an Effort to Attract More Workers into the Sector Amid Strong Demand for Certain Types of Projects The construction industry added 11,000 jobs in January despite bouts of exceptionally cold or stormy weather that delayed…

Tue, 01/23/2024 – 13:48 South Dakota and Texas Leads Top Rankings of Year-over-Year Increases, While New York Lags; South Dakota and New Jersey Lead in Monthly Gains, While D.C. and Ohio Experience Largest Declines Construction employment increased in 35 states in December from a year earlier, while 32 states added construction jobs between November and December,…

AGC Charities, Inc. is teaming up with Sierra Pacific West to Organize a Volunteer Day to Make-A-Wish San Diego on Tuesday, March 19th at 8:30 am to 3 pm Spend March 19th volunteering to help out two families in need and showing San Diego how much our industry gives back. This year’s AGC Charities volunteer day is…

Wed, 01/10/2024 – 15:34 President Lacks Legal Authority to Impose Such Sweeping Labor Policy, Especially When the Government’s Own Data Shows Imposing Project Labor Agreements Fail to Produce Contracting Efficiencies, Association Notes The Associated General Contractors of America and its Louisiana AGC chapter filed suit today in federal court to block the Biden Administration’s unlawful effort…

Fri, 01/05/2024 – 10:34 Hourly Wages for Production Workers Climb 5.1 Percent over the Year, Outpacing Overall Private Sector; Association Survey Finds Most Contractors Plan to Add to Headcount in 2024 but Anticipate Difficulty The construction sector added 17,000 employees in December and continued to raise wages at a faster clip than other industries, the…

Construction Firms Have Mixed Outlook For 2024 As Expectations For Demand Remain Mostly Positive, But Less Upbeat Than Last Year Amid New Challenges New Industry Outlook Shows Firms Are Counting on Public Sector, Data Center and Manufacturing Construction to Offset Declines in Retail, Lodging & Office Work; Two-Thirds of Firms Plan to Hire; Many Worry…

Wed, 01/03/2024 – 10:21 Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas, and Baton Rouge, La. Lead in Job Gains While Orange-Rockland-Westchester, N.Y. Experiences Worst Losses; Construction Association Prepares to Release Survey Reporting Mixed Conditions Construction employment declined in almost a quarter of metro areas between November 2022 and November 2023 as demand tapered in some parts of the country and…

Tue, 01/02/2024 – 12:40 New Spending Data Comes as Construction Association Gets Ready to Release Industry’s Predictions for Construction Spending Trends in 2024, Need for New Workers & Planned Investments in AI and Other Tech Total construction spending increased by 0.4 percent in November, as a pickup in homebuilding and some private nonresidential markets offset…

Record October Job Openings Indicate Contractors are Struggling to Attract and Retain Skilled Workers amid Tight Overall Labor Market; Association Officials Call for Investments in Construction Education Construction sector job gains slowed in November as firms added only 2,000 jobs, but wages for hourly employees accelerated and the number of unfilled positions reached record highs…

Tue, 11/07/2023 – 14:08 Administration Lacks the Legal Authority to Expand Coverage to Areas Specifically Excluded in the Law, or to Retroactively Impose Davis-Bacon Stipulations on Existing Contracts, Group Notes in its Federal Lawsuit The Associated General Contractors of America filed suit today in federal court to block the Biden Administration’s unlawful effort to expand the…