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Construction Association Releases First-of-its-kind Decarbonization Playbook To Help Firms Assess, Track & Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
April 22, 2024
  The Associated General Contractors of America released today a new, first-of-its-kind, decarbonization playbook designed to help firms assess, track and reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the projects they build. The new resource, titled The AGC Playbook on Decarbonization and Carbon… Read More

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AGC Persuades Corps of Engineers to Withdraw PLA Requirement
Solicitations requiring bidders on certain U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) construction projects to submit an executed project labor agreement (PLA) prompted AGC to write and call agency officials expressing strong concern.  On August 18, the agency called AGC to announce that it was… Read More
August 19, 2010
AGC Persuades Corps of Engineers to Withdraw PLA Requirement
Solicitations requiring bidders on certain U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) construction projects to submit an executed project labor agreement (PLA) prompted AGC to write and call agency officials expressing strong concern.  On August 18, the agency called AGC to announce that it was… Read More
August 19, 2010
Temporary Pension Relief Legislation Enacted
On June 25, President Obama signed into law H.R. 3962, the Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 (the Act), a stand-alone measure to prevent a scheduled cut in Medicare reimbursements to physicians and to provide short-term funding relief to both… Read More
August 19, 2010
AGC Persuades Corps of Engineers to Withdraw PLA Requirement
Solicitations requiring bidders on certain U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) construction projects to submit an executed project labor agreement (PLA) prompted AGC to write and call agency officials expressing strong concern.  On August 18, the agency called AGC to announce that it was… Read More
August 19, 2010
New National Campaign to Push for Federal Highway and Transportation Bill Launches in South Dakota
  As part of the Transportation Construction Coalition and Americans for Transportation Mobility, AGC launched a new national effort to push for passage of the long-delayed bill that provides federal funds to fix aging roads and unsafe bridges. In conjunction with AGC of South Dakota, the campaign… Read More
August 19, 2010
Repeal of Form 1099 Reporting Requirements Gains Momentum - Action Still Needed
The massive healthcare bill enacted in March contained a provision which requires businesses to send Form 1099s for all business-to-business transactions for services and goods equaling $600 or more in a year.  The provision was justified as a way to identify businesses that are not reporting or… Read More
August 19, 2010
AGC Persuades Corps of Engineers to Withdraw PLA Requirement
Solicitations requiring bidders on certain U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) construction projects to submit an executed project labor agreement (PLA) prompted AGC to write and call agency officials expressing strong concern.  On August 18, the agency called AGC to announce that it was… Read More
August 18, 2010
Best Practices Guidance for Retainage
The AGC of America Specialty Contractors Council (SCC) released a two-page "Best Practices Guidance for Retainage" document in Fall 2009.  Developed by the SCC Executive Committee with input from the more than 1,000 AGC specialty contractor members who responded to an AGC retainage survey, this… Read More
August 18, 2010
AGC Calls on President to Protect Career Contracting Officers from Political Pressure to Require PLAs
AGC called on the president to send an "unmistakable and public" message that political appointees are not to cross the line between politics and procurement. AGC urged President Obama to tell his staff to leave career contracting officers free to evaluate whether it is in the taxpayers'… Read More
August 18, 2010
Year-to-Date Collective Bargaining Results in Low and No Increases in Wages and Fringe Benefits
Collective bargaining settlements reported to the Construction Labor Research Council (CLRC) between January and June of this year resulted in an average first-year wage-and-benefits increase of $0.55 or 1.1 percent.  This is considerably lower than the $1.49 or 3.1 percent average increase… Read More
August 17, 2010

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