Articles Tagged with ''labor''

Associated Builders and Contractors Chief Economist Anirban Basu cites labor shortages, tariffs as continuing industry challenges while construction spending slows amid caution and the end of Biden administration funding. 

May 2025 job opening were down by 130,000 compared with May 2024.

The order stays attempts by the U.S. Dept. of Labor to shutter the job training program until a related lawsuit is settled.

While bid protests offer a legal strategy to challenge the Biden-era project-labor agreement mandate, a First Amendment-based case could overturn it, author contends.

The hot pace of construction staff compensation is cooling. Following years of historically high salary increases, employers are reigning in pay for construction staff.

More than 100 people illegally in the U.S. were arrested at two Tallahassee, Fla., work sites May 29. 

Industry contractor groups generally welcomed certainty around disputes that will be heard, particularly by NLRB while Wilcox's case is adjudicated by the lower courts.

Court demands answers on whether the union sheet metal worker in Maryland was erroneously deported and imprisoned in El Salvador.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador prison where he remains, despite federal court order calling for his return.

Industry economists reacted to the jobs report with worry that tariffs announced April 2 by President Trump will stall industry employment growth.