Chair and CEO Brendan Bechtel said the agreement “ensures apprenticeship programs continue to develop the number of craft professionals needed to supply this growing market.”
The global contractor signed a memorandum of understanding with North America’s Building Trades Unions to advance union apprenticeship training to deliver advanced nuclear projects at scale.
US organized labor chief warns that project "uncertainty and instability” are “incompatible with building the high-road construction workforce America urgently needs at this time.”
Minnesota tradeswoman was bludgeoned at her equipment and systems manufacturing facility workplace by a male co-worker who allegedly told police he disliked her.
Global contractor launches five-year link with suicide prevention foundation to reduce high number of suicide-caused deaths in construction, a "shameful statistic," said CEO Brendan Bechtel.
North American Building Trades Union study finds work-life support lacking, while discrimination and sex harassment remain biggest challenges in National Center for Construction Education and Research survey of 770 women.