Nonresidential specialty contractors segment shows strongest results.

Industry's workplace fatalities dip 5% in 2020, but fatality rate is up to 10.2 per 100,000 workers from 9.7.

Anirban Basu, chief economist for Associated Builders and Contractors and CEO of consulting firm Sage Policy Group, expects projects from the new infrastructure package to be released in next year's third and fourth quarters.

The unemployment rate was up from October level but has improved year over year.

Parker's first big task: implementing expected standard mandating worker vaccination or testing for COVId-19.

Job losses in nonresidential segments outpaced gains in residential sector.

Totals pulled down by loss of 11,800 jobs in nonresidential specialty trade firms.

Building trades strongly support the bill, but contractor groups vociferously oppose it.

Specialty trade contractors saw the greatest job losses while the industry jobless rate worsened on monthly, year-over-year measures.

Unions praise bill, contractor groups say it puts training programs not affiliated with unions at a disadvantage.