Industry's August unemployment rate slipped to 3.6% from July's 3.8% but rose from year-earlier 3.4%.

Building trades back, and ABC opposes, construction exemption from proposed new apprenticeship program.

Construction added 21,000 jobs in June, up from gain of 5,000 the previous month.

Industry recoups nearly two-thirds of the 25,000 jobs it lost in February, Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

Economists say severe weather helped cause job losses.

Industry's unemployment rate rises to 6.4% from December's 5.1% but improves from year-earlier 7.3%.

BLS reports construction added 5,000 jobs in Nov., a more modest gain than in Oct. and Sept.