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ABC Urges Biden Administration To Withdraw Its Illegal, Ineffective and Costly Apprenticeship Proposed Rule

Associated Builders and Contractors submitted comments on March 18 on the U.S. Department of Labor’s controversial proposed rule overhauling regulations related to government-registered apprenticeship programs, or GRAPs. In more than 40 pages of comments, ABC urged the DOL to withdraw the illegal and misguided provisions of the proposal that will unnecessarily increase costs and…

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Court Blocks NLRB Joint Employer Rule in a Win for ABC

Associated Builders and Contractors applauds the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for vacating the National Labor Relations Board’s 2023 Joint Employer Final Rule and the Board’s rescission of the ABC-supported 2020 Joint Employer Final Rule. Under the court’s decision, the 2020 final rule, which provides clear criteria for companies…

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ABC Calls Out Anti-Competitive Policies and Rhetoric in President Biden’s Address to the Nation

Associated Builders and Contractors President and CEO Michael Bellaman tonight responded to President Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address with the following statement: “President Biden continues to push exclusionary and inflationary agendas and actions that discourage the overwhelming majority of construction workers who do not belong to a…

Jillian Stengel In Government Affairs, News

Gov. Murphy Delivers His 7th State of the State Address

On Tuesday, Governor Murphy gave his seventh State of the State address before a joint session of the State Legislature. The Governor touched on familiar topics including affordability, economic growth, healthcare, affordable housing, organized labor, infrastructure, law enforcement and gun violence. In a departure from his last State of the…

Jillian Stengel In Government Affairs, National, News

ABC Applauds House Committee’s Passage of the Fair and Open Competition Act

Associated Builders and Contractors today applauded the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability’s passage of the Fair and Open Competition Act, H.R. 1209. FOCA would protect federal and federally assisted construction contracts from anti-competitive and inflationary government-mandated project labor agreements and allow merit shop contractors and their skilled employees to…

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ABC Applauds Introduction of Legislation To Promote Fair and Open Competition and Combat Anti-Competitive and Inflationary Project Labor Agreement Mandates

Associated Builders and Contractors today voiced its strong support for the Fair and Open Competition Act (H.R. 1209 / S. 537), which has been reintroduced in the 118th Congress by Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., in the U.S. Senate, and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., in the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 27.…