We've been telling you for months that a worker shortage is a reality and the evidence continues to roll in that we've been correct. YNN Austin now reports that the building boom...
Awareness and Recruiting
Are schools, organizations and media portraying the richness, variety and vitality of construction careers? Recruiting and renewing a sustainable work force means embracing a positive image for our industry, reinforcing it with our education and industry partners and fulfilling its promise through socially responsible industry practices.
On Wednesday, March 20th, Construction Career Day was held on the Warren High School campus in San Antonio, Texas – the site of Northside Independent School District’s...
No, that is not in reference to the rise in births after the storms on the East Coast, it refers to the shortages in skilled labor that are beginning to be a real concern for the...
Last Wednesday was a great day for reflection about the workforce issue, at least for me. It began at a lunch gathering of Associated Builders and Contractors Past...
In the past several weeks, I have been asked by local media to comment on the labor shortage in the commercial construction industry and how it is impacting the consumer. ...
Last Friday marked a momentous occasion for our country, as a group of craft professionals bolted the spire for the new World Trade Center into place 1,776 feet above the ground...
A recent blog in the New York Times is only one indicator that the last five years have been totally devastating on the skilled workforce in this country. The unwritten, but...
Last month some high school students attended a drywall installation clinic at Pasadena ISD’s L.P. Card Career and Technical Center led by a team from the Houston division of...
