In a January 19th Houston Chronicle article entitled, Working: A plea for fair play, L.M. Sixel discusses how due to the economy, many construction companies are resorting to...
Reshaping the Industry
Three actions are necessary to build a thriving, profitable and durable construction industry:
- Acceptance. Recognize current situations and challenges and accept they are real.
- Leadership. Embrace core values and principles as innovators and leaders.
- Solutions. Collaborate among owners, contractors and workforce for solutions.
Is the Economy impacting your training and development budget? In a recent survey conducted by Metri-Mark, Inc., 55% of training managers responded that due to the recent...
In our current economic situation, when money is tight, most subcontractors face the same dilemma. The owners are demanding the least expensive project cost all the while...
This letter is from the first newsletter that we received going into the new year and it is important. It describes one company’s workforce development program that meets...
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is considering interagency collaboration to step up enforcement of worker misclassification violations in Texas, a point they discussed in a...
Cyndi Mergele, Senior Manager at Padgett, Stratemann & Co., L.L.P. in San Antonio, wrote an interesting article for the Construction News, a newspaper focusing on the...
As much as the construction industry wanted to see 2010 come to an end, we are now faced with 2011 as a year of accelerating change. Based on the latest figures from...
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported yesterday:“Eight illegal aliens in a minivan stopped by state police at the turnpike interchange in New Stanton Monday were headed to work...
Interfaith Worker Justice declared November 18, 2010 a National Day of Action Against Wage Theft, and helped organize actions in 50 cities across the United States. ...
