General Contractors, Construction Managers, Developers & Design-Builders
ACT Ohio promotes policies, advocates for industry regulation, and supports programs that benefit the state’s qualified, responsible general contractors, construction managers, developers, and design-builders. These include:
- Prevailing Wage: Providing skilled construction-trades crafts workers with fair wages and benefits helps build a strong workforce of highly-skilled, committed tradespeople. To learn more, click here.
- Apprenticeship and Training: ACT Ohio helps recruit the next generation of Building Trades craftspeople through affiliate Joint Area Training Councils (JATCs). Apprentices learn their crafts tuition-free in state-of-the-art training facilities. These certified and regulated apprenticeship programs ensure construction contractors and employers have a large pool of properly trained and skilled crafts workers for their projects. To learn more, click here.
- Workplace Safety: Thoroughly training workers to be safe and adhere to OSHA standards not only helps protect lives on a construction site, it also helps ensure general contractors, construction managers, developers and design-builders are protecting their investments into the workforce and construction projects are completed without costly delays. To learn more, click here.
- Drug-Free Workforce: Affiliate collective bargaining agreements require that 100% of ACT Ohio’s more than 92,000 skilled craftspeople are subject to random, mandatory drug testing, in addition to annual mandatory testing. This requirement helps protects lives and helps protect the bottom line for contractors, construction managers, developers and design-builders who are ensured they have an unimpeded and fully engaged workforce on their construction projects. To learn more, click here.
Construction Professionals – NEWS
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2015 Union Membership Report Released
The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued its 2015 Union Membership Report. The report details trends and statistics within the organized labor community. The public sector led in unionized membership, with 35.2%, representing more than five times that of private-sector workers at 6.7%. New York had the highest union membership rate at 24.7%, while South Carolina had the lowest at 2.1%.
Kasich Names IBEW Apprentice Expert to State Workforce Board
Ohio Governor John Kasich recently named one of the state’s top apprentice advocates to the Governor’s Executive Workforce Board, an association of business leaders that forecast the skill needs of employers.
Stephen Lipster, Director of the Electrical Trades Center, received the appointment from Governor Kasich in July. The choice of Lipter to fill the Board’s vacancy is an important step for industries who rely on apprentices such as construction. If there is one person in the state who has the experience to advocate for apprenticeships, it is Lipster, who has been actively involved with apprenticeships since 1984.