Alabama AGC

Alabama AGC Works to Develop Career Tech in Shoals

The Alabama AGC has been working with Gary Dan Williams, director of the Colbert County Workforce Development Center, on improving construction trade programs at the center. Williams has asked that the AGC participate in developing an electrical program similar to the program AGC founded at Trussville High School.

While work continues on the program, work has begun in earnest on the center. AGC member Carbine Construction Co. is the general contractor on the job. Rusty Carbine attended the groundbreaking ceremony.

The Alabama AGC has been the industry leader in workforce development for more than 90 years. In the last 20 years AGC has worked with secondary schools to certify all high school construction trade programs, to unify curriculum for the programs and to found or offer aid to career technical programs throughout Alabama and the Panhandle of Florida.

Here is a link to more information about the center: http://timesdaily.com/stories/Muscle-Shoals-poised-to-build-career-technical-center-,201780

AGC is pleased to report a big win in court today, with the help of AGC-supported Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.   The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued a decision in Noel Canning v. NLRB, a key case (of several separate cases) challenging the validity of three “recess appointments” President Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012.   The court agreed with CDW and the Chamber that the appointments were “constitutionally invalid” because the Senate was actually not in recess when the appointments were made.  Accordingly, the five-member Board lacked a quorum when it decided the underlying legal issues affecting employer Noel Canning.   The decision could have significant implications, calling into question the validity of all decisions made by the Board in the past year as well as the validity of Richard Cordray’s appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was made under the same circumstances as the Board appointments.

NLRB Chairman Marc Pearce responded to the ruling by issuing a statement asserting his belief that the appointments will ultimately be upheld and reporting that, in the meantime, the Board will continue to issue decisions.

AGC will closely follow any further developments in this case and other cases challenging the appointments.  It is possible that the issue will ultimately go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Denise S. Gold

Quality People.  Quality Projects.

AGC of America will be hosting the 94th annual convention at the JW Marriott Deset Springs Resort in Palm Springs, California.

Click here to see the schedule of events at a glance:

2013 AGC of America Convention Schedule at a glance

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http://convention.agc.org/