Construction industry leaders from around the nation will soon be gathering for The Association of Union Constructors’ (TAUC) annual conference in Washington D.C.
This year’s event, entitled “State of the Union…Construction Industry,” will be held Dec. 4, 2007 and will focus on the current state of the American union construction industry. The forum agenda will include: a legislative update on construction industry issues; TAUC chairmen reports from the Labor Committee and the Safety and Health Committee; a panel on enhanced welding certification programs; and a panel on achieving a zero-injury workplace. The featured speaker at the event will be Mark Ayers, newly elected president of the Building and Construction Trades Department.
“As the newly elected President of the Building & Construction Trades Department, I believe that the TAUC Winter Forum is a very significant and important event, mainly because it provides an opportunity for all segments of the union construction industry – contractors, owner representatives, and labor leaders – to exchange ideas and best practices, and to collectively, and substantively, engage in practical and strategic discussions over those issues that are central to the advancement of our common interests,” said Mark Ayers, President of the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), AFL-CIO.
“This event will serve to not only inform the country’s most prominent union contractors about the health and safety, workforce and political issues facing our industry; it will also provide a significant opportunity for open discussion on how we, as a community of concerned union contractors, can improve the current state of our industry,” TAUC President Robert Hoover said.
“This event is consistent with our mission to educate our membership in order to promote enhanced labor-management cooperation, advanced workplace safety and health programs, and to work collaboratively with the construction user to help union contractors compete more effectively in the marketplace,” TAUC CEO Steve Lindauer.
For more information on this important industry event, please visit www.tauc.org. |
