ABC issues news releases on the latest workforce, policy and industry issues, as well as construction-related economic data and trends. Commercial and industrial construction economic analyses include federal data on construction spending, employment, job openings and the Producer Price Index. 

In addition, ABC produces the Construction Backlog Indicator, the only economic indicator that reflects the amount of work that will be performed by commercial and industrial construction contractors in the months ahead, and the Construction Confidence Index, a diffusion index that signals construction contractors’ expectations for sales, profit margins and staffing levels. Methodology for both indicators can be found here. ABC construction economic releases are published according to this schedule for 2023.  

For media inquiries, please contact Erika Walter, ABC’s director of media relations at [email protected] or (202)905-2104 

Click here to subscribe to ABC’s news releases or here to receive ABC's weekly newsletter, Newsline. 

Archives

2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012

Minimize
Search by Category   

Search
Reset
 

News Releases

Posts Tagged 'Davis-Bacon Act'

We are pleased to present below all posts tagged with 'Davis-Bacon Act'. If you still can't find what you are looking for, try using the search box.

ABC to Biden Administration: Withdraw the DOL’s Davis-Bacon Proposed Rule

Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 7:55 AM By Erika Walter

WASHINGTON, May 18—In a comment letter filed on May 17, Associated Builders and Contractors urged President Biden’s U.S. Department of Labor to withdraw an inflationary and flawed proposed rule revising Davis-Bacon Act and Related Acts regulations that apply to federal and federally assisted construction projects funded by taxpayers.

, , ,

Inflationary Davis-Bacon Prevailing Wages Cost Taxpayers More for Public Works Projects

Posted on Monday, May 16, 2022 10:55 AM By Donna Reichle

WASHINGTON, May 16—The flawed method used by the federal government to calculate “prevailing wages” under the 91-year-old Davis-Bacon Act adds at least 7.2% to the cost of federal and federally assisted construction projects and inflates wages by 20.2% compared to local market averages, according to a new report from the Beacon Hill Institute. Associated Builders and Contractors has called on the U.S. Department of Labor to modernize its wage determination process for decades, but a proposed rule the agency released on March 18 actually makes this archaic and unscientific process even more inaccurate, inflationary and biased.

, , , , , , ,

ABC: Biden’s Proposed Davis-Bacon Act Reforms Are More Pork for Special Interests

Posted on Friday, March 11, 2022 11:58 AM By Donna Reichle

WASHINGTON, March 11—Associated Builders and Contractors today released the following statement from Ben Brubeck, ABC vice president of regulatory, labor and state affairs, in reaction to the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed rule, Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations. The 1931 Davis-Bacon Act and related regulations require contractors and subcontractors that perform work on federal and federally funded construction projects to pay a government-determined prevailing wage and benefit rate on an hourly basis to on-site construction workers. The Davis-Bacon Act and 71 active related acts collectively apply to an estimated $217 billion in federal and federally assisted construction spending per year and provide government-determined wage rates for an estimated 1.2 million U.S. construction workers.

, , , , ,

ABC: Partisan House-passed Infrastructure Package Hurts American Workers and Small Businesses

Posted on Thursday, July 1, 2021 4:46 PM By Donna Reichle

WASHINGTON, July 1—Associated Builders and Contractors strongly opposes H.R. 3684, the INVEST in America Act, a partisan infrastructure bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives today by a vote of 221-201. H.R. 3684 is a $715 billion surface transportation reauthorization and water infrastructure bill that represents House Democrat’s attempt to reauthorize the expiring 2015 Fast Act.

, , , ,

ABC Praises Trump Administration Regulatory Rollbacks in SBA Testimony

Posted on Monday, August 28, 2017 10:57 AM By Donna Reichle

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today praised the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back burdensome regulations that drive up construction costs and hold back small business hiring and expansion. 

Testifying at the 2017 National Regulatory Fairness Hearing at the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of the National Ombudsman on Aug. 28, ABC General Counsel Maury Baskin Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C. urged action on the “persuader,” overtime and silica rules, the new “joint employer” standard, and other onerous rulemakings and policies.

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

ABC Urges Government Neutrality Toward PLAs, Pushes Davis-Bacon Reform in Reaction to Executive Order on Government Efficiency

Posted on Monday, March 13, 2017 9:23 PM By anonymous

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13 – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today praised President Trump’s executive order calling for greater government efficiency and urged the administration and Congress to take steps to reduce the cost of public construction projects in a statement from ABC Vice President of Labor, Regulatory and State Affairs Ben Brubeck.

, ,

ABC Applauds Appeals Court Decision in CityCenterDC Davis-Bacon Case

Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:56 PM By anonymous

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5—Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) applauded a decision to stop an unprecedented expansion of the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act onto a private construction project that was issued today by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. ABC filed an amicus brief in the case arguing against forcing contractors to pay inaccurate government-determined wage and benefits rates on the CityCenterDC project in Washington, D.C.

,

ABC Celebrates U.S. District Court’s Ruling Against Davis-Bacon Expansion

Posted on Thursday, April 3, 2014 3:27 PM By anonymous

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today celebrated an important decision limiting the scope of the Davis-Bacon Act issued by a U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  In a March 31 decision granting summary judgment to the District of Columbia (the District) and private developer CCDC Office LLC (CCDC), Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) ruling that the Davis-Bacon Act can be expanded to include privately funded projects.

,