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Seven Construction Associations You Should Consider Joining

Fieldwire

Union organizations are not listed here, but also provide many similar benefits to members. Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC) : A trade association based on the merit shop philosophy, ABC helps members develop people, win work and deliver work safely, ethically and profitably.

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#97:  DOL's New Independent Contractor Regulation

NH Construction Law

Unions hate it. Biden’s nominee for Labor Secretary, Boston mayor Marty Walsh, is a former union official and former leader of Boston’s Building and Construction Trades Council – so it is easy to predict where his sympathies lie. Business interests like it.

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#94:  Trump, Biden and the Construction Industry

NH Construction Law

The rule would test whether a worker is in business for himself or herself (independent contractor) or is economically dependent on a putative employer for work (employee), by focusing on the nature and degree of the worker’s control over the work and the worker’s opportunity for profit or loss based on initiative and/or investment.