AGC Union Contractors Forum Meets May 5 to Review Labor Cost Data
AGC of America’s Union Contractors Forum holds its next quarterly virtual meeting on Tuesday, May 5, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Carey Peters of the Construction Labor Research Council will present key takeaways from recent union labor cost research. The article is a brief registration notice with no additional detail on the full agenda. It is relevant to GCs operating under collective bargaining agreements.
If you’re pricing union work in 2026 and you’re not tracking CLRC data, your labor burden assumptions are probably stale. Union wage and benefit packages have moved materially in the past 18 months, and those shifts compound fast in a multi-trade estimate. The forum is a short meeting, but Peters’ CLRC presentation is worth the 60 minutes, specifically the fringe and total package numbers, which is where most estimators undercount. Build the correct fully-loaded rate before the next bid goes out, not after the project is awarded.
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