AGC Collective Bargaining Training Opens for October 2026

AGC of America is offering a two-day Collective Bargaining Training on October 15 and 16, 2026, in Chicago. The course is aimed at AGC chapter labor relations staff and union contractor members, with the stated goal of improving management’s negotiating skills and preparation for the bargaining table. The article covers registration details and the course’s expanded format under expert instruction. Scope is narrowly focused on the training opportunity itself.

The timing is worth paying attention to. A lot of union agreements are cycling through renegotiation right now, and the labor rate assumptions baked into bids from 18 months ago are increasingly wrong. Estimators at union shops who aren’t involved in the bargaining conversations often inherit the results without any context for how the numbers moved. Sending someone from preconstruction to a course like this isn’t standard practice, but it probably should be. Understanding what’s being traded at the table changes how you build escalation into long-duration bids.

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