Reports & Research
As National FCA comes across information and articles of interest related to important aspects of the collective bargaining process, we will make them available to our members here. Please browse what we have on file.
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Labor Management Reports
One of the top-of-mind questions for all unionized contractors is how to be competitive and to sustain and regain market share. Industry expert Mark Breslin, who has spent the bulk of his professional career representing union construction contractors, offers some fresh approaches in the articles below. Breslin is a frequent speaker at the LMCI's Finishing Industries Forum; topics range from what’s wrong with the current state of labor-management relations to what we all can do to put the industry back on track.
- Rank & File Codes of Conduct: Changing the Union Workplace
- Culture for Market Recovery
- Organizing: An Analysis of Options and Alternatives
- Strategic Alliances, Consolidation & Mergers
- Breeding Alpha Dogs: The Supervision ROI
CLRC Reports
Five Year Averages // Union Wages and Supplements
By Region: April 2004 - April 2009
- Painters
- Carpenters
By City: April 2004 - April 2009
- Painters
- Carpenters
By Region: October 2004 - October 2009
- Painters
- Carpenters
By City: October 2004 - October 2009
- Painters
- Carpenters
Wage Rate Changes October, 2002-2008
- 5 YearRegion Dollar Averages (A-I)
- 5 Year Region Dollar Averages (J-Z)
- 5 Year Region Percentage Averages (A-I)
- 5 Year Region Percentage Averages (J-Z)
- 5 Year City Dollar Averages (A-I)
- 5Year City Dollar Averages (J-Z)
- 5 Year City Percentage Averages (A-I)
- 5 Year City Percentage Averages (L-Z)
Wage Averages
- Settlements - 2008
- Settlements- September, 2007
- Cost of Terms & Conditions
- Region Averages for Union Wages and Supplements
- City Averages for Union Wages and Supplements
- Region Averages
- Union Wages
- Wage and Benefit Settlements in Construction - 2004
- Data on Wage Rate Changes - October 2000 to October - 2005
Labor Rate Trends and Outlook
- February 2009
- 2007
- 2005
- Union v. Non-Union Trends in the Construction Industry - 2005
- Craft Labor Supply Outlook 2005 - 2015
Special Reports
- Davis-Bacon Act: A Summary Guide
- Getting Paid in Troubled Times: Important Contractual Issues
- National FCA Legal Opinion: Contractor Liability Under IUPAT Top Workplace Performance Plan
- Collective Bargaining Settlements 2004 for local FCA Affiliates with IUPAT
- Collective Bargaining Settlements 2005 for local FCA Affiliates with IUPAT
- Construction Industry Issues Poll 2003 - NEA
- Meeting the Workforce Needs of the Unionized Sheet Metal Industry
- Dues Check-off - IUPAT Remittance Policy When Working Out of Home Area
- Health Care Report 2004 - MCAA
- Work Schedules and Pay Provisions - IUPAT vs. All Building Trades CBAs - November 2004
Canadian Reports
- Ontario Settlements - Nov. 2008
- Canadian Government Increases Time Foreign Workers Can be in the Country
