Labor

This comprehensive seminar webinar on suicide prevention and awareness is designed specifically for construction companies and associations, addressing the alarming rates of suicide within the sector.
This seminar not only highlights the critical risk factors but also equips your team with practical tools to foster a supportive and empathetic work environment.
By attending, you will learn how to recognize warning signs, create a culture of vulnerability, and implement effective intervention strategies.

Be recognized as a Professional Foreman, Leader, and Manager!

The Five Minute Foreman isn’t just a workshop—it’s a bestselling leadership book that has shaped the careers of thousands of construction leaders. With 70,000+ books distributed and 20,000+ field leaders trained, it’s become the industry’s go-to leadership system for the people who build the work.

Top contractors—including API Group, Mortenson, and Michels—rely on this proven training to strengthen field leadership, elevate communication, and drive consistent job-site results.

When it comes to day-to-day labor relations, nothing is more time-consuming and costly to an employer than a grievance. How you respond can be the difference between a quick and cheap resolution and a long, time-intensive ordeal with a big bill. Learn how to respond, mitigate, and resolve these disputes with minimal time investment and cost by understanding the process and steps. 

Get up to date with new construction industry employment laws affecting your organization’s policies and practices.

This program will discuss new laws and court decisions and provide strategies on how to implement new requirements at your company. 

What You Will Learn

• Review the labor & employment laws that were passed in 2025 that will affect the Construction Industry
• Discuss what the new laws mean for you.
• Discuss the implementation of the new requirements

Target Audience

UCON Members
 

This course, presented by Workers Comp experts, will cover best practices for contractors around dealing with Workers comp, including the value of Workers Comp Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs available to union contractors, union agreement provisions that can help limit lost work days and impacts to your mod rate, and strategic guidance for contractors from a former Workers Comp judge. 

This class is for anyone responsible for ensuring that their company has a workforce compliant with Skilled & Trained Workforce (STW) guidelines.

STW is not just a compliance issue; it’s a competitive issue that increasingly favors those who get up to speed early. In 45 minutes, you and your team will clearly understand the STW framework, get clear steps on the fastest ways to get compliant, and learn how to respond effectively to STW compliance requests.

Unexpected overtime can make or break your bottom line.

Yet, the rules are easy to misinterpret or take for granted, causing cost creep and wage claims. Join this class to make sure your team knows how to take advantage of overtime and Special Single Shift (SSS) rules under the Laborers, OE3, Carpenters, and Cement Masons Master Agreements.

Love them or hate them, PLAs are an increasingly common feature of the industry and one that contractors need to get more sophisticated at to survive. If you or your organization is not confident in how to navigate PLAs, you’re not alone. UCON can show you how through this short training that will teach participants how to quickly read and interpret PLAs, anticipate issues, and effectively maneuver through targeted hiring and other requirements.

This course, presented by Workers Comp experts, will cover best practices for contractors around dealing with Workers comp, including the value of Workers Comp Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs available to union contractors, union agreement provisions that can help limit lost work days and impacts to your mod rate, and strategic guidance for contractors from a former Workers Comp judge. 

Contractors are, unfortunately, easy targets for all kinds of legal claims. But did you know that your CBAs contain provisions that, if used correctly, can deter, divert, or eliminate PAGA and other employment-related claims?

Join United Contractors along with our legal partners Paul Simpson of Simpson, Garrity, Innes, & Jacuzzi, and Brent Garrett of AALRR on mitigating and prevail in outside claims. 

Love them or hate them, PLAs are an increasingly common feature of the industry and one that contractors need to get more sophisticated at to survive. If you or your organization is not confident in how to navigate PLAs, you’re not alone. UCON can show you how through this short training that will teach participants how to quickly read and interpret PLAs, anticipate issues, and effectively maneuver through targeted hiring and other requirements.

Get up to date with new construction industry employment laws affecting your organization’s policies and practices.

This program will discuss new laws and court decisions and provide strategies on how to implement new requirements at your company. 

What You Will Learn

• Review the labor & employment laws that were passed in 2022 that will affect the Construction Industry
• Discuss what the new laws mean for you.
• Discuss the implementation of the new requirements

Target Audience

UCON Members
 

Join us for UCON’s 2025 Legislative Recap, an inside look at this year’s most important industry policy battles and outcomes.

Learn from UCON’s Government Relations team as they unpack the key outcomes of the 2025 legislative session and what they mean for union contractors statewide.

From the bills we championed to improve contractor cash flow and protect highway worker safety, to the harmful proposals we defeated, this session will give you the insights you need to stay informed and prepared.

This class is for anyone responsible for ensuring that their company has a workforce compliant with Skilled & Trained Workforce (STW) guidelines.

STW is not just a compliance issue; it’s a competitive issue that increasingly favors those who get up to speed early. In 45 minutes, you and your team will clearly understand the STW framework, get clear steps on the fastest ways to get compliant, and learn how to respond effectively to STW compliance requests.

Love them or hate them, PLAs are an increasingly common feature of the industry and one that contractors need to get more sophisticated at to survive. If you or your organization is not confident in how to navigate PLAs, you’re not alone. UCON can show you how through this short training that will teach participants how to quickly read and interpret PLAs, anticipate issues, and effectively maneuver through targeted hiring and other requirements.

This course, presented by Workers Comp experts, will cover best practices for contractors around dealing with Workers comp, including the value of Workers Comp Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) programs available to union contractors, union agreement provisions that can help limit lost work days and impacts to your mod rate, and strategic guidance for contractors from a former Workers Comp judge. 

This class provides clarity on meal and rest period obligations, including a thorough understanding of how to mitigate the financial costs associated with missing breaks, saving your company thousands each year. The module also provides best practices on how to manage meal and rest periods across your company and expertly prepare and defend against legal claims. 

Unnecessary overtime can make or break your bottom line. Yet, the rules are easy to misinterpret or take for granted, causing cost creep and wage claims. Join this class to make sure you and your team is taking advantage of all the nuances of the TCHIA (N. CA), Laborers (N. CA) MLA and Laborers (S. CA) MLA to stay competitive and mitigate unnecessary costs.

Unnecessary overtime can make or break your bottom line. Yet, the rules are easy to misinterpret or take for granted, causing cost creep and wage claims. Join this class to make sure you and your team is taking advantage of all the nuances of the TCHIA (N. CA) and PHI (S. CA) to stay competitive and mitigate unnecessary costs.

Unexpected overtime can make or break your bottom line.

Yet, the rules are easy to misinterpret or take for granted, causing cost creep and wage claims. Join this class to make sure your team knows how to take advantage of overtime and Special Single Shift (SSS) rules under the Laborers, OE3, Carpenters, and Cement Masons Master Agreements.