Committees

The associate members are champions of engagement within UCON by promoting the association's activities and initiatives.

The Attorney Roundtable is a collaboration of UCON attorney members and contractors' in-house attorneys. The Roundtable engages in discussions encompassing a variety of legal and policy issues that impact California's union-contractors. In facilitated meetings, they review and analyze current contractor-member challenges and make policy recommendations that are brought to the Legislative Committee.

The CA Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is the largest state DOT in the nation. The Caltrans-UCON Liaison Committee was established to provide a forum for contractors and Caltrans to improve business relations. The committee meets quarterly at Caltrans HQ in Sacramento and actively engages with Caltrans officials at the highest levels to provide key industry input. Topics include DBE challenges for all stakeholders, safety updates, materials testing, DRB processes, payment procedures, specification updates and more.

UCON CRAFT & LABOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES

UCON’s Labor Executive & Craft Committees are the leadership bodies that set strategy and policy for labor relations statewide as well as drive our partnering programs with the unions to address industry issues such as the skilled labor shortage, industry regulations, and union market share. Committee members can volunteer to negotiate our collective bargaining agreements. Access to the craft committees is limited to contractors who assigned their bargaining rights to United Contractors.

UCON’s Advocacy team exists to improve the market share for union-contractors at all levels. The Legislative Committee serves as the chief platform for members to provide input and ideas on a wide variety of legislation relevant to our contractors. The committee meets twice annually and on an as-needed basis to review, analyze and provide input on a wide variety of policy and legislative matters.

The UCON Political Action Committee (PAC) has proven to be one of the most effective industry PACs in California. It has laid the foundation for some of our most important successes: protecting SB 1 funding, the Road Repair & Accountability Act; securing a construction carve-out for independent truckers under AB 5; legislation to make 5% retention permanent policy in CA; securing the union-contractor market share in public works, defeating extreme environmental and anti-business legislation, and more. And it has paved the way for tens of billions of dollars in federal, state, and local infrastructure measures.

Over the next two years, there will be a record number of open seats and competitive races across the state, which could change the climate of state politics for a generation. It’s more important than ever that we fight to elect and defend candidates who are pro-build, pro-industry, and support union contractors.

The UCON PAC and our allies need you now. It is the one vehicle we have available to support candidates that support our industry. Contributing to the UCON PAC ensures your political dollars protect and defend your business, no matter what size or specialty.

The Regional Executive Council (REC) is a committee that serves the UCON Board of Directors. The primary function of the REC is to be responsible for oversight of the plans, activities, and impacts related to the Southern California region. 

REC Members:

The Safety & Insurance Committee provides the membership with information on safe operation in the industry, increases preventative safety programs, and reduction of liability expenses. The committee monitors and advocates on OSHA issues and develops new safety products for the membership.