Congratulations to the 2019 WIC Poster Contest Winner!

Congratulations to the 2019 WIC Week Poster contest winner, Granite Construction. Jodi Tautfest, Traffic Control Supervisor for Granite Construction, is pictured on the Swift Green Line project in Snohomish County, WA. The project is a Community Transit project installing 32 bus stations along a busy corridor. Jodi, standing next to a truck mounted attenuator (TMA), was making sure the equipment was secure before heading out to the roadway.

Visit the NAWIC Store at the 2018 Annual Conference in Orlando, FL!

We now have new items in the NAWIC Store. Visit us at the 2018 Annual Conference, August 15 - 18 in Orlando, FL to see all of the new items. Be on the lookout for computer totes, cosmetic vanity bags, women’s baseball caps, NAWIC blankets and much more!

The NAWIC Store will be closed July 25 - August 27 for the 2018 NAWIC Annual Conference. Visit the store located in the registration area at the Annual Conference to see the new store items, purchase the conference souvenir t-shirt and pin, and the 2019 WIC Week poster and pin.

For pricing or for more information, call or email Lori Wagner at 800-552-3506 or loriw@nawic.org.

                                        

Camp NAWIC a Success!

2018 was the second year the Chicago Metro chapter #325 held Camp NAWIC. This year the camp had 12 participants, three of which were return students from the previous year! The chapter’s goal was to showcase the variety of career opportunities within the construction industry and were able to utilize member companies to help with the camp. The group visited True North Consulting, an environmental engineering firm, visited two active job sites in the city of Chicago with Walsh Construction, learned about blueprints and estimating at Turner Construction, visited Laurie and Brennan, a construction law firm, and much more. The girls were very engaged and very interested in the different aspects of the industry.

Look for more about the Chicago Metro chapter’s success, along with several other chapters who have held Camp NAWIC this summer in the July/August issue of NAWIC Today!

Annual Conference

There is still time to register for the NAWIC Annual Conference in Orlando, FL, August 15 - 18.

This year, we have changed up the program, adding panels, a closing brunch, two keynote speakers, NEF certificate boot camp and exam, and created the Neighborhood with pop up education, snacks and vendor tables. Register today!

UPS Partnership with NAWIC

• UPS Capital/Kabbage - Small Business Financing: Kabbage and UPS Capital, a subsidiary of UPS that provides supply chain, financial, insurance and payment services have partnered to allow more small-to-medium size businesses access to a small business loan through UPS. Click here for more information.

• UPS Shipping Discount: NAWIC members can save up to 26% off UPS Express air shipments by using code: COR386. Members can also get discounts on freight services with UPS.

• NAWIC receives a small proceed back from UPS as a partnership benefit for the association. 

 

Forty-three states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between June 2017 and June 2018, while 32 states and D.C. added construction jobs between May and June, according to an analysis by AGC of America of Labor Department data released recently. Association officials cautioned that continued job gains may depend on improving the training and education pipeline for workers to enter the industry.

With the help of several associations and labor organizations, Pennsylvania is elevating awareness of the construction opioid crisis by declaring the last week of July Construction Opioid Awareness Week.

Construction costs accelerated again in June, with steep increases for a wide range of building and road construction materials as tariffs against foreign goods come into effect, according to AGC of America of new Labor Department data. Association officials say that contractors will have to assume much of the costs as tariffs increase the costs of many key construction materials.