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ABC Employers in New York risk civil lawsuits if they don’t properly train employees on administering first aid to colleagues who overdose on opioids, business advocates warned. The litigation threat comes as a new state law is scheduled to go into effect in June requiring employers to include an opioid antagonist such as naloxone in their first-aid…

ABC As required under the Constitution of the State of New York, Governor Kathy Hochul presented her annual message to the Legislature regarding the “State of the State” on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 in a speech delivered at the State Capitol in Albany. Listed below are some of the highlighted items of the Governor’s address. Attached is a document…

ABC ABC Empire State Chapter Calls for Action to End New York’s Affordability Crisis For years elected officials in Albany have been swayed by special-interest campaign contributions, leading to policies that drive up costs. The past few years have been especially egregious, from project labor agreements, or PLAs, to an expansion of prevailing wage mandates…

ABC New York City’s outgoing Mayor Eric Adams recently announced two major Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) covering more than $7 billion in city capital projects such as recreation centres, libraries, clean energy systems, water treatment facilities and other infrastructure. While designed to guarantee fair wages, benefits and set safety rules and training standards, the agreements…

ABC The news of Thomas “Murph” Murphy being elected 2026 chair of the ABC National Board of Directors has been included in the Business & Industry Connection Magazine. Read the full story here: ABC names 2026 National Chair, Executive Committee – BIC Magazine Associated Builders and Contractors announced that Thomas “Murph” Murphy, vice president of Power &…

ABC WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-The construction industry added 19,000 jobs on net in September, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On a year-over-year basis, industry employment has grown by 38,000 jobs, an increase of 0.5%. Nonresidential construction employment increased by 16,300 positions, with gains in…

ABC SYRACUSE, NY, Nov. 19- The Empire State Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors today announced Ken Gardiner, CPA, CCIFP, partner, Dannible & McKee, LLP, Syracuse, New York was elected as Treasurer of the association during its meeting at the association’s annual Leadership Institute in Marco Island, Florida. Throughout his years working with ABC and the decades of experience he has…

ABC ROCHESTER, NY, Nov. 19- The Empire State Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors today announced Thomas “Murph” Murphy, vice president, Power & Construction Group, Scottsville, New York, was elected as Chair of the ABC National Board of Directors during its meeting at the association’s annual Leadership Institute in Marco Island, Florida. “I am blessed and honored to serve ABC and its members in the role…

ABC Associated Builders and Contractors is a National Trade Association representing more than 23,000 construction companies across the country.   ABC has stood for one simple idea: Merit matters.   That means people and companies succeed based on what they bring to the table, not who they know or what group they belong to.   Learn more…

ABC The Empire State Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), representing more than 450 merit-shop contractors and subcontractors employing hundreds of thousands of workers throughout New York state, is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to reject the proposed prevailing-wage mandates on Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) projects. Since the early 2000s, the BCP has…