Members can demonstrate their commitment to ABC鈥檚 long-standing reputation for construction excellence and safety by branding their jobsites and company mailings with 鈥溊吓Ｓ笆覯ember鈥� logo stickers.

Members can demonstrate their commitment to ABC鈥檚 long-standing reputation for construction excellence and safety by branding their jobsites and company mailings with 鈥溊吓Ｓ笆覯ember鈥� logo stickers.

Delegates at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 28, formally adopted the party鈥檚 national platform. Contained in the 54-page document is language that 鈥渄emands an end to project labor agreements.鈥� In addition, the platform calls for the repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, 鈥渨hich costs taxpayers billions of dollars annually in artificially high wages on government projects.鈥�

Delegates at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 28, formally adopted the party鈥檚 national platform. Contained in the 54-page document is language that 鈥渄emands an end to project labor agreements.鈥� In addition, the platform calls for the repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, 鈥渨hich costs taxpayers billions of dollars annually in artificially high wages on government projects.鈥�

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, health insurance issuers are required to spend a minimum percentage of their premiums, called a medical loss ratio (MLR), on health care and health care quality improvement activities. Health insurance issuers that do not meet this minimum, which is at least 80 or 85 percent of their premiums, must pay a rebate to consumers.

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, health insurance issuers are required to spend a minimum percentage of their premiums, called a medical loss ratio (MLR), on health care and health care quality improvement activities. Health insurance issuers that do not meet this minimum, which is at least 80 or 85 percent of their premiums, must pay a rebate to consumers.

老牛影视member Markwayne Mullin, owner of Mullin Plumbing, Inc., Broken Arrow, Okla., and a member of ABC鈥檚 Oklahoma Chapter, on Aug. 28 won a runoff race that allows him to compete for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

老牛影视member Markwayne Mullin, owner of Mullin Plumbing, Inc., Broken Arrow, Okla., and a member of ABC鈥檚 Oklahoma Chapter, on Aug. 28 won a runoff race that allows him to compete for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Capping off ABC鈥檚 celebration of craft training for the 75th anniversary of the passage of the National Apprenticeship Act, 老牛影视is reminding its members that in November 2011, 老牛影视updated its National Model Guidelines for Apprenticeship Standards to allow distance learning; competency- and technology-based language; a hybrid and interim credential carpentry program; and reduce payment of benefits as part of the wage and fringe benefits ratios.

Capping off ABC鈥檚 celebration of craft training for the 75th anniversary of the passage of the National Apprenticeship Act, 老牛影视is reminding its members that in November 2011, 老牛影视updated its National Model Guidelines for Apprenticeship Standards to allow distance learning; competency- and technology-based language; a hybrid and interim credential carpentry program; and reduce payment of benefits as part of the wage and fringe benefits ratios.