Virtual

2024 New Industry Law Updates

  • December 10, 2024 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PST

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
 

Up on the High Wire: Cultivating Mental Resiliency to Get Us through Tough Times

  • May 14, 2024 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PDT

Are we doing enough to invest in mental health and “mental resiliency”?

What does it actually mean to be emotionally fit and psychologically hardy? With increasing demands to do more with less and perform with polish, people need coping tools and emotional inoculation to get them through challenges. This keynote looks at the issue of mental wellness and gives participants the tools to help themselves and others sustain a passion for living over the long haul.

How to Make Yourself Indispensable and Build a Rewarding Career

  • August 18, 2022 2:30pm  -  4:30pm PDT

When you start your career, you have no skills and no friends. You have to get busy acquiring skills and building your network. This session will show you how to craft a realistic career goal. Understand where you are in your career journey. Figure out the roadblocks to achieving your goals, and build a plan to overcome the roadblocks, so you make yourself indispensable and build a rewarding career.

WIP It! Upgrading the WIP Schedule to a Management Tool

  • August 02, 2022 2:30pm  -  3:30pm PDT

This is a two-part session taking place on August 2 and August 9 from 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm each day. The class takes a deep dive into preparing the work in process schedule and how these schedules can provide value to many segments of the Contractor’s business. The goal is to create a tool that expands further than just financial reporting.

Safety & Insurance Committee Meeting January 2023

  • January 11, 2023 1:30pm  -  3:00pm PST

The Safety & Insurance Committee provides the membership with information on safe operations 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. 

January topic/presentation: Driver Safety with Officer Tyler Hahn, California Highway Patrol.

Safety & Insurance Committee Meeting - Registration

  • September 14, 2022 1:30pm  -  3:00pm PDT

Sam Hall, VP, Damage Prevention Institute. The program successor to the Gold Shovel Program.
Meet Clay O'Neal, UCON's Regional VP – Southern California. 
Held via Zoom. 

Caltrans Liaison Meeting 2022 - Q3

  • August 30, 2022 8:00am  -  12:00pm PDT

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.

Topics include DBE challenges for all stakeholders, safety updates, materials testing, DRB processes, payment procedures, specification updates and more.

Join us for this 3rd quarterly meeting via Webex and actively engage with Caltrans officials at the highest levels to provide key industry input.

Caltrans Liaison Meeting 2022 - Q4

  • December 06, 2022 9:00am  -  12:00pm PST

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.

Topics include DBE challenges for all stakeholders, safety updates, materials testing, DRB processes, payment procedures, specification updates and more.

Join us for this 4th quarterly hybrid meeting and engage with Caltrans officials at the highest levels to provide key industry input.