Your News for January 11, 2016
Where Will You be in March?
Need Recruiting Strategies that Work_ Find Them at MCAA 2016
How's Your Technology Know-How?

If you think it could use a boost, be sure to stop by James Benham's sessions during MCAA 2016 (March 20-24, Orlando, FL). During three sessions, Benham will bring you up to date on what's new with industry technologies and how best to solve your data management, security and project planning challenges with current and still-to-come devices.
MCAA Fabrication Conference
Mark Your Calendar for Fabrication Conference Registration Opening

Registration for MCAA's 2016 Fabrication Conference (May 4-6, Austin, TX) will open at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on January 15.
Celebrate Your Company's Great Safety Record

An excellent safety record is something to celebrate, and receiving an MCAA Safety Award marks that accomplishment. If you believe your company's safety performance in 2015 should be recognized, then submit an application for the award.
Sales Leadership Symposium
Enhance Profitability with MSCA's Sales Leadership Symposium

Leadership always starts at the top, so your service sales team's success starts with the sales leader. MSCA is offering the Sales Leadership Symposium, the first of its kind in the industry, on January 26-27, 2016, in Phoenix, AZ.
MCAA Great Futures
2016...MCAA's Year of the Intern Continues

MCAA's Foundation, MCERF, is continuing to support MCAA's Year of the Intern. Throughout 2016, MCAA and MSCA member companies will be able to apply for up to two $1,200 internship grants from MCERF.
Advanced Leadership Institute
Apply to ALI Course 16

If your To-Do List for 2016 includes applying to MCAA's Advanced Leadership Institute (ALI) Course 16, do it now and check it off. The course is already one-third full.
ALI -G
ALI-G is the Next Best Thing

ALI graduates want to keep acquiring leadership and strategic planning skills, and the ALI-G gives them that opportunity. It's a three-day, high-intensity program that enhances and builds on the knowledge, skills and experience gained at Babson.
U.S. Capitol
Action on Multiemployer Pension Reform Phase 2 Kicks Off

Multiemployer pension reform, Phase 2, will begin this week with a briefing on the issue by House Education and Workforce Committee leadership Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee Chairman Dr. Phil Roe (R-TN).
Develop Your Entry-Level Service Sales Team
Develop Your Entry-Level Service Sales Team

Accelerate the performance of employees new to service sales and/or the HVACR and plumbing industry with MSCA's Sales Basecamp. To be held February 1-2, 2016, in Orlando, FL, this program will provide the means for employees to build the skills they need to confidently sell services while creating added value for the customer.
Sign Up for Construction Apps Webinar

Construction applications are changing the way contractors perform work on the jobsite. On January 14, 1:00 p.m., MCAA will host a webinar, led by Ron McKinney (Atlanta, GA), that will walk you through five key workflows that have changed for mechanical and plumbing contractors.
Safety Directors_ Conference
Safety Conference Scores Record Attendance

Registration for MCAA's 13th annual Safety Directors' Conference exceeds 200 for the first time. The conference has grown each year since its inception in 2004 when attendance was just under 30 participants. And, 29 UA representatives are also attending, an increase from 2015, when the UA first participated. Thirteen consecutive years of rising attendance at this conference underscores MCAA members' determined commitment to enhancing mechanical construction and service worker safety. This year's conference will be presented January 26-28 in Tempe, AZ.
MCAA Seeks Delay on Affirmative Action and Non-Discrimination Regs
MCAA Seeks Delay on Affirmative Action and Non-Discrimination Regs

As the last year of the Obama Administration begins, regulatory activity is intensifying to get long-delayed initiatives off the regulatory docket and into regulations before the end of the legislative year to avoid Congressional suspension and review of midnight regulations. One issue concerns new and much more comprehensive affirmative action and non-discrimination regulations proposed for registered apprenticeship programs.
MCAA Takes Action on Paid Sick Leave Executive Order
MCAA Takes Action on Paid Sick Leave Executive Order

MCAA filed comments on the Administration's Paid Sick Leave Executive Order (EO) 13706, which also is under an expedited path for final publication for mid-2016 and implementation in 2017. The EO would require direct federal prime contractors and subcontractors to provide paid sick leave (one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked) on a covered federal contract or subcontract of $2,000 or more. The minimum annual amount of leave is 56 hours, which can be carried over on an annual basis and reinstated after breaks in service of less than a year.
MCAA Student Chapter Summit Makes BuiltWorlds___ Top 10 Videos
MCAA Student Chapter Summit Makes BuiltWorlds' Top 10 Videos

MCAA's 2015 Student Chapter Summit, which brought together more than 200 future industry professionals, faculty advisors, MCAA contractor members and local association executives in Cleveland, OH last October, made BuiltWorlds' top 10 videos of the year. BuiltWorlds, a Chicago-based organization that promotes companies that develop technologies for the construction industry, organized an exhibit of vendors that displayed a variety of technologies that contractors are...or will...use on the jobsite and in the office. MCAA student chapter members were filmed testing the new technologies and discussing their features and applications with the vendors.
MCERF
Mueller Industries Contributes to MCERF

The Mechanical Contracting Education & Research Foundation (MCERF) recently received a $50,000 contribution from Mueller Industries, Inc. (Memphis, TN), the final payment on its $100,000 pledge. Mueller is MCERF's latest Partnership Enterprise member (those who have contributed at least $100,000)! The MCERF Board of Trustees greatly appreciates the generous support which will allow the Foundation to continue funding programs that help our industry grow and thrive. Still thinking about making a donation? Click on the link below for more reasons to write the check.
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