Mobile's first bass tournament is chronicled inside. Safe Aiming for politics Stacey Lenderman, with the Young Constructor's Forum, prepares to pull a skeet during the YCF skeet shoot to raise money for the AGC's state PAC fund. The YCF and its efforts will be featured in a story in the national Constructor magazine at the first of 1998. Handling a difficult image Contractors need to shop thinking in hourly wages and look at the annual salary of craftmen to get a truer picture of cost, said Auburn University Building Science Head John Mouton. That's what we're competing with.
Home ownership is one measure of a fair wage.
If your people can't buy homes, shame on us, we deserve our image. A major problem with recruiting top people to the construction industry is the industry's image, Mouton said. We are percieved as unscrupulous. We also are percieved as having a transient work force and a cyclinal demand.