Last year saw no shortage of conflict between labor and management, with half a million American workers on strike at some point during the year, double the figure of 2022 and four times that of 2021.

Construction is a labor-intensive business. Despite tremendous advances in design, coordination, and management technologies, the physical installation of work in the field remains reliant on people.

QSPC data through Q3 2024 shows that approximately 20.6% of manufacturing plants in the U.S. that failed to produce at their full capacity cited insufficient supply of labor or labor skills as a key ...