Construction Industry Questionaire

Construction is one of the nation's largest industries

• True

• False

Nearly 8 million workers are employed in the construction industry. Over the next decade one-half million skilled contrustion workers will be added to the supply by all the industry training programs. Industry analyst predict a demand for how many newly trained crafstpeople over the next 10 years?

• 250,000

• 500,000

• 2,000,000

Twenty percent of all manufacturing workers are classified as skilled craftspeople. What percentage of construction workers is classified as skilled craftspeople?

• 25%

• 35%

• 50%

Although construction workers account for 5% of the total work force, we account for what percentage of the industrial accidents?

• 2. 2.5%

• 20%

• 5%

Corporate construction firms like Betchel, Brown & Root, and Turner conprise less than one quarter of all industry employers. These giants account for what percentage of total building revenues?

• 75%

• 50%

• 25%

Eighty Percentage of all construction firms each employ how many workers?

• more than 50

• about 25

• less than 10

Self-employed construction workers accounted for what dollar volume and percentage of total construction business in 2016?

• $71 billion and 11%

• $4.1 billion and 11%

• $7.1 million and 11%

From 1949-2016, labor costs (as a percentage of total costs)

• increased from 15% to 30%

• Remained essentially the same

• Decreases from 30% to 15%

Over the last 30 years, the membership of our local union

• Increased

• Decreased

• Remained the same

During the same period, the demand for our trades' work (union and non-union combined) in the jurisdiction of our local union.

• increased

• Decreased

• Remained the same