To improve labor-management relationships, job security, competitiveness, productivity,organizational effectiveness, and economic development.
- Improve communication between representatives of labor and management.
- Provide workers and employers with opportunities to study and explore new and innovative joint approaches to achieving organization effectiveness.
- Assist workers and employers in solving problems of mutual concern not susceptible to resolution within the collective bargaining process.
- Study and explore ways of increasing productivity of both labor and management, and of eliminating potential problems which reduce the competitiveness and inhibit the economic development in the construction industry.
- Enhance the involvement of workers in making decisions that affect their working lives.
- Encourage free collective bargaining by establishing the continuing mechanisms for communication between employers and their employees through federal assistance to the formation and operation of labor-management committees.
- Promote the use of safe, efficient, high quality construction services in development, maintenance, and rehabilitation of commercial, industrial, and residential facilities.
- Seek to maintain a productive dialogue with users of construction services.
- Foster the development of craft skills and high quality training in the construction industry.