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4th Annual BTEA Northeast Golf Tournament
Please join us for a day of networking, golf, and friendly competition in support of the Thomas J. Gunning Fund.
For the past three years, we’ve been privileged to bring our industry together for a sold-out tournament, and we hope you’ll join us again this year. The day will feature special giveaways, top-tier prizes, exciting raffles, and lots of comradery.
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Thomas S. Gunning Scholarship Application Is Open
Employees, immediate family members of employees or immediate family of BTEA Northeast members are eligible to apply for scholarships to attend post-secondary education in college or vocational programs. All applications must be received or postmarked by June 30, 2026.
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Recovery Week 2026
Last week, with your support, we proudly hosted our 6th Annual Recovery Week. From opening night to EAP wellness trainings and our jobsite stand-down, we’re seeing meaningful progress. More open conversations, stronger awareness, and a continued commitment to caring for our most important asset: our people. We hope you will consider taking some of these conversations into safety week and beyond.
If you would like to host an EAP training for your office, shop or field teams throughout the year, please reach out to Jenn (Jenn@btea.com). Recovery Week provides the training and lunch.
More to come but for now, check out photos from the week.
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Tuesday, June 16 | 8:00 AM | Westin Waltham
Crisis Communication
Through real-world examples, mock interviews, and proven communication techniques, participants will learn how to respond quickly, manage employee communications, media and social platforms, and safeguard their company’s standing in the public eye.
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Amicus Brief Filed by Contractor Associations RE: Rent Control
Cole Law Partners P.C. submitted an amicus brief before the Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of a broad coalition of MA construction industry leaders, including BTEA Northeast highlighting a critical issue: policies that create a strict rent cap uniformly have unintended negative impacts. These strict caps directly impact whether housing gets financed, built, and preserved at all. As the data shows, limiting development incentives risks reducing housing supply at a time when the Commonwealth needs it most.
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Turner Shares AI Safety Tech with Broader Industry
SafeT Coach acts as a virtual safety consultant, where users can ask plain language questions and receive answers based on Turner’s environmental, health and safety framework as opposed to the broader internet. SafeT Coach is a custom tool deployed within OpenAI’s ChatGPT environment and is currently being offered free of charge.
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Union Leaders Gear Up to Tackle AI Talks
Unions and other stakeholders are setting their focus on regulating AI in the workplace, with the AFL-CIO calling on Congress and state legislatures to pass AI guardrails. The Trump administration has sent an AI regulatory framework to Congress that leaves out workplace discrimination protections, which unions say is a "full blown deregulation agenda" that will let workers pay the price.
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Maine Governor Vetoes Limits on Data Center
Governor Mills vetoed a bill that would have imposed a ban for more than a year on data centers larger than 20 megawatts in ME. In her statement, she agreed with a moratorium but stated the final version of this bill fails to allow for a specific project that enjoys strong local support from its host community and region. That project is estimated to be $550M and 800+ construction jobs.
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Boston General Contractors Chase Big Projects Nationwide
Boston-area general contractors are increasingly expanding across the U.S. to pursue large-scale projects as local opportunities slow, often following their clients into booming markets like Florida, Las Vegas, and Nashville. Despite the expansion, some developers believe the fundamentals of Boston remain strong.
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Judge Hears Claims of Boston Tax Retaliation
Attorneys for a downtown Boston office landlord and the city of Boston sparred over whether the court system should decide if the Assessing Department engaged in alleged systematic inflation of commercial property valuations. Suffolk Superior Judge Krupp has taken both parties' arguments under advisement but did not state how long he would deliberate before issuing a ruling.
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BPD OKs 1.7M SF in Projects
The most notable projects approved include the first phase of Skanska and Simmons University's Longwood Place project and New England Development's 240-unit Charlestown development at 201 Rutherford Ave.
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MGB Secures $865B+ for Cancer & Cardiovascular Center
MassDevelopment confirmed it issued the tax-exempt bonds for the projected $2 billion project. The new MGB building will be a 482-bed facility and is projected to open in two phases between 2027 and 2030.
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Boston Building Resources has been hired to study what kind of market can be developed to reuse unwanted materials in deconstruction and demolition projects. The findings from the $50,000 study will be included in a broader climate action plan due to be released soon.
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| | Proposed MA Income Tax Cut Could Raise Taxes | | |
A ballot initiative to cut the income tax could, paradoxically, end up raising taxes. The proposed question, which argues its case to be on the ballot before the Supreme Judicial Court on 5/1, would lower the state personal income tax rate from 5% to 4%. The law, as written, doesn't allow for the charitable deduction if the income tax rate is anything but 5%. The Department of Revenue estimates it could lead to around $480 million in lost charitable giving if taxpayers can't claim the deduction.
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The MA House of Representatives has passed a $63.4B 2027FY budget, signaling a tight fiscal environment despite continued revenue growth. Lawmakers emphasized ongoing cost pressures tied to the state’s affordability and housing challenges but approved the plan without new taxes while adding roughly $81M in targeted spending, including $26.5M for labor and economic development and additional funding for transportation, housing, and infrastructure-related areas.
The Senate is expected to release its version soon, with final negotiations likely extending into the start of the new fiscal year on July 1.
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Safety Week kicked off this week with major contractors supporting the "All in Together" message. Read more HERE
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For the first time since WWII, the U.S. debt crossed the key 100% threshold. As of March 2026, publicly held debt reached about $31.265T, while GDP was $31.216T over the prior year.
- Gas prices have now risen in all 50 states, with the national average at $4.46/gallon.
- Last week, Mayor Wu publicly renewed her push for a real estate transfer fee, which would impose a 2% tax on home sales over $2M.
- Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling has assumed the interim role of Labor Secretary, following Lori Chavez-DeRemer resignation after months of misconduct allegations.
- MA ranks fifth in the nation for road congestion, while 57% of all in-state trips are three miles or shorter.
- Fidelity is requiring all workers return to Boston offices 5 days a week as of September, 2026.
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