DO YOU NEED HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS Register your employees for the WCCA Heavy Equipment Operators Apprenticeship program. Registration begins October 12, 2021 thru December 1, 2021 Classes will start January 2022. This Colorado Department of Labor approved apprentice program will cover classroom and on the job training. Classroom education can be in person or virtual.  All on the job training done on [...]

WCCA has Traffic Control Supervisor(TCS) Classes!!!! A Class for Traffic Control Supervisor(TCS) has been scheduled for Dec. 16 & 17.  Classes subject to Availability and approved through the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).  Rates for WCCA members, Non-Members and Municipalities are available.  Classes scheduled: TCS Class - 2 Day Dec. 16 & 17, 2021 8AM WCCA Training Room 2470 Patterson Rd #14 [...]

The Colorado Contractors Association (CCA) and the Western Colorado Contractors Association (WCCA)  invite construction related businesses and  project owners to participate in our annual discussions of upcoming infrastructure projects for Western Colorado. Many of you have attended one of our previous annual briefings, but for those who haven’t joined us before, the purpose of these meetings are to bring infrastructure owners together [...]

What is new with the Mesa County Building Department and the Grand Junction Fire Department? Here is your chance to learn of the new updates in contractor's tools in Mesa County! The Mesa County Building & Planning Department  and the GJ Fire Department (tentative) are building better relations with the area construction related businesses! Join the Home Builders Association of NW Colorado [...]

Results of 2021 WCCA Trap Shoot - GJ It was a GREAT Day a the WCCA Trap Shoot!! There was a total of 19 teams that participated and  $1000.00 was raised for the 4H Shooting Sports. Following the 2021 WCCA Trap Shoot, members enjoyed the hugely successful "After Party" held at the Ale House in Grand Junction.  WCCA gave away a pheasant [...]

Getting Colorado Back To Work In June of 2021, eight of the top Construction Associations in Colorado, including the Western Colorado Contractors Association, urged the Colorado Governor to have Colorado be one of several states  to opt out of federal unemployment benefit programs provided by the federal government that were set to expire on September 6.   The construction industry is currently short [...]

THANK YOU TO ALL WCCA MEMBERS WHO JOINED US AT THE WCCA NIGHT @ THE GJ ROCKIES! It was a little warm, but fun was had!

Article: Increasing Need for Industry Employees and Qualified Workers Lack of shop classes and an aging population is contributing to a downfall of qualified workers in the construction industry.  New home construction and improvement are surging, thanks to the lack of inventory in a red-hot housing market and more people working from home. In an industry already short on workers before the pandemic, construction businesses [...]

With increased reports of COVID breakout in Western Slope communities,  Western Colorado Contractors Association, CDOT, Mesa County Health Department, CDHPE and Colorado 811 are providing an opportunity for employees to choose to get their COVID 19 Vaccination.  Employees may get their  Vaccine by choice and help slow the spread of COVID 19 amongst workplaces.  Employers are encouraged to grant employees time on [...]