Some of the many member benefits SCGMA provides includes but is not limited to:

• Negotiations: We offer strength in labor negotiation experience, providing strategic planning and analysis experience in the collective bargaining process.
• Networking: We increase job opportunities, market share, and develop industry relationships with networking possibilities.
• Education/Training: We educate our members on industry topics at no cost or heavily discounted prices.
• Legislative Lobbying/Advocacy: We are actively aware of any bills or amendments that affect our members and our industry.
• Regulatory Compliance Guidance and Advocacy: We reduce the compliance burden for our member’s business with rule and regulation updates.
• Marketing: We provide marketing representation for smaller businesses that do not have a full-time marketing person or staff.
• Additional Association Membership: We automatically include our members to affiliate member associations, including the Painters & Allied Trades Labor Management Cooperation Initiative (LMCI).

SCGMA also provides services and resources that benefit contractors and the industry:

• Labor relations and general research assistance
• Access to the business-to-business referral database
• A platform for input in the Collective Bargaining Agreement
• A free 30-minute phone consultation with our legal counsel
• Marketing opportunities through the SCGMA website and end-user outreach
• Free labor posters and packets from the U.S. Department of Labor and Cal Chamber
• Updates on legislation and regulations that affect the industry and individual businesses
• Weekly e-newsletters with industry news, legislative updates, and other useful information
• Industry involvement and leadership opportunities as an SCGMA Board of Director or a member of an SCGMA sub-committee