By Lori Valigra, BDN Staff • August 28, 2019 10:22 am 
Updated: August 28, 2019 10:37 am

Most Maine construction firms still plan to add jobs in the next 12 months as they expand their businesses, despite having difficulty filling hourly and salaried jobs, a new survey finds.

But contracting companies have a low opinion of the available workforce, according to the study, with close to three quarters of them reporting that workers have only a poor to fair chance of passing a drug test.