Highly trained, productive and safe skilled craft construction professionals are in demand. Businesses need these workers to help facilitate hundreds of billions of dollars in capital construction investments. NABTU possesses decades of experience recruiting and training people for careers in the skilled trades – including women, communities of color and military veterans – at no cost to taxpayers. Indeed, NABTU, along with their contractor partners, are the leading providers of construction craft training in North America – operating over 1,900 privately funded, cutting-edge apprenticeship training centers across the United States and Canada (1,600 in the U.S. alone), via an investment of $2 billion per year. We do so knowing that it is our relationships with industry partners that will achieve and ensure economic momentum for our members across North America.

These partnerships with industry offer a model for labor relations across North America, where working people and business leaders can collaborate with their best interests at heart while recognizing that partnership will bring mutual growth for us all.