WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 17, 2026 – Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey released the following statement:

“We have waited a long time to see the Resolution Copper Mine project move forward, and today marks a major milestone. The completion of the land exchange is a significant step toward making Resolution Copper a reality, one that will deliver good-paying jobs for the local community and provide our country with the minerals it needs to meet rapidly rising demand.

“This project will be built under a project labor agreement, ensuring that the most highly skilled workers in America are the ones driving it forward. It’s a model for how collaboration between developers and labor can create a middle-class sustaining workforce, support communities, and help our nation compete. When we work together, we can tackle big challenges, build responsibly, and deliver long term economic benefits for the region and the country.”

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Media Contact: Betsy Barrett, (202) 997-3266 | bbarrett@nabtu.org

About NABTU: North America’s Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry collectively representing over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and signatory contractor partners invest over $2.5 billion in private-sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained, and most productive, skilled craft workers anywhere in the world. NABTU is dedicated to creating economic security and employment opportunities for its construction workers by safeguarding wage and benefits standards, promoting responsible private capital investments, investing in renowned apprenticeship and training, and creating more construction career pathways to the middle class for women, communities of color, Indigenous people, veterans, and the justice-involved. For more information, please visit nabtu.org.