Washington, D.C. – August 29, 2023 – North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey issued the following statement:

“Today’s NPRM is a significant step forward. The labor standards included in the Inflation Reduction Act are this country’s greatest insurance towards a just energy transition for working families. The Congressional intent of IRA is to ensure that companies meet core labor standards using registered apprentices and paying prevailing wages if they want a full tax credit to help fund their clean energy projects. The proposed rule from the Biden administration moves us closer to that goal and continues President Biden’s delivery of generational wins for American working families.”

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Media Contact: Betsy Barrett, (202) 756-4623 | 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 that collectively represent over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and signatory contractor partners invest almost $2 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 productive skilled craft workers found 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