Washington, D.C. – October 1, 2024 – Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey issued the following statement:

“North America’s Building Trades Unions stands firmly with President Biden in his commitment to upholding collective bargaining rights, as demonstrated in his recent statement regarding the negotiations between the USMX and the International Longshoremen’s Association. Collective bargaining is the cornerstone of fair labor practices, ensuring workers have a voice at the table. President Biden’s leadership continues to reflect a strong respect for workers’ rights, and NABTU fully supports his efforts to protect America’s working families.”

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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 over $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 most 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.