Washington, D.C. – September 3, 2024 – On Friday, September 27, through Sunday, September 29, more than 5,000 tradeswomen, along with top labor, government, and industry leaders from across North America, will be in New Orleans for the 14th annual Tradeswomen Build Nations Conference.

Tradeswomen Build Nations (TWBN), hosted by North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), is the largest annual building trades conference in the world, bringing together tradeswomen from the United States and Canada. Our three-day conference and the entire TWBN movement cultivate leadership, mentorship, activism, and sisterhood to address vital issues facing tradeswomen worldwide.

This year’s conference theme is “Let the good jobs roll.”  The event will include plenary sessions, workshops, panels, a banner parade, and networking opportunities geared towards empowering tradeswomen and developing and honing skills and knowledge to help them succeed and be fulfilled in their careers. This year’s goal is to uplift women in our industry, promote women’s recruitment and retention, increase health and safety education and awareness, and expand tradeswomen’s engagement—on the job and in our unions. The conference will underscore the significance of the Infrastructure Generation – this once-in-a-generation workforce being created from the unprecedented federal policy wins delivered for working families in the construction industry – and emphasize the importance of the November election.

TWBN conference plenaries and the banner parade are open to credentialed press only. Please RSVP to comms@nabtu.org and kaylie@nabtu.org to request a credential prior to the event.

What: NABTU’s 14th Annual Tradeswomen Build Nations Conference – ‘Let the good jobs roll’

Who: Over 5,000 unionized tradeswomen from across North America, top U.S. government officials, labor leaders, advocates, and industry executives.

When and Where: Friday, September 27, 2024 – Sunday, September 29, 2024

• Friday, September 27: Opening Plenary and Reception, 5 – 8 pm CT
  Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Two Poydras St, New Orleans, LA 70130
• Saturday, September 28: Plenary Session and Banner Parade, 8 am – 12:30 pm CT
  New Orleans Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130
• Sunday, September 29: Plenary Session, 8 – 10:30 am CT
  New Orleans Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130

Press contacts:

Betsy Barrett and Kaylie Rowland, NABTU (US) | comms@nabtu.org | (703) 328-1434

Jennifer White, CBTU (Canada) | jwhite@buildingtrades.ca | (613) 301-4795

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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.