The New Jersey State Building and Construction Trades Council coordinates activity and provides resources to 15 affiliated trades unions in the construction industry . It represents 13 Local Building Trades Councils, more than 100 local unions and over 150,000 rank and file members.

Created in 1903, the NJ B&CTC has helped its 15 affiliated building trades unions to make job sites safer, deliver apprenticeship and journey-level training, organize new workers, support legislation that affects working families, and assist in securing improved wages, hours and working conditions through collective bargaining and project labor agreements.


Monsignor John J. Gilchrist Invocation at the North America's Building Trades Unions 2015 Annual Convention


New Jersey Building & Construction Trades Council presents “A Century of Progress,” a look into 100 years of union construction in New Jersey.

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