Apprenticeship, Training, and Organizing

The unions affiliated with the Building an Construction Trades Department provide the highest quality apprentice and journeyworker training anywhere in the world. The apprenticeship and training programs of the building trades unions are administered by local joint apprenticeship and training committees (JATCs), made up of representatives from the local union and from industry employers. These local training trust funds spend over $500,000 million annually on training and operate over 2,000 training centers across North America. More than 180,000 apprentices and tens of thousands of journey-level workers receive quality training each year at these state-of-the-art facilities.