Labor. Management. Community.
Building partnerships that last.
When organized labor and their contractor partners work together, community members benefit through high-paying jobs and quality construction. The CCT ensures that this collective partnership leads to collective benefits.
Who We Serve
Contractors. Developers. Policymakers.
Contractors
The CCT advocates for the partnership between union contractors and carpenters. We fight for the issues that affect your business, your workforce and your bottom line.
Developers
With access to more than 42,000 skilled union carpenters, you get a workforce that’s trained, accountable and ready to scale. CCT connects you with the contractors who deliver.
Policymakers
A stronger workforce means stronger communities. CCT partners with legislators, school boards and civic organizations to advance policies that create opportunity and protect workers.
Our Mission
Partnership Works
The Carpenter Contractor Trust was founded on the concept that partnership works. When union carpenters and signatory contractors work together in the field, we reach some of the greatest achievements in modern construction.
The CCT promotes this off the jobsite, ensuring the public is well informed on the benefits and opportunities provided by the union trades.
What Is the CCT
Not Just an Organization. A Competitive Advantage.
A Partnership Built to Win
When contractors and union carpenters stand together, projects get done right. CCT exists to protect and promote that partnership.
A Modern Union Workforce
Today’s union carpenter is trained, certified and credentialed across a variety of skilled trades. This is the future of the industry.
42,000 Carpenters Strong
Access the largest pool of trained union carpenters across the Eastern Atlantic States, ready to scale with your project.
Communities That Get Stronger
Union projects fund communities and invest in people; strengthening pathways to apprenticeship, creating careers and building the middle class.
Advocacy Moving the Needle
The CCT educates community leaders and stakeholders on how union jobs keep tax dollars in the community, leading to more money for essential infrastructure.
The Stories Behind the Work
We tell the real stories of the people and projects shaping our region. When you see the work, the case for union labor makes itself.
Our Mission
One Mission. Many Angles.
The CCT promotes a network of digital campaigns, each built to advance union construction across the region.
Find a Union Contractor
The definitive directory connecting developers and decision-makers with union-signatory contractors across the region.
EAS Data Centers
Mission-critical construction demands a mission-ready workforce. Connecting developers with skilled labor for complex builds.
EAS Carpenters
The CCT advocates for the partnership between union contractors and carpenters. We fight for the issues that affect your business, your workforce and your bottom line.
FAQs
Questions About the CCT? Start Here.
The Carpenter Contractor Trust (CCT) is a labor-management partnership between union carpenters and signatory contractors across the Eastern Atlantic States. We advocate for the industry, promote the value of union construction and tell the stories of the people and projects shaping our communities.
CCT Contractor Spotlight
Meet the Contractors Building Our Region
Portal Bridge with Skanska
Skanska crossed the halfway point on the massive Portal North Bridge project in Kearny, New Jersey — a generational piece of Northeast Corridor infrastructure. Cyndie Williams goes on-site to see how Skanska and its union carpenters are delivering one of the most consequential rail projects in the region.
PA Roofing Systems
PA Roofing Systems has installed more than 100 million square feet of roofing with 100% union labor since 1978. Cyndie Williams sits down with President and Owner Rich Funovits to talk about the company’s enduring commitment to the men and women of the Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters.
Our Mission
The Labor Lounge
Real conversations from the world of organized labor. Cohosted by Anthony Abrantes and Cyndie Williams, the show introduces listeners to union leaders, industry partners and community changemakers shaping the future of the trades.
New episodes released monthly.
Stay Connected
Today’s union carpenter is trained, certified and credentialed across a variety of skilled trades. This is the future of the industry.
