The skilled handsthat build Nashville& Middle Tennessee

Who we are

One council. Fourteen trades. Every jobsite in Middle Tennessee.

The Nashville Building & Construction Trades Council is the united voice of the craft unions that build this region — from the interstate interchanges and hospital towers to the data centers, stadiums, and power plants that keep it running.

Each of our affiliates is a self-governing local union with its own hall, its own contracts, and its own apprenticeship program. The Council is where they come together: to coordinate manpower across trades, to protect standards on public and private work, to settle jurisdiction without shutting a job down, and to advocate for workforce development and workers’ rights.

For a contractor or owner, that means one phone call reaches every trade on the project. For a worker, it means a career with a wage you can raise a family on, health care that covers your kids, and a pension you can actually retire on.

“An hour of union craft labor is the best value in construction — because the worker walking onto your job has already spent years learning to do it right the first time.” Nashville Building & Construction Trades Council

• Trained, not just hired. U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeships incorporate classroom and on-the-job training to ensure we train to a higher standard.
• Safety first, always. OSHA-certified crews, journey-level mentoring, and a lower incident rate than the open-shop average.
• Local hiring. Wages earned in Middle Tennessee by Middle Tennesseans go back into the local economy.