Sean McGarvey

Sean McGarvey is the president of North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU), a labor organization comprising fourteen national and international unions representing approximately three million construction workers in the United States and Canada. He began his building trades career in 1981 as a member of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades in Philadelphia and was unanimously elected NABTU president in 2012 after serving as its Secretary-Treasurer since 2005. He is best known for leading workforce development initiatives, including Apprenticeship Readiness Programs and Helmets to Hardhats, and for his bipartisan approach to labor policy and infrastructure investment.