Sean McGarvey
The head of NABTU trades who supported Meta's workforce academy.
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Sean McGarvey is an American labor union leader who began his career as a glazier in 1981 after moving to Philadelphia at the age of two. He joined the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, progressing from recording secretary to business agent. In 2005, McGarvey was elected secretary-treasurer of North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and became its president in 2012. In his leadership roles, he has prioritized increasing membership diversity and views the organization as a provider of skilled labor to businesses. McGarvey has also attended the Harvard Trade Union Program and holds a vice-president position within the AFL-CIO, in addition to serving as secretary-treasurer of Ullico. He is also the leader of NABTU, which is a strategic partner in Meta's America's Workforce Academy, a program aimed at upskilling workers for infrastructure projects.
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Sean McGarvey is an American labor union leader. McGarvey moved with his family to Philadelphia when he was two years old. In 1981, he completed high school and became a glazier. He joined the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, becoming recording secretary of his local union in 1985, and then business agent in 1994. In 2005, McGarvey was elected as secretary-treasurer of North America's Building Trades Unions, and in 2012, he won election as its president. As leader of the federation, he focused on increasing the diversity of its membership, and seeing the organization as selling its members' skills to business owners. He attended the Harvard Trade Union Program, and serves as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. He is also secretary-treasurer of Ullico.
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- Sean McGarvey - Wikipedia
December 2, 2024 - Sean McGarvey is an American labor union leader. McGarvey moved with his family to Philadelphia when he was two years old. In 1981, he completed high school and became a glazier. He joined the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, becoming recording secretary of his local union in 1985, and then business agent in 1994. In 2005, McGarvey was elected as secretary-treasurer of North America's Building
- Sean McGarvey - InfluenceWatch - InfluenceWatch
January 16, 2023 - Sean McGarvey is an American labor union officer who currently works as president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO.
- Sean McGarvey - National Academy of Construction
Sean McGarvey is president of the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU). He holds a bachelor’s degree from the National Labor College and is a graduate of the Harvard University Trade Union Program. He represents 14 international unions throughout the U.S.
- Sean McGarvey - National Conservatism Conference, 2021
December 7, 2021 - Sean McGarvey is the president of the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) and is a glazier by trade. Prior to joining NABTU, he
- Sean McGarvey - Ullico
Sean McGarvey serves as Secretary-Treasurer on Ullico Inc.’s Board of Directors. He started his building trades career with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) in 1981 in Philadelphia. He subsequently worked his way up through various IUPAT leadership positions. In 2005, Sean was elected Secretary-Treasurer of NABTU, and in 2012, he was unanimously elected to NABTU’s office of president. Sean is a respected union construction thought leader among labor, government, corporate, and private sectors. He has dedicated his life to improving the economic security and career opportunities of current and future construction workers and their families, and his fervent commitment has strengthened NABTU’s impact and value to owners, contractors and whole communities. [...] A graduate and proponent of construction registered apprenticeship, Sean has led the development and expansion of Apprenticeship Readiness Programs to recruit more communities of color, women, veterans, indigenous people and the justice-involved into the building trades. Alongside NABTU’s governing board of presidents, he has established Capital Strategies, an expansive program to advance high-road standards in procurement practices and grow partnerships with top Wall Street and Bay Street investment firms supporting job-creating enterprises in commercial, industrial, and residential construction and public-private infrastructure. Throughout his tenure, Sean’s steady bipartisan approach to policy and politics has navigated the building trades through some of the toughest fights to protect [...] Ullico Inc. All Professionals # Sean McGarvey Secretary-Treasurer, Ullico Inc.; President, North America’s Building Trades Unions ### Biography
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