Mission

The New Mexico Building Construction & Trades Council (NMBCTC) is an alliance of craft unions that are the best choice for highly skilled and highly productive construction labor. That’s because the NMBCTC and its affiliated member unions demonstrates a concerted commitment to world class skills development and training; coupled with a 21st century labor/management model…

Why Union?

The Santa Fe New Mexican – The coming expansion project at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center might bring something we haven’t seen in Santa Fe in a long time — construction cranes. The absence of large-scale projects have taken its toll on New Mexico construction workers and both Santa Fe and Las Cruces are…

NM loses homegrown solar manufacturer

Albuquerque Journal – Direct Power & Water Corp. — one of New Mexico’s original, homegrown solar manufacturing companies — is consolidating its factory production in North Carolina where DPW’s parent firm, Preformed Line Products Co., has a massive factory. DPW makes racks and other components for solar systems at a three-building, 33,000-square-foot complex that it leases…