,The West Virginia State Building and Construction Trades Council is an umbrella group comprised of local construction unions and their members who work in West Virginia. The Council is affiliated with the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO.

Their objectives include:

  1. To aid and assist all affiliated local unions in the building and construction trades industry;
  2. To assist and cooperate with all bona fide labor organizations in order that we may present a solid phalanx against injustice;
  3. To promote and advance apprenticeship training and to cooperate with Federal and State agenices promoting the interests of apprenticeship training;
  4. To promote the development of safety and health programs;
  5. To aid and assist all affiliated local unions in securing improved wages and working conditions through the process of collective bargaining;
  6. To promote Labor/Management relationships and foster the development of a more harmonious feeling between employers and employees;
  7. To aid and assist affiliated local unions in organizing non-union workers in all branches of their jurisdiction and to provide services to those who are organized; to assist educational advancement and training;
  8. To engage in cultural, civic, political legislative, fraternal, educational, charitable, welfare, social and other activities which further the interest of building and construction trades unions and their members.

Those construction trades crafts affiliated with the West Virginia State Building & Construction Trades Council include: Boilermakers, Carpenters, Millwrights, Cement Masons & Plasterers, Insulators, Electricians, Ironworkers, Laborers, Operating Engineers, Painters, Plumbers/Pipefitters/Sprinkler Fitters, Roofers, Sheet Metal Workers, Bricklayers and Teamsters.

Their Executive Board is comprised of individuals representing each craft within the building trades, usually a Business Agent of one the Locals, and also includes one representative from each of Their five affiliated Local Building Trades Councils.

The WV Affiliated Construction Trades (ACT) Foundation is the research, advertising and public relations arm of the West Virginia State Building Trades. Their objectives are:

  1.  To aid and assist all affiliated local unions within the construction industry in all lawful activities as may from time to time be appropriate;
  2. To aid in marketing the construction trades;
  3. To aid in providing construction contract bid information to interested parties when it is in the best interests of ACT and the Council to do so;
  4. To provide legal services to aid in the achievement of the goals of ACT; and,
  5. Political action functions.

Address: 600 Leon Sullivan Way, Charleston WV 25301

Secretary Treasurer: Dave Efaw

Website: www.actwv.org

Phone: 304.346.1367

Fax:304.346.3862