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Who is the Carpenter Contractor Trust?

Our MIssion

The Carpenter Contractor Trust promotes and markets the talent, productivity, assets and matchless expertise of union carpenters and contractors to the construction community and the public throughout the eastern region of the United States.

Who We Are

The Carpenter Contractor Trust (CCT) is a labor-management trust located in Edison, New Jersey. We promote the vast resources of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) thousands of members and participating contractor regional partners.

OUR COMMITMENT

THE FOUR PILLARS OF OUR ORGANIZATION

Skillset

During the past 100 years, union strategy has ensured that our carpenters and contractors take pride in staying up-to-date on the latest technologies, procedures and applications. Union carpenters and contractors have invested more than $300 million to establish the most successful educational program in the country: apprenticeship training programs.

Flexibilty

Our growing geographic diversity gives developers and builders access to a wider range of skills and talents, so they aren't limited to a smaller, local pool of workers. Our new business model is flexible. Project costs with union carpenters and contractors are more stable and predictable due to greater collaboration and pre-established pricing.

Equity

When we choose to participate in the funding of a project by providing equity financing, we are making a bold and substantive statement: We believe in this project and will guarantee that our workers are always committed.

Productivity

Union carpenters and contractors provide the best possible workforce to ensure that each project is successful. Worker efficiency and productivity are the keys to keeping a project on schedule and within budget. Productivity enhances a contractor's profitability and helps ensure that he or she is focusing on quality and cost containment.

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What has been said about Union Labor?

"We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization."

Peter J. McGuire

Founder of Labor Day and The Carpenters Union

"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

Steve Jobs

Apple co-founder

"Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor."

John F. Kennedy

35th President of the United States

"The labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Icon

"To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work."

Samuel Gompers

Founder the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

"Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

40th President of the United States

"The story of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land.... America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions, can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it."

Hubert Humphrey

38th Vice President of the United States

"To remember the loneliness, the fear and the insecurity of men who once had to walk alone in huge factories, beside huge machines -- to realize that labor unions have meant new dignity and pride to millions of our countrymen -- human companionship on the job, and music in the home -- to be able to see what larger pay checks mean, not to a man as an employee, but as a husband and as a father -- to know these things is to understand what American labor means."

Adlai Stevenson

23rd Vice President of the United States

"Where Free Unions and Collective Bargaining are Forbidden, Freedom is Lost"

Ronald Reagan

40th President of the United States

"The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good."

Pope Paul VI

Papal office, 21 June 1963 â€“ 6 August 1978â€“ 6 August 1978

"Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers."

Rush Limbaugh

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"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

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Raritan Plaza II
91 Fieldcrest Ave., 1st Floor
Edison, NJ 08837
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