By Mukesh 
![The umbrella North America’s Building Trades Unions said it hit a record number of members and apprentices in 2025 [File]](https://dailygovtupdates.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/1x1_spacer.png "The umbrella North America’s Building Trades Unions said it hit a record number of members and apprentices in 2025 [File]")
Building trades unions — long fashioned as the voice of the American worker — are now intertwined with the richest companies in the world as they create America’s artificial intelligence economy.
Unionised workers are employed on a huge number of massive data centre projects and scrambling to recruit new apprentices to feed the explosive demand.