About the Columbus/Central Ohio
Building and Construction Trades Council
The Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council was established on June 1, 1961. For more than half a century, it has provided skilled union craftsmanship to the greater Columbus area.
Today, the C/COBCTC represents more than 18,000
Workers From 22 Affiliated Local Unions.
Union Workers
Affiliated Local Unions
The organization promotes the region’s construction trades, protects the interests of the union construction industry and advocates for a healthy labor-management relationship between employers and employees in the union construction industry.
The Council believes in providing its members with strong leadership, negotiating skills and a powerful political voice that is taken to the bargaining table to provide the construction industry with solid representation and labor agreements to preserve measures such as Prevailing Wage, Community Benefit Agreements, Project Labor Agreements and other issues.
Affiliated with the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council, the C/COBCTC is one the largest regional building trades councils in the Buckeye State.
Through a strong partnership with Franklin County, the C/COBCTC is proud to support and promote the Building Futures Program. This Apprenticeship Readiness Program offers members of underserved communities an opportunity to remove career-blocking barriers, gain entry into a building trades Registered Apprenticeship Program and put themselves on a pathway to the middle class.
At the 2023 North America’s Building Trades Unions’ Legislative Conference, the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council was recognized for its work in creating the Building Futures Program.
The Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council is headed by Executive Secretary-Treasurer Dorsey Hager and seven Executive Board members.
Our jurisdiction includes the following counties:
Delaware
Fairfield
Fayette
Franklin
Licking
Madison
Marion
Pickaway
Union
Columbus Area Construction Projects
Columbus Area Construction Projects
$37 Million Project
Franklin County Forensic Science Center Project
Affiliated members of the Columbus/Central Ohio Building Trades and Construction Council built the new state-of-the-art Franklin County Correctional Facility on time under a Community Benefits Agreement.
$900 Million Project / 750 Jobs Created
AMGEN Manufacturing Facility
Amgen Columbus: The quickest build in company history, completed by C/COBCTC union affiliates with 100 percent skilled labor.
$12 Million Project
Columbus Fire Station No. 35
Columbus Fire Station No. 35: The first city project built under a Community Benefits Agreement with 100 percent union labor.
$220 Million Project / Hundreds of Jobs Created
Downtown Columbus Hilton Hotel Expansion
Hilton Columbus Expansion: A $220 million union-built project creating Ohio’s largest hotel with 1,000 rooms and a 28-story tower.
$314 Million Project / Roughly 500 Job Created
Lower.com Field Project
Tradesmen and tradeswomen of Central Ohio completed work on the new Columbus Crew soccer stadium, Lower.com Field, just in time for the team to host their first match.
$25 Million Project / Around 80 Jobs Created
Linden Park Community Center
Affiliated members of the Columbus/Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council completed work on the new Linden Park Community Center.
$175 Million Project / About 200 Jobs Created
Franklin Co. Correctional Facility Project
Affiliated members of the Columbus/Central Ohio Building Trades and Construction Council built the new state-of-the-art Franklin County Correctional Facility on time under a contract similar to a Project Labor Agreement.