Building Trades Employers’ Association (BTEA) Boston has rebranded as BTEA Northeast in a move that expands the more than century-old organization to serve all six New England states, Pennsylvania and portions of upstate New York.
ENR New England spoke to BTEA executive director Thomas J. Gunning about the move. He began his career as a union laborer for Turner Construction and George Macomber Construction. Gunning applied decades of hands-on experience and unique labor management perspective to his position when he joined BTEA Boston in 1985 as director of industry and government affairs. He assumed the position of executive director in 1992.