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A lifelong Long Islander, Congressman Andrew Garbarino is a strong ally to UA families in Washington.
In Congress, he consistently backs the UA’s gold-standard registered apprenticeship programs and fights for project labor agreements.
He works to protect prevailing wage and secure our hard-earned benefits on the job.
Andrew Garbarino is a proud member of the Bipartisan Building Trades Caucus, and he backs up his words with action.
Congressman Garbarino was one of only 13 Republicans to work across the aisle and vote for the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – which included strong labor protections that created good-paying jobs for UA members.
That’s why the UA is backing Andrew Garbarino for Congress.
Congressman Andrew Garbarino is an original Republican cosponsor of H.R. 2851, the National Apprenticeship Act of 2023, which would strengthen our registered apprenticeship programs.
He joined 21 House Republicans to protect the clean-energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, protecting funding for good-paying UA jobs.
And Congressman Garbarino not only fights for federal project labor agreement legislation, but he works to get them in place back home on Long Island.
Thanks to his work at the federal level, the Forge River Watershed sewer project is putting UA members to work under a PLA.