Alaska Works develops partnerships with employers, local municipalities, housing authorities, village councils, school boards, and others to increase local hire and provide jobs and career opportunities for rural Alaska residents.

Alaska Works is a statewide non-profit corporation representing all of Alaska's building and construction trade unions and their federally registered apprenticeship and training programs.

Founded in 1996, the Alaska Works Partnership program offers training opportunities that can lead to careers with good wages and benefits for Alaska residents. While increasing local hire, Alaska Works Partnership promotes economic development and lessens dependence on public assistance.

Alaska Works Partnership represents many of Alaska's building and construction trade unions and their federally registered apprenticeship programs. These privately financed institutions and their affiliated employers have provided employment and training opportunities for thousands of apprentices and construction workers in Alaska for over fifty years.

The Alaska Works Partnership is an affiliate of American Community Partnerships, a Section 501 (C)(3) nonprofit organization.

The organization works to build mutually beneficial partnerships between public and private sector ownership entities, contractors, Native organizations, unions, joint apprenticeship and training committees and local, state, and federal governmental agencies