What Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET) does

LECET is a labor-management cooperation trust fund established in 1988 and headquartered in Washington, DC. It is one of three entities that comprise LIUNA's Tri-Funds alongside LIUNA Training and the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA). LECET's mandate is to identify new and emerging construction markets and position LIUNA (Laborers' International Union of North America) and its signatory contractors to win project work, thereby expanding union market share.

The organization's core product is the Market Expansion Program (MEP), a proprietary construction project tracking platform that surfaces project leads to LIUNA signatory contractors. MEP is available as an online web platform and as a mobile application (MEP-Go) for iOS and Android. To enrich its research output, LECET integrates third-party market intelligence from Industrial Info Resources (IIR) and financial/corporate data from DNBi. The platform is governed by a board of Labor and Management Trustees and delivered through a network of 38 affiliates operating at national, regional, district council, and local union levels across the United States and Canada.

LECET operates as a non-profit trust rather than a commercial vendor. Revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed, but the organization is sustained through contributions tied to collective bargaining agreements between LIUNA and its signatory contractors. Its customer base is structurally limited to LIUNA, its affiliated membership, and signatory contractors, making it functionally an internal service provider for the union's competitive positioning effort rather than a market-facing enterprise software company.

Name

Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET)

Legal name

Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET)

Website

https://lecet.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Labor-management cooperation trust fund and one of LIUNA's Tri-Funds that develops marketing programs and a proprietary construction project tracking platform for LIUNA and its signatory contractors across North America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington, DC

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

LECET delivers the Market Expansion Program (MEP), a proprietary custom project tracking system that searches for and tracks construction projects to serve as a project lead service for LIUNA signatory contractors. MEP is available as an online web program and as a mobile application on iOS and Android platforms, enabling contractors to access project leads and tracking capabilities in the field. LECET also utilizes partner data from Industrial Info Resources (IIR) and DNBi to provide actionable market intelligence for industrial, maintenance, energy, and financial sectors.

Product overview

LECET offers a single core product called the Market Expansion Program (MEP), a proprietary custom project tracking program for construction projects. MEP is available as both an online web program and a mobile application (MEP-Go) for iOS and Android devices, providing LIUNA and signatory contractors with project lead services and construction tracking capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MEP (Market Expansion Program): LECET's proprietary custom project tracking program designed to search for and track construction projects for Laborers. MEP serves as a unique project lead service for LIUNA Signatory Contractors. Available as an online program and a mobile app in iOS and Android formats.

Products and services

• Market Expansion Program (MEP) LECET's proprietary custom project tracking program designed to search for and track construction projects for Laborers. MEP serves as a unique project lead service for LIUNA Signatory Contractors, providing competitive market intelligence and project tracking capabilities through a web platform.
• MEP-Go Mobile App Mobile application version of the Market Expansion Program (MEP) that allows LIUNA Signatory Contractors to access construction project leads and tracking while out in the field. Available for download on iOS and Android platforms via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Industrial Info Resources (IIR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIIR provides comprehensive market intelligence to the industrial, maintenance and energy industries, which LECET utilizes to provide actionable research to expand market opportunities for LIUNA and signatory contractors.
• DNBicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDNBi provides thorough financial and historical information on companies, which LECET utilizes to provide actionable research to expand market opportunities for LIUNA and signatory contractors.
• LIUNA (Laborers' International Union of North America)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLECET brings LIUNA and signatory contractors together to address issues of importance to both. LECET is one of three funds that make up LIUNA's Tri-Funds, working in coordination with LIUNA Training and the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA).
• LIUNA TrainingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of LIUNA's Tri-Funds structure. LIUNA Training develops training programs while LECET develops marketing programs, together providing competitive edge to LIUNA and signatory contractors.
• Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of LIUNA's Tri-Funds structure. LHSFNA develops health and safety programs while LECET develops marketing programs, together providing competitive edge to LIUNA and signatory contractors.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• LIUNA Training and Education Fund: Sister organization within LIUNA's Tri-Funds structure, delivering apprenticeship and skills training to LIUNA members. Directly comparable as a labor-management cooperation trust funded through the same mechanism and serving the same LIUNA signatory contractor base.
• United Brotherhood of Carpenters: Major North American construction trade union operating its own training, marketing, and market expansion programs for carpenters and related trades. Comparable as a competing craft union with affiliated cooperation programs that target similar signatory contractor relationships.
• International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE): Major North American construction trade union with its own training, market expansion, and labor-management cooperation programs for heavy equipment operators. Comparable as a craft union with a similar governance structure competing for the same union construction market share.
• Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA): Third Tri-Funds organization alongside LECET, focused on occupational health and safety programs for laborers. Highly comparable as a labor-management cooperation trust operating with the same governance model, funding mechanism, and target constituency.

Broad incumbents

• Dodge Construction Network: Established construction market intelligence provider offering project leads, market analytics, and forecasting across commercial, industrial, and infrastructure segments. Comparable in project tracking and market intelligence scope, though at significantly larger commercial scale than LECET.
• Procore Technologies: Major construction project management software platform serving owners, general contractors, and subcontractors across commercial, residential, and infrastructure. Comparable as a construction technology platform with project tracking capabilities, but at substantially broader scope and scale than MEP.
• ConstructConnect: Commercial construction project lead and preconstruction intelligence platform serving the full construction market. Comparable as a provider of project tracking and bid intelligence, though with much broader commercial scope than MEP's union-specific focus.

Emerging players

• BuildingConnected (Autodesk): Preconstruction bid management platform (acquired by Autodesk) connecting general contractors with subcontractors for project bidding. Comparable as a project lead and bidding intelligence tool, but with a broader, generalist market focus and stronger technology stack.

Others

• National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER): Non-profit construction education and credentialing organization serving the broader industry. Comparable as an adjacent construction industry non-profit with a similar mission of workforce development, though without LECET's project lead and market expansion focus.
• Industrial Info Resources (IIR): Market intelligence provider for industrial, energy, and maintenance sectors. Directly comparable as a data supplier that powers LECET's underlying market intelligence and represents the type of broader commercial alternative LECET leverages and competes alongside.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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