AI Data-Center Construction Is Sending Tradesmen Across the Country. A Traveling Pipefitter Needs to Know Where His Pension Money Lands.

Quick Read BlackRock's AI Infrastructure Partnership with North America's Building Trades Unions will deploy over 3 million skilled tradespeople across data center and infrastructure projects nationwide. Pension contributions for traveling union workers can stay with the jobsite fund or return home via 'money-follows-the-man' reciprocity, but paperwork gaps can cost workers retirement money. Social Security corrections are generally blocked after 3 years, so traveling tradespeople must regularly verify their earnings record matches their W-2s from every state worked.