“I’ve always enjoyed reading the ‘My IBEW Story’ feature, and it inspired me to share about a special bond of Brotherhood that began decades ago. That’s when 45 young men, myself included, were indent...

HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania — Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plant fold into a cloud of dust,...

West Virginia has some of the least union-friendly policies in North America. In recent years, though, the state’s IBEW locals have had so much success landing projects that put members to work that i...

Local 569 members are playing an important role in the renovations at San Diego International Airport — where most delegates and guests attending this month’s International Convention will be flying i...

From the desert to the mountains to the Pacific Ocean, the 15,500 members of Diamond Bar Local 47 are flung far and wide in Southern California and a sliver of western Nevada.

Throughout its history, San Diego Local 569 has persevered and thrived through the changing political and cultural dynamics of a city that was once anti-labor to one that fights for — and wins — pro-w...

Proudly displayed in the offices of San Diego Local 465 is a photograph from 1915 featuring a horse-drawn float, the local’s entry in a parade celebrating the city’s hosting of the Panama-California E...

San Diego is a union town. But it didn’t used to be. For decades, San Diego consistently elected anti-union politicians. In 2012, it became the largest city in the country to ban project labor agreeme...

Support for labor unions is at its modern-day peak in the U.S., both in approval and in Americans' desire for unions to gain influence.

This Labor Day, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is honoring the workers who power the energy of every day. Line workers from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) speak in their own words about their careers, describing a job defined by grit, long hours, and a deep sense of purpose.

The cost of moratoriums is greater than most realize.

It was the winter of 1900 when Brother Harry D. Parsons arrived in San Diego looking to organize. An inside wireman from Texas, Parsons had wound his way from Local 9 in Chicago to Local 2 in St. Loui...

The Electrical Training Alliance of Jacksonville program is different from a traditional college or even trade school path. Apprentices work full time for one of the program’s electrical contractors w...

Jason Comitz joined IBEW Local 163 at 19 and is now wiring data centers across northeastern Pennsylvania.

The small town of Gillam in northeastern Manitoba is home to the longest-running firefighter rodeo in North America, and it features almost all IBEW members.

Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequality

Electricians like data centers. Here’s why you should, too.

Google.org, the charitable arm of Google, announced June 11 that it is providing $50 million to support skilled construction training programs, including those offered by the IBEW and its partners. Th...

Leaders from every part of the IBEW gathered in Atlanta recently to renew their commitment to organizing every worker in the electrical industry during the annual Membership Development conference.

“Before joining the IBEW, I spent three years working as a nonunion electrician while pursuing a pre-med degree in college. Growing up, I developed strong mechanical skills by helping my father, a NAS...

Jason Bellamy-Fults stood in a Tallahassee hearing room packed with union members in March and pleaded with Florida senators to block the latest legislative attack on the organizing rights of public w...

Nuclear power has been getting a second look as a clean and reliable energy source, with mothballed plants coming back online. In New Jersey, it’s also taking on a new role that will move production o...

West Virginia has some of the least union-friendly policies in North America. In recent years, though, the state’s IBEW locals have had so much success landing projects that put members to work that i...

Anchorage, Alaska, Local 1547 Business Manager Doug Tansy knows most of his members, and most Alaskans, have felt the impact of the state’s nation-high suicide rate.

The work done by Halifax, Nova Scotia, Local 1131 members literally has national security implications. That’s why their leadership argued for years that it should be certified with the highest design...

One of Detroit’s latest revitalization projects is transforming vacant and blighted areas of land into solar arrays, and Local 58 members are helping to make that happen.

A recent study of Sacramento County public works projects found that those led by unionized contractors were more cost- and time-efficient.

Gen Z is increasingly turning to trade schools in hopes of future-proofing their careers against A.I. But getting their parents and peers on board can be a challenge.

Artificial intelligence has caused ripple effects in workforces across numerous industries, but for electricians there have been some benefits.

The only shop in the CSX railroad system where locomotives are being converted to use hydrogen fuel instead of diesel is in Huntington, W. Va., and highly trained IBEW electricians are playing a cruci...