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Congress Passes PRO Act
The Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act has passed its first hurdle as the Democratic-led House of Representatives voted to pass the bill.
Podcast: Trump Exit - Will Liberals Leave if he is Re-Elected?
Christopher Dale calls in to talk about whether liberals will leave the country if Trump is re-elected. Trump is also at it again, this time hiring union-busters to oversee the agency that is in...
IBEW Endorses Joe Biden
With results slowly trickling in, it looks like former Vice President Joe Biden will finish in fourth place in the Iowa Caucus. “I’m not going to sugarcoat it. We took a gut punch in Iowa...
IBEW Teams with OSHA to Keep Workers Safe
This post was written by the IBEW Media Department. Across the U.S., an ongoing shortage of inspectors at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is putting workers’ lives at risk...
Union Construction Jobs Safer than Non-Union
This post was written by the IBEW Media Center. It may not be news to those in the business, but new numbers back up what IBEW and other union construction members already know: there’s...
National Save Apprenticeships' Week
This post was written by the IBEW Media Department. Every November the Department of Labor holds National Apprenticeship Week to raise the profile of certified training programs that provide a...
Right to Work Repeal at Stake In Virginia
This post was written by the IBEW Media Department. With every vote counted in 2017, pro-worker lawmakers in Virginia were one botched ballot away from shared control of the House of Delegates.
DirecTV IBEW Local Makes Big Gains
This post was written by the IBEW Media Department. About 3,000 employees at DirecTV facilities across 13 states voted for IBEW representation and approved contracts in 2016, a major organizing...
Senate Energy Bill Supports Union Jobs
This post was written by the IBEW. An IBEW-backed bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would ensure that the country’s growing number of clean energy construction jobs will be filled by...
Trump's Watered-Down Apprenticeship Program
This post was written by the IBEW. The IBEW urgently needs your help to protect our training programs from a pending federal rule that would let businesses run shoddy apprenticeships with minimal...