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America's Infrastructure Crisis Creates Opportunity for Gasworkers
Beneath nearly every American city, a crisis is unfolding. While talk of America's crumbling infrastructure focuses on bridges and roads, ports and airports, below ground the aging pipe networks...
Fastest Growing Jobs are in Green Energy
This post was written by the IBEW Media Center. The fastest growing jobs in nearly a quarter of U.S. states are IBEW jobs according to projections form the Bureau of Labor...
Trump's OSHA Cuts Put Workers at Risk
This post was written by the IBEW Media Department As the number of OSHA inspectors shrinks, enforcement action to safeguard workers is on the decline — at the same time that investigations...
Toledo Local Looks to Recruit from New Communities
This post was written by the IBEW Media Center. The Latino population in northwestern Ohio has risen steadily over the last 40 years. For Toledo,Ohio, Local 8’s Ricardo Jiménez, this...
Biden Courts the IBEW
Joe Biden might not be officially running for President, but he sure seemed like he was planning to jump in the race on Friday when he addressed the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (...
What Union is Qualified to Organize Amazon?
Oh, Amazon, what to do with you. First, you innovated e-commerce to become the world’s largest Internet retailer, and at the same time, you did your best to thwart organized labor at every...
The Rising Tide Lifting Women into Leadership
This post was written by the IBEW Media Center. Sally McKleinfeld has been helping female friends with their résumés for years. Now she’s developed a program to help even more women within...
What Does My Union do for Me?
A while ago I had a few members of Local Union 10 IBEW ask me "What does the union do for me anyway?" I was more than a little surprised to get that question from our own members. We talked...
IBEW Training: Confidence in the Next Generation
Being an intern at UCOMM offers many opportunities. One of those opportunities was being able to get a VIP tour of IBEW Local 3’s state-of-the-art training center in Long Island City, a...
A Tribute to Ed Hill: A Visionary
Back in 2014 UCOMM covered the NYC Labor Day Parade. That year, the Business Manager of Local 3 IBEW was the Grand Marshall and thousands of IBEW members marched in celebration of not just their...