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For a quarter-century, The Electrical Worker has asked you to send in pictures that showing how we are all bound together, and then vote on your favorites. The editors looked at hundreds of submissions and picked out just a few that we believed were visually interesting and told us something important about the Brotherhood in 2022. Most years, there is a balance in the submissions: members at work; IBEW events, such as parades; or beautiful places with no one around, framed by transmissions lines or turbines built and maintained by IBEW members. Not this year. Every picture selected as a finalist, and most of the ones submitted, held a member at work in its frame. This year's finalists showed members working alone and together, in the air and underground, sometimes in stunning landscapes and sometimes in a dusty concrete cube, but always at work. One other truth told by our finalists, and especially the winner you chose, was that the work never ends. There is no minute of the day or night when the members of the IBEW are all at rest. Detroit Local 17 journeyman outside lineman Richard Przybylowicz (pronounced sheh-va-LO-vitch) was working the "afternoon shift" for utility DTE. He was reporting for work at 3:30 p.m. for a 16-hour shift that didn't end until 7:30 the next morning. That's a lot of time to look at the moon. It was one day after the full moon, called the "waning gibbous" phase. "I'd heard somewhere that there was some kind of a weird deal with the moon that night," he said. When he pulled up to the job — a truck had clipped a cable line, and the primary had fallen off a cross arm near Newport, Mich. — his partner, Local 17 member Jerry Tarjeft, was already up in his bucket to get an overview. |
 
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