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Local 134 Reaches Out Attracting New Talent

North of 49°
Organizing Plan Ignites Growth at Newfoundland and Labrador Local

Au nord du 49° parallèle
Grâce à ses efforts de syndicalisation, le local de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador a connu un succès rapide

$2.1 Trillion
The amount of federal funding and incentives authorized …

Alex "Archie" Alcantara

Organizing Canada:
The National Brotherhood Becomes International

Promises Made. Promises Kept.
Joe Biden's Winning Record
for Working Americans

Construction is booming. Jobs are soaring. Manufacturing is returning to American shores for the first time in a generation. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested to modernize the grid and employ electrical workers for decades to come. Labor laws have a new bite. Multi-employer pensions are safe.

For workers broadly and the IBEW specifically, it is a White House track record unlike any compiled in nearly a century.

IBEW leaders say President Joe Biden met every goal they set for him on behalf of the union's 775,000 members and retirees during his first two years, and they are confident he can achieve even more.

"We've had friends in the White House, but no one has ever had our backs like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris," International President Kenneth W. Cooper said April 25 after the candidates announced their run for a second term.

"It's impossible to count the ways they have made workers' lives better. Imagine what they can do with another four years," he said. "The IBEW couldn't be prouder to endorse them for re-election in 2024."

As Biden stressed that afternoon to an audience of thousands of building trades unionists, the administration's work isn't done.

"I look at the world through the eyes of Scranton and Claymont, Delaware, where I grew up," Biden told the legislative conference of North America's Building Trades Unions. "Through the eyes of the working people I grew up with. Through the eyes of people like you who have been able to make it because you're union.

"We had to fight hard to get prevailing wage, Butch Lewis [pension security], Davis-Bacon project labor agreements," he said. "We had to fight like hell, and we made a lot of progress because of you. But there's more to do, so let's finish the job."

Cooper & Noble:
No Greater Friend

David Mullen

Prevailing Wage Laws Work, Multistate Study Finds;
'We Never Stopped Applying Pressure': Hard-Fought Success on Rail Sick Days

Panasonic Battery Plant Means Work for Busy Kansas City Local;
'Lead by Example': Oklahoma Members Help Feed Needy Kids

Heat Safety in Focus as States Seek Emergency Federal Standards;
A Test That Could Save
Your Life

April 2023

'Like the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the IBEW': After 58 Years, Hockey Tournament Remains a Beacon of Brotherhood