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Tell Your Senators, Don’t Tax My Retirement

 

Weeks ago, two Republican senators unveiled a plan that threatens to destroy the multiemployer pension system that provides retirement security to hundreds of thousands of IBEW members.

 

IBEW Members Discover Historic Shipwreck in Great Lakes

 

When Bernie Hellstrom picked up an obstruction on his boat's sounder, he knew something big was there, but he had no idea how historic it was — or that he would discover it with an IBEW brother.

 

There’s a Terrible New Plan to Tax Your Retirement – Help Us Fight It Today

 

Senate Republicans are readying a radical plan to raise taxes on retiree pension benefits and put catastrophic burdens on union retirement plans, according to documents released last month.

 

A $14 Billion Facelift for One of America's Busiest Airports

 

Person A takes off from San Francisco for a 389-mile flight to Los Angeles International Airport's Terminal 4. At the same time, Person B exits the 405 freeway bound for the same destination just 2.5 miles away

 

The Numbers Are In: Union Construction Jobs Are Safer Than Nonunion

 

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 safety in a union.

 

History Hosts the Future at the 2019 RENEW/NextGen Conference

 

Kevin Mack, a low voltage technician out of Detroit Local 58, knew how everyone else in the room was feeling when they walked into the St. Louis boarding house where Henry Miller and nine other delegates founded the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1891.

 

NLRB Workers Forced to Fight for Their Own Rights Against Union-Busting Bosses

 

The National Labor Relations Board’s own workers rallied Monday against management abuses affecting their union’s ability to represent them, signaling new depths of the agency’s union-busting agenda.

 

Rail Workers’ Safety, Jobs in Jeopardy as Precision Scheduled Railroading Expands

 

An efficiency scheme being adopted by most large freight railroads threatens the safety and job security of members in the IBEW’s railroad branch, and International President Lonnie R. Stephenson is appealing to the Transportation Department to take a closer look at the practice and its potentially dangerous outcomes.

 

IBEW Women's Committee

Women workers are vital to the future of the IBEW and the labor movement. Here's how we're building a stronger union by getting IBEW women involved and giving them a voice.

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