Illinois Manufacturing Workers Win Multiyear Fight for First Contract

 

An arduous five-year campaign to achieve IBEW representation is successful at last for the more than 160 men and women who work at a Conagra cooking spray manufacturing plant in eastern Illinois, after they ratified a collective bargaining agreement between Danville Local 538 and the North American food conglomerate.

 

With New Locations, VEEP Helps More Veterans Go From 'Brotherhood to Brotherhood'

 

Glynnis Landfair has firsthand experience with how military members feel when their active duty ends.

 

Rhode Island Local Organizes Charter School Teachers

 

Job descriptions for a telecom worker and a teacher don't have much in common, but both have a right to be heard at work.

 

Get Out the Vote 2024:
Members Hit Pavement, Phones to Fight for Pro-IBEW, Pro-Worker Future

 

From city halls and state legislatures to Congress and the White House, IBEW activists are making a final push this week to urge their brothers and sisters to vote for candidates who will always put workers first — and to do it now.

 

Training, Jobs, Pensions: Harris Has Workers’ Backs

 

She cast the deciding vote to save union members’ pensions. She broke a Sen­ate tie to make historic job-creating investments in U.S. energy production and high-tech manufacturing. She’s visited IBEW training centers nationwide to promote union apprenticeships. She even headed an unprece­dented White House task force on organizing and worker empowerment.

 

Harris Running Mate Tim Walz ‘One of Nation’s Most Pro-Union, Pro-Worker’ Governors

 

Tim Walz, a veteran, union member and football coach, and Minnesota's two-term governor, brings a record of radically improving the lives of working families to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' ticket.

 

IBEW Contractor Startup Class

 

One sure way to grow IBEW marketshare is to encourage more IBEW members to go into business for themselves. That’s what the Fourth District’s contractor startup class is all about.