'Right-to-Work' Bill Loses
Unions Rally to Keep Anti-Worker Law Out of N.H.

Billion-Dollar PLA
IBEW Members Will Link
Massive Wind Farm
to Grid

Protecting Solar Work
Tri-Trade Agreement

Retirement Benefit Boost
New Pension Created

North of 49°
Jurisdiction Win in New Brunswick Could Help Locals Across Canada

Au nord du 49° parallèle
La victoire de la section locale en C.-B. pourrait servir d'exemple

Mandy Tullis-Martin

A Bittersweet Gift

NEBF 2023

PBF Summary
Annual Report

From the ground to the sky, from wide shots to delicate close-ups, nothing captures the heart and soul of our great union better than the annual Photo Contest.

Members proved that again in 2023 with a stunning array of images that were difficult to pare down to finalists for online voting. In February, thousands of brothers and sisters cast ballots — one vote per person — for first, second and third place, with honorable mentions awarded in every IBEW branch that had entries.

The top prize of $1,000 went to journeyman lineman Phil Weller of Seattle-based Local 77, who couldn't resist the symmetry of his crewmates working on transmission lines in rural Washington state — one of those moments in an otherwise routine day, he said, that remind him of the joys and wonders of being a lineman.

Ryan Caulfield of Ventura, Calif., Local 952 won second place and $750 for a mesmerizing scene he captured at daybreak as he and an IBEW brother were finishing a night shift repairing streetlights and cameras. Third place, with a $500 prize, went to journeyman lineman Paul Salgado of Diamond Bar, Calif., Local 47 for his photo of an apprentice up a pole amid a patch of forest after a storm.

Cooper & Noble:
Improving the Benefits
You Have Earned

Clay Leon III

A Decade of Political
Work Pays Off:
IBEW, Building Trades
Win City-Wide PLA in
San Diego

N.C. Local Helps
Electrician, Family Fleeing War-Torn Ukraine;
Founders' Scholarship
Open for 2024 Entries;
IBEW Locals Celebrate Autism Acceptance

February 2024

'Do All the Things
That Bring You Joy':
New York Wireman Turns Scraps Into Art