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VOL. 19 | NO. 11 | November 2025

Challenge Coin Honors the Power of IBEW’s Veteran Members

Fueled by Solidarity, Oregon Members Power Through 196-Mile Relay Run

VEEP Gets National Stage, Potentially Large Funding Boost

Celebrating Labor Day 2025

House Bill Aims to Speed Up Negotiations for First Contracts

From the Officers

IBEW Story

Rachel Cannon, apprentice wireman, Salem, Ore., Local 280

During the Great Recession, I decided to go to graduate school because I couldn’t find...

North of 49

Transitions

who we are

Iowa Members’ Skills Impress Thousands At State Fair’s First Lineworker Rodeo

For the first time, an IBEW-led lineworker rodeo thrilled thousands of visitors at the Iowa...

Local Lines

Congratulations to Local 17’s Len Nowicki, JMAP graduate.
Local 47 Business Manager Colin Lavin presents Senior Assistant Business Manager Stan Stosel with his retirement watch after 37 years of supporting labor.
Local 71’s Calvin Martin and Jeremy Combs with Fourth District International Vice President Austin Keyser, center.
Local 99 member William Guilmette after winning his professional boxing debut.
Happy 125th anniversary, Local 113!
From left, Local 141 Golf Scramble winners Bryan Ramsay, Tyler Ramsay, Jason Balsei and Mason Ramsay.
From left, Local 357 Team “GutterBallz” members Matt Baeza, Steve Kirker, Dan McDow and “Carp” Carpenter. (Not pictured: Mario Galvez)
Local 601 held its annual softball invitational, with Local 134’s team winning the trophy.
Congratulations to Local 611’s 2025 graduating class of apprentices!
Dominic Nolan with Local 617 Business Manager/Financial Secretary Scott Wein and San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa.
Local 1347’s David Truesdale Jr. and Theresa Bautista McCain are working hard to make sure IBEW’s message is heard.

Find out what’s happening at the IBEW’s more than 800 local unions…

Grounded in History

Antenna to the Future: The IBEW TV Techs of 1950

From the first light poles to nuclear power to data centers, the IBEW has always...

In Memoriam

Members for whom PBF death claims were approved in September 2025.

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