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VOL. 19 | NO. 12 | December 2025

Retired Secretary-Treasurer Remembered as ‘Epitome of a Labor Leader’ — Jerry O’Connor: 1934 – 2025

New York Members Are Installing a Record‑Setting Airport Solar Array

IBEW Locals Reach Out to Spanish Speakers, Offer English Classes

IBEW Technicians Shine in Drama-Filled World Series

Ninth District Hosts Emergency Mental Health Summit

From the Officers

IBEW Story

Kevan Link, building and bridge electrician, Philadelphia Local 744

“In 2008, I dropped out of college. It just wasn’t for me. I was looking...

North of 49

Organizing Wire

Circuits

Transitions

Power at Work

Michigan Local Successfully Lobbies for New ‘Responsible Bidder’ Rules

Lansing, Mich., Local 665 joined other unions and signatory contractors to get a local ordinance...

Grounded in History

The Right of Reciprocity

The first health and welfare plans offered by IBEW locals appeared in the 1950s. Locals...

who we are

Generous Members Make Holidays Brighter

Ann Arbor, Mich., Local 252 Little Patients, Big Smiles Vicki Loy was wiring a safety...

LOCAL LINES

Local 16 member Sara Schapker with her team in Kenya, who worked with the JD Sheth Foundation on a wattle-and-daub home for a widow with 10 children.
Local 24 members do their part in wiring the modern world.
Frank Vanah, Eugene Orlando and Herb Meyers with Local 38 Business Manager Dan Gallagher and President Michael Muzic after receiving their 70-year service awards.
Local 46 members continue to build for the future with hope, determination and solidarity.
Local 134 celebrated its 125th anniversary with a family picnic in September.
Local 150 members walked in Zion, Ill.’s Labor Day Parade and won the Mayor’s Choice Award for the third year in a row.
Local 158 sponsors the caterpillar display at the Green Bay Botanical Garden of Lights.
Brother Ivan Zhirnov (far right) and Local 164 brothers help the Best Day Foundation to bring the beach fun.
Hardwick Electric linemen, proud municipal utility members of Local 300.
Local 302 Business Manager Julian Vinatieri accepts the Union of the Year Award from Contra Costa Building and Construction Trades Council Executive Director Tim Sbranti.
Solidarity in action at Local 352: From left, (front row) Zina Williams, Devin Logan, Evalyn Coffee, Cale Boak, Valencia Fisk, Venita Young, Kerra Tolbert, O’sha Tolbert, Kristy Bodary, Debbie Foster-Myers, Melissa Chavez and Tammy Harris; and (back row) Renee Drake, Eric Boak, Robert Kingsbury and Kai Malikh N. Tolbert.
Local 702 staff and executive board with retiring member Kevin Leehy.
Local 728’s July graduates: From left (back row), Benoit Cloutier, Anton Corteza, Tavaris Cleckley, Rebecca Goodrum, Alliette Acevedo, Jacob Welk and Jacob Shue; and (front row) Jason Gibson, Mickelson Henry, Addison St. Luce, Amanda Rosana, Amanda Ordonez and Nicholas Dydych.

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Retirees

Local 3/Central Florida chapter retirees’ held a luncheon in Florida in March 2024 with Business Manager Chris Erikson.
Local 3/Nassau County chapter retirees enjoy the Long Island Education Center on Long Island Sound.
Local 3/Suffolk County chapter retirees at the Long Island Education Center.
Local 5 member Paul Karpan.
Local 35 retirees at the club’s annual outing.
From left, Local 110 member Dick Vitelli; Local 292’s Jim Marold; Local 242’s Jim Brown; Billy Taney’s wife, Carol; and Local 294’s Greg Topel.
A group of 20 Local 134 retirees made a trip to Cantigny Park in October to see the beautiful formal gardens, the First Division Museum and Military Tank Park.
Local 257 retirees and Labor Day Parade attendees, from left, Ronnie Martin, Don Stradford, Dave Loazia, Bill Jurgensmeyer, Elaine Jurgensmeyer, Sam Hamacher, Connie Hamacher, Hershel Schultee, Ron Holzhauser and Judy Holzhauser.
Local 313 2025 Retirees Pin Ceremony.
Local 317 Retirees’ Club President Jerry Booth presents a 60-year service award to Clyde Dempsey.

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In Memoriam

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

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