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EW Category: EW 2026 April

How the Earliest Sisters Helped Shape the IBEW

Mary Honzik couldn’t have imagined her present-day IBEW sisters, women who string high-voltage power lines, wire complex construction projects, even serve as foremen supervising their union brothers on work sites.

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April 1, 2026

Le local gagne une autre unité dans la signalisation routière

La section locale 258 à Vancouver en Colombie-Britannique a remporté une victoire de syndicalisation importante avec le vote récent d’un groupe de signaleuse routière et signaleur routier sur l’île de Vancouver pour être représenté par la FIOE.

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April 1, 2026

B.C. Local Earns Another Traffic Control Triumph

Vancouver, British Columbia, Local 258 scored a big organizing win when a group of traffic controllers on Vancouver Island recently voted to accept IBEW representation.

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April 1, 2026

Richard Douglas, retired journeyman, wireman/foreman, Washington, D.C., Local 26

“I graduated high school in 1972 in a small, blue-collar neighborhood where many of my neighbors were tradespeople working in the Washington, D.C., metro area. I chose to attend junior college and pursue studies in music. After all, it was the ’70s!

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April 1, 2026

A Growing Movement

The labor movement is growing, sisters and brothers, and the IBEW is helping to lead the way.

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April 1, 2026

Seizing the Moment

Every day seems to bring changing and contradictory economic news. But for the IBEW, the most important economic indicator isn’t the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It’s work on the ground. And as we will talk about at this month’s Construction and Maintenance conference, right now there is plenty to go around.

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April 1, 2026

New NLRB Attacking Historic Gains for Workers Under Biden-Era Board

After 10 months without a quorum at the National Labor Relations Board, a new 2-1 pro-employer majority has its eye out for cases they can use to undo precedents set by the previous board during four years of historic progress for workers and unions.

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April 1, 2026

Business Manager Educates Senators on Trump’s Attack on Power Projects

In a hearing room in Washington, a business manager from New Mexico explained to nearly a dozen senators how killing energy generation projects is sending utility bills through the roof while freezing out union workers.

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April 1, 2026

Trump Administration’s Labor Law Enforcement All but Disappeared in 2025

Federal worker protection cases and penalties collapsed in the first year of the Trump administration, part of a greater project that is killing regulations that protect workers and then failing to punish companies that violate the laws that remain.

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April 1, 2026

Tennessee Local Keeping Members at Home With Modular Jobs

Members of Nashville, Tenn., Local 429 were pleased when Modular Power Solutions told the local last year that it needed to add 400 IBEW electricians to help staff its new prefabrication facility in Mount Juliet.

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April 1, 2026

About the Electrical Worker

The Electrical Worker was the name of the first official publication of the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1893 (the NBEW became the IBEW in 1899 with the expansion of the union into Canada). The name and format of the publication have changed over the years. This newspaper is the official publication of the IBEW and seeks to capture the courage and spirit that motivated the founders of the Brotherhood and continue to inspire the union’s members today. The masthead of this newspaper is an adaptation of that of the first edition in 1893.

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About the IBEW

The IBEW represents approximately 860,000 active members and retirees who work in a wide variety of fields, including utilities, construction, telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, railroads and government. The IBEW has members in both the United States and Canada and stands out among the American unions in the AFL-CIO because it is among the largest and has members in so many skilled occupations.

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