EW September 2025 Archives

N.Y. Local Partners With Utility on Call Center Training Program

New York State Electric and Gas customers in upstate New York will soon be treated to an improved customer service experience thanks to a collaboration between Johnson City, N.Y., Local 10 and the utility company.

September 1, 2025

Union Sportsmen’s Alliance Keeps Retired Minn. Business Manager Active

Former Minneapolis Local 292 Business Manager Pete Lindahl has stayed happily active with the IBEW since his retirement in 2019, thanks largely to the union’s longstanding partnership with the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance.

September 1, 2025

En C.-B., un signe négatif devient un outil positif

Un organisateur syndical de la FIOE est un peu plus célèbre et les travailleuses et travailleurs à Kamloops en Colombie-Britannique connaissent un peu mieux les avantages de faire partie d’un syndicat grâce à une campagne légère sur les médias sociaux qui a commencé lorsqu’un entrepreneur non syndiqué a affiché la photo d’un organisateur syndical pour lui interdire l’accès au chantier.

September 1, 2025

In B.C., a Negative Sign Becomes a Positive Tool

An IBEW organizer is a little more famous, and construction workers in Kamloops, British Columbia, are a little more aware of the benefits of a union, thanks to a lighthearted social media campaign that started when a nonunion contractor put the local union organizer’s photo on a poster banning him from the job site.

September 1, 2025

Jessi Webster, journeyman wireman, foreman, Salt Lake City Local 354

“In 2016, I was bartending, and I had a couple of regulars who would come in for lunch. I always had their orders ready as they walked in the door. One of them asked me if I’d ever thought of doing something else. Her name was Jen Bingman, and she turned out to be an instructor at the JATC.

September 1, 2025

New Lineworker Training Center Coming to Tennessee

Hundreds of IBEW utility and outside construction apprentices will soon count Tennessee as a destination for learning, as work is soon expected to begin on a new Southeastern Line Constructors Apprenticeship and Training facility just east of Nashville.

September 1, 2025

N.Y. Local Partners With Utility on Call Center Training Program

Union Sportsmen’s Alliance Keeps Retired Minn. Business Manager Active

En C.-B., un signe négatif devient un outil positif

In B.C., a Negative Sign Becomes a Positive Tool

Jessi Webster, journeyman wireman, foreman, Salt Lake City Local 354

New Lineworker Training Center Coming to Tennessee

TVA Privatization Push Could Jeopardize 10,000 IBEW Jobs

How Rank-and-File IBEW Members Sealed a Successful Deal With CBS

A Labor Day Challenge

Record-Breaking Year

About the Electrical Worker

About the IBEW

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