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Commitment and persistence helped oppressed workers at an eastern Illinois manufacturing plant, pictured here before its 2024 purchase by Conagra, successfully organize with Danville Local 538 and ratify a first contract.

Illinois Manufacturing Workers Win Multiyear Fight for First Contract

An arduous five-year campaign to achieve IBEW representation is successful at last for the more than 160 men and women who work at a Conagra cooking spray manufacturing plant in eastern Illinois, after they ratified a collective bargaining agreement between Danville Local 538 and the North American food conglomerate.

November 8, 2024

Salt Lake City Local 354’s VEEP graduation cohort from earlier this year. Greg McMurphy from the Electrical Training Alliance is to the far left, Utah Electrical Training Alliance Director Mike Lanoue is in a dark shirt and tie, JATC Instructor Nick Bryant is fourth from the right, and Local 354 organizer and Eight District Veterans Committee representative Tony Sorro is to the far right.

With New Locations, VEEP Helps More Veterans Go From ‘Brotherhood to Brotherhood’

Glynnis Landfair has firsthand experience with how military members feel when their active duty ends.

November 7, 2024

Get Out the Vote 2024: Members Hit Pavement, Phones to Fight for Pro-IBEW, Pro-Worker Future

From city halls and state legislatures to Congress and the White House, IBEW activists are making a final push this

November 1, 2024

Spike in Union Election Petitions Means More Power for IBEW, All U.S. Unions

Petitions for union elections jumped 27% in the last year, according to figures from the National Labor Relations Board that

October 30, 2024

The recently announced Clean Transportation and Advanced Manufacturing Electrical Training Trust aims to craft apprenticeships for workers in battery and advanced manufacturing. Photo Credit: San Diego Local 465.

Cutting-Edge Training Rolling Out for Battery, Manufacturing Apprentices

Specialized apprenticeships across the IBEW are on the way for members who work in the battery and advanced manufacturing industries, thanks to recent efforts from local leaders throughout California and in the union’s Ninth District office.

October 18, 2024

Retired Olympic Athlete Finds a Successful Second Act With the IBEW

Vacaville, Calif., Local 1245 member Paul Terek (in dark blue) is a reactor operator at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power

October 8, 2024

How California Locals Nurtured Kamala Harris’ Pro-Union Agenda

By the time Californians elected Kamala Harris as attorney general in 2010, the subprime mortgage crisis had hit their state

October 4, 2024

For Minnesota Locals, Tim Walz Has Always Been ‘One of Us’

From the raucous, jam-packed floor of the Democratic National Convention, Greg Hansen flashed back 19 years to a Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor

October 4, 2024

Women Learn From Women at Louisville Local’s Barrier-Breaking ‘EmpowHer’

When Jackie Norman was hired as an organizer with Louisville, Ky., Local 369 last September, she was asked by Business

October 3, 2024

Canada Enacts Anti-Scab Law Unveiled at IBEW Local

Local 213 Business Representative Manny Randhawa greets Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It was during that visit to Local 213 in

September 25, 2024

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