EW-2025-April Archives - International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Maryland Local’s Blood Drive Honors Brother Killed in Workplace Accident

As a certified welder, Baltimore Local 410’s John Amig Jr. was keenly aware of how dangerous repairing a broken natural gas line can be.

“Certified welders do underground work and fabrication for the gas infrastructure,” explained Local 410 Assistant Business Manager Chris Kasecamp. “They’ll weld new gas mains together, and they’ll go out and repair existing ones with pressurized live gas inside.”

April 1, 2025

Patience, Relationships Lead to Big Win for California Local

San Bernardino, Calif., Local 477 officials saw attempts by the union trades to form a working relationship with their community’s public school district come up short for more than a decade.

So just over two years ago, Political Director Ben Pratt and others within the local decided to try something new.

April 1, 2025

Missouri, North Dakota Locals Reach Out to High School Students

With construction on the rise and college tuition prohibitively expensive for many, more high school students are taking a look at the trades. St. Louis Local 1 and Minot, N.D., Local 714 are two locals among many in the IBEW that are meeting this moment.

April 1, 2025

Local 26 RENEW Committee Brings Building Trades Together for Chess Tournament

Most people might not think of construction workers as chess aficionados, but the success of Washington, D.C., Local 26’s chess tournament proved otherwise.

“It was more successful than we thought it would be,” Local 26 President Tom Myers said. “It appears that the average electrician is more cerebral than commonly thought.”

April 1, 2025

We Know How to Build: How IBEW Members Rallied to Fight, Report On and Rebuild From L.A.’s Devastating Wildfires

For 24 days in January, the nightmare of an urban wildfire consumed parts of Los Angeles.

On Jan. 7, a bone-dry wind roared out of the Mojave Desert, over the San Gabriel Mountains and down into Los Angeles. The wind whipped small brush fires like a bellows in a forge.

March 24, 2025

Maryland Local’s Blood Drive Honors Brother Killed in Workplace Accident

Patience, Relationships Lead to Big Win for California Local

Missouri, North Dakota Locals Reach Out to High School Students

Local 26 RENEW Committee Brings Building Trades Together for Chess Tournament

We Know How to Build: How IBEW Members Rallied to Fight, Report On and Rebuild From L.A.’s Devastating Wildfires

A Storybook Project: L.A. Local’s Skill, Creativity Take Narrative Art Museum off the Page

Your Union, In Full Color: 2024 Photo Contest Winners

IBEW Helps Lead Way to 40th Defeat of New Hampshire ‘Right-to-Work’ Bill

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