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Oct. 7—The local branch of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has been awarded a nearly $300,000 state grant to provide training for more than 30 electrical industry apprentices.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...
In 1891, Henry Miller founded a national organization for electricians at a convention held in his house in St. Louis with the local union being the first to join. [2] The Local 1 members continued to meet in rented facilities until 1928 when they purchased a former church in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. As the union grew and the ...
Trusteeship of local unions (takeover of a local by the national union) is not provided for in the UE constitution, and has therefore never occurred. From its founding through 2005 UE had an intermediate structure of geographic districts. In 2005 the districts were replaced by three regions, Western, Eastern [9] and Northeast. [10]
Regina Victoria Polk (February 14, 1950 – October 11, 1983) [a] was an American labor leader and an activist for women workers in Chicago during the 1970s and 1980s. She was first an organizer and then a business agent for Local 743, [3] the largest local in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at that time.
AT&T Reading Works was the No. 2 employer in Berks County in 1993, [12] but that was soon to end. In February 1994, AT&T Reading Works announced that it would be cutting 850 jobs over a 3-year period. [13] In 1994 the Reading Works' work force was reduced from 2,929 to 2,700 with most of the cuts in the Lightwave unit.
He was the business manager of the powerful IBEW Local 98 and a prominent political figure who helped numerous Democratic candidates get elected by directing donations and volunteers. [1] [2] [3] In 2021, he was convicted of fraud and resigned as business manager of Local 98. In 2023, he was convicted of 70 counts of embezzlement for stealing ...
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.