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1880s Childhood home of Daniel W. Tracy, IBEW leader, located at 1311 W. Walnut Street, Bloomington, Illinois. Daniel W. Tracy (1886–1954) was another west-side Bloomington Irish rail worker's son who achieved national leadership, as president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. New electric technology provided Tracy's ...
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 ...
Lonnie R. Stephenson (born July 1956) is a former American labor union leader.. Born in Rock Island, Illinois, Stephenson completed an apprenticeship as an electrical wireman in 1975, and joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
Iron work is a skilled craft that dates back to the late 19th century and is a result of the rapid rise in the use of modern steel in iron bridges and skyscrapers. [4] It was and is also an exceptionally dangerous job; hundreds of iron workers fell to their death every year in the late years of the nineteenth century.
Feurer, Rosemary, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, University of Illinois Press, 2006, cloth, ISBN 0-252-03087-7; paper, ISBN 0-252-07319-3 Filippelli, Ronald L., and McColloch, Mark D., Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers , State University of New York Press, 1995, hardcover, ISBN 0 ...
He joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1985, and held various posts in his local union before being elected as its business manager in 1993. In 2002, he moved to Las Vegas , where he became assistant business manager of the local, and succeeded in organizing workers at the Nevada Power Company .
The battle between the craft and industrial union philosophies led to a major membership loss for the AFL in 1935. In the first years of the Great Depression, a number of AFL member unions advocated for a relaxation of the strict "craft union only" membership policy but to no avail.
The IBEW Local Union 15 Workers Memorial lists at least six workers who died as a result of workplace accidents at Fisk Station: [16] [17] Peter J. Gregor, 35-year-old foreman was fatally burned on February 2, 1937. Robert A. Hurtienne, a 55-year-old station electrician fell from a ladder on October 15, 1938.