Is This The Future of the IBEW?
Tradesmen International, founded in 1992, is recognized nationally as the construction industry’s premier source for high-caliber, skilled craftsmen with thousands of employees in all trades across America. We hire our employees on a permanent basis with the goal of providing you job stability, a good income and full benefits.
As [...]

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Blue Collar U.S. Males Are Taking the Biggest Hit During This Recession
One statistic that stands out in America’s recession-stung economy is the unemployment rate for adult men: in April for the second month in a row it surged ahead of the national average to 9.4 percent versus 8.9 percent for all workers. The jobless rate [...]

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IBEW Sees Future in Alternative Energy Jobs
MINNEAPOLIS - Darryl Thayer, a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 292 in Minneapolis, hardly received a visionary’s welcome when he addressed the Minnesota legislature in 1968 about the need to develop solar energy and wean the state from fossil fuel-based sources. Worse yet, says Thayer, many of his [...]

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What Can a Union Do For You?

Employees bargain with strength for wages, benefits and rights when they join together. That’s why it’s important to unionize.
Under the employment at will doctrine, the cornerstone of American employment law, in general terms, unless you belong to a [...]

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IBEW Wins Rat Court Case

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A large inflated rat such as this one, put up by union protesters in Woolwich, N.J. in 2001, has been guaranteed free speech rights in the state.
In a case that pitted an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union local against a central Jersey town, the high court ruled unanimously [...]

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Union Membership Rises for Second Straight Year
WASHINGTON — Amid widening unemployment, home foreclosures and credit woes, union membership jumped to 12.4 percent of the work force last year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the ranks of organized labor rose by 428,000 workers — the biggest annual gain since the government began compiling such data [...]

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TVA Ordered to Clean Up Coal Fired Power Plants
(CNN) — A federal judge has ordered the Tennessee Valley Authority to clean up four coal-fired plants that he said were engulfing parts of North Carolina with air pollution — emissions that fouled the region’s health, economy and natural resources.

Properties near ground zero of the December 22 [...]

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