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The IBEW Evolves
"Our combined energy should be used in organizing the unorganized of our calling, as that is the keystone to the success of all organizations."
-- President James McNulty, The Electrical Worker, 1904
The IBEW is the oldest electrical union in North America and the largest of its kind in the world. Despite severe financial hardships in the Brotherhood's first decade of existence, the idea of a national union had taken root. The growth that followed, through good times and bad, gave the union the strength to win a range of benefits that substantially improved the lives of members. Today, some 800,000 men and women are proud members of retirees of the IBEW. They enjoy the protection of union contracts and the security afforded by health care and pension plans, training and education and other programs. |