IBEW Promotes Green Jobs in Hard-Hit Imperial County
California’s Imperial County has historically been one of the state’s most economically distressed regions, suffering from decades of underinvestment, unemployment and poverty. And the Great Recession...
View ArticleNebraska IBEW Keeps it "Made in the U.S.A."
Years of offshoring and outsourcing has devastated America's manufacturing sector, leaving the Schneider Electric Manufacturing Plant in Lincoln, Neb., the last factory to make circuit breakers here in...
View ArticleIBEW Opposes U.S.-Korea Trade Agreement
For more than two decades, the American people have been told free trade was good for both workers and consumers. In reality, free trade policies, negotiated by both Democratic and Republican...
View ArticleID GOP Proposes Repeal of Long-Dead Prevailing Wage Law
Idaho Republicans, joining the national wave of attacks on working people, are targeting construction workers by introducing a bill last month that would prohibit the use of prevailing wage rates on...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Made in the U.S.A.?
Things were finally looking up for Dwayne Pendergraph after taking some tough licks.
View ArticlePhilips’ Playbook for U.S. Plants: First Acquire, Then Close
The doors were shuttered at the Stonco Lighting factory in Union, N.J., May 6 as the plant’s parent corporation, Netherlands-based Philips Electronics, moved ahead with plans to outsource the work to...
View ArticleEverybody Could Use a Union (VIDEO)
Everyone could use a voice on the job, even white-collar professionals like lawyers.
View ArticleTenn. Factory Worker Tells Truth About Outsourcing
Philips Workers Honored for Their Fight
View ArticleIBEW Says No to Green Outsourcing
A plan by Sempra Energy, the corporate parent of San Diego Gas and Electric, to outsource green energy production to Mexico is facing sharp resistance from San Diego Local 569, supported by a...
View ArticleVerizon Strike: Day 2
More than 45,000 Verizon workers from Massachustts to Virginia went on strike Sunday. Aug. 7, protesting efforts to take away hard won gains that have helped telecommunications workers secure a spot in...
View ArticleVerizon: Avoiding Taxes, Squeezing Workers, Raking it In
The Verizon strike enters its third day as more than 45,000 employees protest the company’s demand for more than $1 billion in cutbacks to health care, retirement and other benefits.
View ArticleUnskilled Replacement Workers Put Verizon, Public at Risk
As the Verizon strike enters its second week, thousands of untrained replacement workers and managers have been sent to do the jobs of more than 45,000 IBEW and CWA members up and down the East Coast.
View ArticleWisconsin Workers: Hope for the Holidays
While your family is celebrating the holidays this year, workers in Wisconsin continue to fight for their rights.
View ArticleRomney Bashes Unions Now, But Praised Them During 2002 Olympics
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been going after organized labor with particular vehemence on the campaign trail, telling members of the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors...
View ArticleTime for a Second Bill of Rights? Campaign Refocus National Debate on...
At a press event, union leaders announced plans to launch a national campaign to refocus America’s national priorities on the needs of working men and women, demanding an economy that works for all,...
View ArticleElectrical Workers Tell Capitol Hill: ‘Let us Keep Our Healthcare’
Electrical workers are raising the alarm about loopholes in the Affordable Care Act that threaten to undermine quality coverage for more than 26 million Americans.
View ArticleCEO and IBEW Partner to Bring Back Union Jobs
A CEO and a union working together to bring jobs back from China? It's happening in Texas.
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