The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) represents approximately 725,000 members who work in a wide variety of fields, including utilities, construction, telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, railroads and government. The IBEW has members in both the United States and Canada and stands out among the American unions in the AFL-CIO because it is among the largest and has members in so many skilled occupations.
OUR MEMBERS
The very foundation of the IBEW is anchored in organizing and is defined in the instrument that makes the organization a democracy, its Constitution. The IBEW Constitution has slowly evolved over one hundred and six years. During that time, the basic philosophy upon which it was written has not changed.
WHAT IS A LABOR UNION?
It is an organization of workers joined together for a common purpose, for mutual aid and protection, to engage in concerted activity and collective bargaining, to elevate their conditions of life and labor; an organization by which ordinary people do extraordinary things.Thousands of workers across the U.S. and Canada belong to the IBEW.
