Welcome to the Facebook fan page for IBEW Local 1, the birthplace of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers!
To learn more about our remarkable beginning watch the 6 minute video linked here:
http://youtu.be/QpK4x0aWFxQ
This page is devoted to the members of IBEW Local 1.
To organize all workers in the electrical industry in the United States and Canada, including all those in public utilities and electrical manufacturing, into Local Unions;
To promote reasonable methods of work;
To cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry;
To settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible);
To assist each other is sickness or distress;
To secure employment;
To reduce the hours of daily labor;
To secure adequate pay for our work;
To seek a higher and higher standard of living;
To seek security for the individual;
And, by legal and proper means, to elevate the moral, intellectual, and social conditions of our members, their families, and dependents, in the interest of a higher standard of citizenship.
The most highly skilled and professional workers in the electrical and telecommunications industry.
