The IBEW
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
is a labor union founded in 1891 representing workers in the
electrical industry throughout the United States and Canada. Local
617 is the local union of the IBEW serving San Mateo County.
What does Local 617 have to offer me?
- The union wage from the first hour of employment with a
contractor
- Employer paid pension plans
- Employer paid health insurance for you, your spouse and your
dependents
- Historically good availability of work
- Conditions of employment that are covered by a contract
- A training and apprenticeship program
- A career that you can work at until you reach retirement age
- Being a part of a brotherhood of electricians
- Having paid Local 617 business officials promoting the
interests of the membership
What are the objectives of the IBEW?
- To organize all workers in the entire 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 in 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
—from the preamble to the IBEW constitution
