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The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...
Lonnie R. Stephenson (born July 1956) is a former American labor union leader.. Born in Rock Island, Illinois, Stephenson completed an apprenticeship as an electrical wireman in 1975, and joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
Daniel W. Tracy (1886–1954) was another west-side Bloomington Irish rail worker's son who achieved national leadership, as president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. New electric technology provided Tracy's road to success. After 1893 his father worked for the local street railway.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) had represented workers at Commonwealth Edison generating plants since World War II, after a company-dominated representative group, called the Utility Employees Union, was deemed illegitimate by the NLRB in 1942. [9]
In 1891, Henry Miller founded a national organization for electricians at a convention held in his house in St. Louis with the local union being the first to join. [2] The Local 1 members continued to meet in rented facilities until 1928 when they purchased a former church in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. As the union grew and the ...
Born in Bloomington, Illinois, Tracy moved to Houston in 1910, where he became an electrician. Three years later, he joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). He worked as a lineman and wireman until 1916, when he became business manager of two local unions. In 1920, he was elected as a vice-president of the ...
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Brown completed an apprenticeship as an electrician, and found work for a telephone company. In 1916, he joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). From 1926, he was chief electrician for Robert White & Co., and during this period, he completed an LLB degree with the Chicago Law School. [1] [2]
He joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1985, and held various posts in his local union before being elected as its business manager in 1993. In 2002, he moved to Las Vegas, where he became assistant business manager of the local, and succeeded in organizing workers at the Nevada Power Company. [1] [2]