President Biden Mandates PLAs on Large Federal Projects

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that will require project labor agreements on federal construction projects over $35 million.
 
"The executive order … is going to help ensure that we build a better America, we build it right, we build it on time and we build it cheaper than it would have been otherwise," Biden said before signing the order on Feb. 4.
 
A PLA is a multiemployer contract that covers an entire construction project or projects and creates a uniform and stable labor relations system by setting terms like wages, employment conditions and dispute... Read More
July 2022

Milestone Federal Policy to Empower Workers

The Biden administration’s high-level task force is actively instituting policies to support unionizing and collective bargaining.

The first-of-its-kind task force that President Joe Biden created last year to identify ways that his administration can help empower workers and strengthen unions has returned with nearly 70 recommendations for federal agencies to pursue.
Their 43-page report is a roadmap for bolstering workers' rights and bettering their lives through policies that support union organizing and collective bargaining, goals Biden has championed from the White House bully pulpit like no president before him.
 
"This is a significant milestone," International President Lonnie R. Stephenson said. "By... Read More
Build Back Better, July 2022

Biden Administration Plan Would Raise Wages on Federal Projects

A labor department plan to strengthen federal prevailing wage rules and enforcement under the Davis-Bacon Act would put more money in the pockets of an estimated 1.2 million U.S. construction workers.
 
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said the changes would “help us make sure our skilled workers and wages can’t be undercut” and are especially timely as projects funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law surge nationwide.
 
“Federal dollars should be used to create good jobs in local communities all across our country,” Walsh said. “These proposed regulations are good for... Read More
Build Back Better, July 2022

IBEW Members Highlighted at White House Rollout

Members of the IBEW were front and center for President Joe Biden’s White House announcement of Siemens USA’s plan to invest $54 million to expand its manufacturing facilities, a growth that promises to bring at least 300 new jobs to the company’s IBEW-represented workplaces in California and Texas.
Siemens makes components that support a variety of technologies, including electric vehicle chargers, computer circuit boards and the file servers that fill data centers. The company’s planned expansion will send about $40 million to Pomona, Calif., to build a new hub where Los Angeles... Read More
Build Back Better, July 2022

Pres Stephenson : Happy 4th Message (Video)

https://youtu.be/AuZXXa6hEJI

Source:ibewhourpower.com

Pres Biden Lauds Union, Touts Infrastructure Jobs (EW)

http://www.ibew.org/articles/22ElectricalWorker/EW2206/MakingHistory.0622.html

Source:ibew.org

Renewal and Commitment (EW)

http://www.ibew.org/articles/22ElectricalWorker/EW2206/StephensonCooper.0622.html

Source:ibew.org

EWMC Touts Quote, Bridge to the Middle Class (EW)

http://www.ibew.org/articles/22ElectricalWorker/EW2206/AMoreInclusiveUnion.0622.html

Source:ibew.org

Not Just Starbucks. How 2 Cafes Were Changed by Union Drives

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/01/1105117961/starbucks-union-organizing-labor-teamsters-coffee-workers

Source:npr.org

2021 IBEW Photo Contest Winners

https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/22Daily/2206/220624_photocontest

Source:ibew.org