High unemployment and the decline of North America’s manufacturing base have left municipalities across the U.S. and Canada in a bidding war to attract new employers.
More than 3,800 miles of deep Pacific Ocean separate the remote tropical island of Guam and Honolulu, charter city of Local 1260, but that has not stopped the Hawaii-based local from becoming the fastest growing union on the U.S. territory.
From the high-octane power of NASCAR races to record moments in the NFL and Major League Baseball, IBEW freelance photographers and technicians bring the white-knuckled action to millions of Fox Sports viewers nationwide. And a new agreement with the network indicates they will continue to for at least the next four years.
The endless flat prairies of Wyoming make it one of the most fertile areas in North America for the development of wind power, with nearly 1,500 megawatts of wind energy capacity installed since 2001.
As utility companies face new deadlines for coal-fired power plants to comply with tight new EPA clean air regulations, many energy suppliers have plans to shutter plants that employ thousands of IBEW members rather than invest in costly upgrades.
