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Local 1245 Helps Defeat Right-to-Work in New Hampshire

It’s no secret that so-called “right-to-work” legislation is 100% wrong for working families. Workers in states with right-to-work laws have lower wages, fewer benefits, higher poverty rates and more workplace fatalities. So when a new right-to-work bill came up in the New Hampshire state legislature this year, IBEW Local 1245 quickly volunteered to send a… [Read More]

Advisory Council Welcomes Special Guests from El Salvador Utility Union

  After spending five busy days visiting work sites and training centers all across Local 1245’s jurisdiction, the delegation from El Salvador’s Utility Union, STESEC, capped the week off with a moving presentation at the Local 1245 Advisory Council meeting. “The struggle for them is real, and it’s every day,” Local 1245 Business Manager Tom… [Read More]

Juntos en la Lucha — Local 1245 Welcomes Union Leaders from El Salvador

Flanked by eighty-three newly minted Organizing Stewards, the IBEW 1245 Advisory Council and Executive Board, a delegation of Salvadoran Electrical Workers Union (STESEC) joined together with a room filled with Local 1245 members to cement a newly launched sister relationship between IBEW 1245 and STESEC. STESEC is the utility union in El Salvador that represents… [Read More]

Local 1245 Helps Workers at Baltimore Gas & Electric Secure Union Representation

This article was updated on 1/13/17. The workers at Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) have been fighting for union representation for decades. But despite being met with aggressive hostility and union-busting from their employer, these workers refused to give up. In fact, they decided to double down. In March of 2016, BGE’s parent company, Exelon,… [Read More]

Baltimore Gas and Electric Workers Vote to Join IBEW

IBEW Local 1245 is sending heartfelt congratulations to the workers at Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), who voted to join the IBEW this week by a margin of 740 to 610. Local 1245 is proud to have supported this hard-fought organizing campaign. More details and highlights from the campaign will be posted on the Local 1245… [Read More]

Local 1245 Supports Organizing Drive at Baltimore Gas & Electric

A team of Organizing Stewards from Local 1245 travelled to Maryland this week to support the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union organizing drive at Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE). They’ve been up before dawn nearly every day, braving the East Coast winter weather, in order to spread the word about IBEW to the workers… [Read More]

Local 1245 Organizing Stewards Help Propel Electrolux Workers to Victory

Notwithstanding management intimidation, harassment, and a concerted effort to pressure workers to vote against unionization, the permanent employees at the Electrolux manufacturing plant in Nashville, Tennessee have voted overwhelmingly to join the IBEW. 93% of the 712 eligible workers cast ballots, and a whopping 75% voted to join IBEW Local 474, giving the union a decisive victory… [Read More]