International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Want to join an elite membership of skilled craftsmen and women who are trained to be the best? Looking for a defined benefit pension? Excellent healthcare for you and your family? A generous annuity plan? If you answered “Yes”, then the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is right for you.
More Than Excellent Wages
Our Apprentices Have An Opportunity To Build A Career In The Construction Trades
Learn With The Best
Earn While You Learn
Unlock Your Future
Join A Brotherhood Of Skilled Craftsmen & Women
As union members, we bargain collectively with our employers over wages, benefits, and rights.
Most of us have very limited bargaining power as one person, but as a group, we are strong. And, with a good negotiated contract, we have legal protections we would not have otherwise.
Our History
The First Convention was called in St. Louis on November 21, 1891. Ten delegates attended, representing 286 members. The adopted name for the organization was the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (NBEW). The delegates to that First Convention worked night and day for 7 days drafting the NBEW’s first constitution, laws, ritual, and emblem. The image of a fist grasping lightning bolts is still used as the IBEW logo.
What We Do
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) represents more than 800,000 members who work in a wide variety of fields, including utilities, construction, telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, railroads and government. The IBEW has union members in both the United States and Canada and stands out among the American unions in the AFL-CIO because it is among the largest and has members in so many skilled occupations.
Work Anywhere In West Virginia
Our jurisdiction covers all of the fifty-five (55) counties of West Virginia. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) have multiple locals all over the Mountain State. We have training centers in Wheeling, Clarksburg, and Parkersburg. Local 246 in Steubenville, OH also is a member of the West Virginia Building Trades and has a training center.
What Type Of Work Does An Electrician Do?
A skilled electrician specializes in electrical wiring of buildings, transmission lines, stationary machines, and related equipment. Electricians often install new electrical components and then can maintain and repair existing electrical equipment/infrastructure.
Why Join An IBEW Apprenticeship?
Students in the electrical training ALLIANCE training programs earn while they learn by doing apprenticeships. Apprentices receive excellent wages, paid health benefits, pension, guaranteed wage advancement, and an employment atmosphere with safe working conditions.
Become An Apprentice With The WVBT
Join IBEW Local 141
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IBEW Local 141 JATC
Wheeling, WV 26003
(304) 242-3870
Coordinator: Mark Dunfee, Sr.
markdunfee@aol.com
Join IBEW Local Union 317
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IBEW Local 317 JATC
Huntington, WV 25701
(304) 429-5013
Apprenticeship Coordinator: Tim Akers
Join IBEW Local Union 968
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IBEW Local 968 JATC
Parkersburg, West Virginia 26101
(304) 485-7412
Apprenticeship Coordinator: Mark Holbert
Join IBEW Local 466 JATC
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IBEW Local 466 JATC
Charleston WV 25302
(304) 345-5166
Apprenticeship Coordinator: Dustin Vaughan
Join IBEW Local 596 JATC
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IBEW Local 596 JATC
Clarksburg, WV 26301
(304) 622-0151
Apprenticeship Coordinator: John Young
Join IBEW Local 246 JATC
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K W Gasser Training Center
Steubenville, OH 43952
740-282-7572
Training Coordinator: Brian Ferguson
https://sejatc.org/
Join IBEW Local 307 JATC
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IBEW 307 JATC
Cumberland, MD 21502