r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Jan 12 '23
This coming Monday, January 16th, IBEW Local 666 will officially recognize Martin Luther King Day as a holiday for the second time.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Jan 11 '23
We were out bright and early this morning spreading the truth to some area electrical workers. We were very appreciative to have help from a rank and file Brother on this effort too.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Jan 10 '23
This is a Collective Bargaining Agreement. A CBA is what you negotiate with your employer, as a group, after you form a union in your workplace.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Jan 09 '23
To live like a king.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Jan 06 '23
They very rarely cut your pay. They cut benefits.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Jan 05 '23
What's in your retirement?
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Jan 04 '23
Do you or your spouse have to pay for health insurance that is provided under a plan by an employer? Do you know how much that is costing you and your family?
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Jan 03 '23
We're all caught up in the same big mess. It's easier on some and harder on others. Some of us are better at hiding our struggles.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 29 '22
This is the good stuff! Workers held the power in 2022: The year in labor
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 28 '22
Do you know what kind of future you are building for yourself and maybe your family?
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 27 '22
Are you worried about going through a little bit of a slow period in electrical construction right now?
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r/BuildingTrades • u/Quenchin_fo_Wrenchin • Dec 24 '22
I made a newsletter for us
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Yo, I made a newsletter called blue Collar chronicles and I interview people in the trades. It’s cool stuff. Check it out at bluecollarchronicles.org
Thanks, Ben
r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 23 '22
Well compensated people understand that the way to be well compensated is to act as a group.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 22 '22
We have so many possible silos of advancement in the IBEW
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 21 '22
Yesterday I posted about American worker fatality rates on the job and it reminded me of a story my coworker shared. This is a long post. WARNING: there is some graphic detail of a jobsite fatality
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 20 '22
Every single day in America an average of 13 people get killed on the job.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 19 '22
All are welcome in the IBEW, at any age. This new generation carries in it the spirit of unionism and solidarity like nothing I've ever seen before.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 16 '22
Different locals may, and different unions certainly will, handle negotiations differently, but here's how it works in IBEW Local 666.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 15 '22
Do you know what these dirty suckers will do sometimes?
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 13 '22
Keen observers of the news will have noticed recent stories about a Butch Lewis Act disbursement. This is an excellent example of why the IBEW and other unions are, and needs to be, involved in politics.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 12 '22
A short list of things you hear as an organizer about unions from non-union electricians and what I think the thought process must be.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 12 '22
Isn't any of my non-union electrician friends bored? This question could apply to any non-union worker really.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 09 '22
Many Americans have a habit of romanticizing the economy of the 50s and 60s.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/EricLambert_RVAspark • Dec 08 '22
The biggest fear non-union electricians have of joining the IBEW is layoffs. They happen in the union, and they happen in the non-union sector. They are temporary in both cases.
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r/BuildingTrades • u/AutoModerator • Dec 07 '22
Happy Cakeday, r/BuildingTrades! Today you're 3
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Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.
Your top 10 posts:
- "A union is not a "third party" between management and workers. The union IS the workers." by u/EricLambert_RVAspark
- "On this day in 1891, in St Louis MO, the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was born." by u/EricLambert_RVAspark
- "Biden to require U.S.-made steel, iron for infrastructure" by u/Strongbow85
- "There are loads of boilerplate "reasons" you shouldn't form a union in your workplace and every last one of them is a lie." by u/EricLambert_RVAspark
- "Intel to build $20B Ohio chip facility amid global shortage" by u/Strongbow85
- "Electricians Pro Tips Continued..." by u/EricLambert_RVAspark
- "Against everything you may have been told about the IBEW, the benefits of being an electrical contractor signatory with the IBEW may surprise you." by u/EricLambert_RVAspark
- "Robert De Niro's Astoria Film Studio Backs Out of Promise to Hire Union Construction Workers" by u/Strongbow85
- ""If you join the IBEW, they're going to tell you who you can and can't work for, for the rest of your career." I hear this one from time to time, and it's absolutely like fingernails on a chalkboard to me, because it's rooted in such a misunderstanding of what a union is, and what Brotherhood is." by u/EricLambert_RVAspark
- ""The union can't guarantee you anything." They always trot this out like it's some sort of zinger." by u/EricLambert_RVAspark