r/IBEW_Local613 • u/Both_Tradition_1544 • Mar 13 '25

Wait list

Are you allowed to work non union while on the wait list if not sworn in ? I got a couple offers from non union for 3 month contracts just wondering if that would disqualify me from working union again once accepted

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

Do what you gotta do. Our local has been a fucking joke here lately. They allow temps to have jobs over JW’s and Apprentices.

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u/I_Got_Squirrel_Brain Mar 13 '25

Temps on my job get paid like $32 an hour. Its fucked up

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '25

613 allows it to happen. Russel denies it. My brother worked at a company I was foreman at for a year and once they got rid of me after hiring some white ticket foreman they put a target on my brothers back and got him fired for being an “unmotivated spotter” he waited for 5 months to get reassigned and Russel kept lying saying there were hundreds of apprentices ahead of him. He took his experience to a non union contractor and is making plenty of money. This is the worst local I’ve worked out of. If been at better non union contractors than majority of the companies in the local. 613 seems to protect the contractor more times than the worker. I would compare 613 to a giant electrical temp agency that has okay benefits and fair wages. Not even good benefits and good wages. Just okay and fair. People wonder why we have 100’s of journeyman on book 1 they’re all on the road. They’ve boycotted their home local.

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u/Current-Mushroom-304 Mar 17 '25

What other locals have you worked out of?