Our Founding Principles:

OBJECTS

The objects of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are:

• To organize all workers in the entire electrical industry in the United States and Canada, including all those in public utilities and electrical manufacturing, into local unions,

• To promote reasonable methods of work,

• To cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry,

• To settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if posssible),

• To assist each other in sickness or distress,

• To secure employment,

• To reduce the hours of daily labor,

• To secure adequate pay for our work,

• To seek a higher and higher standard of living,

• To seek security for the individual,

• And by legal and proper means to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of our members, their families and dependents, in the interest of a higher standard of citizenship.

Declaration of the IBEW