Organizing News and Stories!
Check this page for updates concerning IBEW organizing campaigns in Florida. Use information from other campaigns to help you in organizing your workplace. A union means all of us - so we hope the information here will help you stay informed and in the loop as we move forward with our efforts.
IBEW Push for Satellite Television Installers Continues
A multi-state effort to organize satellite television installers continues on several fronts, with two elections coming up in the next few weeks and the recent settlement of several charges against the company..
Florida Open Shop Workers Strike Over Unsafe Conditions (IBEW Int'l site)
Fired up by unsafe conditions on a school construction project in thinly-populated south Florida, over a dozen nonunion workers walked off the job and turned to IBEW's Florida Initiative for help.
IBEW Political Action Protects Florida Workers
When Florida workers join the IBEW, they not only get a voice on the job. They get a voice in Tallahassee, the state's capital.
Progress Report: Florida Construction Organizing
A growing number of contractors in Florida's residential construction market are coming up with an answer to a shortage of skilled workers--the IBEW
Press Release: IBEW Files Application to Intervene in Constellation/FPL Merger Process...
"We continue to assess all the ramifications of this proposal as we determine our position on the merger."
Florida Initiative Paves Way for Mass Construction Organizing
The Florida Initiative, IBEW's strategy for growth, is kicking in as entire crews of Florida's open-shop electrical construction workers sign up with the union.
IBEW Lights Up Tampa Bay
Members of Tampa Local 915 helped build the first lighthouse commissioned in Florida since 1927 on the grounds of the new location of a Tampa Bay environmental organization.
Campaign Update: Organizers Train for High Stakes Effort
Workers at the nonunion Rockwell Collins plant in Melbourne, Florida, may have substandard benefits and a lack of respect on the job. But at least they have jobs. Taking advantage of the workers’ limited understanding of their right to organize, the company is doing its best to reinforce a sense of insecurity in its 600-plus workers.
Lakeland Vote a Temporary Setback
A slim majority of Lakeland municipal utility employees declined to be represented by the IBEW on Nov. 15, following an apparently-successful effort by the city to turn them away from the union.
Gas Service Crew Rescues Family
The quick action of Tampa Local 108 members Lee Service, Kevin Brannon, Ronnie Griffin and Dave Stephens saved the lives of a family swept away by a rain-swollen stream.
IBEW Takes On Florida!
From the IBEW I.O. Web site.
Live Oak City Workers Sign First Contract!
Municipal workers in Live Oak, Fla., are full-fledged IBEW members of Gainesville Local 1205 following their unanimous October 28 ratification of a first contract. ...
Tallahassee City Workers Pursue IBEW Representation
More than 400 municipal workers in Tallahassee, Florida will have to wait for an election since the Tallahassee City Commission rebuffed union requests for card-check representation.
Florida Agreements Net IBEW New Work
Changing market conditions and increased pressure from nonunion firms have prompted the IBEW in Florida to take a dramatic new approach to labor agreements.
Campaign Rallies Rockwell Workers
An organizing campaign at the Rockwell Collins plant in Melbourne, Florida has workers rallying around the IBEW for better pay, benefits and a voice on the job.
Woman on the Lines Has Florida Ties
Sherry Daly is something of an anomaly in the outside utility construction industry. While women increasingly take up the construction trade as inside wiremen, and even the utility trade as linemen, the tough, cowboy atmosphere of outside construction remains dominated by men… with the exception of Daly.
Orlando IBEW and Miller Electric Land High-Rise Condo Project
Today, new ground is being broken by the city, the IBEW and Miller Electric with the construction of "The View," a 35-story condo project that will include retail shops.
North Florida Workers Vote IBEW!
A 39-employee unit of blue-collar municipal workers in Live Oak, a small rural city in northern Florida, voted overwhelmingly in favor of a voice on the job with the IBEW
Survey Shows Union Advantage Growing
As a percentage of the work force, the number of union members in the private sector is declining. But an Economic Policy Institute analysis shows that more than ever, membership has its privileges. more...
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