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IBEW Local 11 Plants a Flag in Downtown Los Angeles

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IBEW Local 11
Marvin Kropke, Bus. Mgr.
297 N. Marengo Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626) 243-9700

Organizers have recently planted a flag in downtown Los Angeles. We have visited over 200 jobsites since January talking to approximately 2,000 electricians and helpers. We are spreading the word that it is time for all of us in the trades to organize. The response has been phenomenal for the organizers. The news is out on IBEW 11 with 25 new contractors and several hundred new members joining the union this year already.

Race to the bottom

For at least two decades the construction industry has been on a ‘Race to the Bottom’. The once good jobs in the residential, and light commercial portions of the trade have become a low paying dangerous way to make a living. Old timers recall days when a single income could buy a house and support a family.
With the median house price of $566,000 in Los Angeles, most residential electricians can never afford to buy the homes they build. It has become high time to turn these residential jobs back into middle class jobs.

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Too many developers and General Contractors have been taking advantage of non-union electricians in L.A. They hire contractors that operate in the underground economy. The underground economy is a murky place where contractors provide no health care, pay low wages, cheat on the prevailing rate, have no workers compensation, pay in cash, don’t pay taxes, make workers give kickbacks, operate unsafe jobsites, and pay no overtime. We are here to help non-union electricians get the wages and benefits they deserve and to ‘Restore the Middle Class in Los Angeles.’

We are not a secret society….. So tell all of your electrician friends it’s time to join up. This year we will need hundreds of state certified electricians just to keep up with the all the work that is starting to break.

Tell your friends it’s time to join the IBEW. Call an organizer at (626)243-9793

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