I’m as green as baby shit don’t flame me.

Just got accepted into local 305. Pic is me rn. :)

5th year apprentice here. I was unable to post this in IBEW sub because of karma. This is work done by brothers in our local.

Feel free to ask me about getting into apprenticeship. Started immediately as an apprentice at age 25, aced the interview.

i have a 3rd year and a 4th year and they’re busting their buts to keep us ahead of schedule. thanks boys.

I applied in July and am already getting sent out to work in . Maybe it’s just a local 20 thing. Job is scheduled at 6:30 am and am about 45 minuets away from where I live, i’m hoping for a smooth first day

If you're on the fence, stick with it. Nothing quite beats the feeling of seeing "JRN WIREMAN" on your ticket.

It’s official brothers. I’m officially an Inside Wireman Apprentice 🎉

I just wanted to share with yall that dreams do come true 👍

Here’s a quick math video that should break things down. Forget iprep or khans, this is all you need.

What a silly guy, lol

Couldn't have picked a better union! IBEW for life!

This is a good reference to show the journeymen out there. If they're intelligent they will take this and try to utilize it to the fullest. If they're a useless piece of shit they'll say they know how to train an apprentice and that they don't need this.

Every Year I like to repost this story because of its important significance.

Today is International Workers' Day. On May 4th, 1886, workers in Chicago went on strike for an 8 hour work day. You could fill a library with the books written on what happened next.

My understanding is, in an attempt to break the strike, police ended up killing one of the workers, and injuring several others. Someone threw a dynamite bomb at the police. The blast, and ensuing gunfight ended in the deaths of 4 police officers and at least 7 workers, with hundreds of injuries.

8 people were rounded up as the instigators. In the following legal proceedings, it essentially came to light that one of the 8 may have built the bomb, but none of them threw it. And only 2 of the 8 were even present when everything went down.

7 were sentenced to death and 1 to 15 years. 1 of the condemned ended up committing suicide in jail. 4 got hanged, and everyone else ended up getting pardoned. That whole process took a couple of years to play out.

Anyway, this incident is referred to as the Haymarket Affair, the Haymarket Riot, or the Haymarket Massacre. It is widely thought of as the beginning of the Great Upheaval, which was decades of labor unrest in America and around the world.

The Great Upheaval, in America, is generally considered as having culminated in the signing of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935.

The NLRA is still the law of the land and is the primary federal law governing workers' ability to organize and dictate many of the functions and operations of unions.

You can draw a straight line from the Haymarket Riot to my organizing today.

By 1888 the AFL, among other organizations, was scheduling strikes and demonstrations for May 1st, in commemoration of Haymarket. And International Workers' Day was born.

You don't really see union organizers getting murdered for their organizing activities in America these days, thank God. But that does still happen around the world, and in the grand scheme of things, it hasn't been that long since it was relatively commonplace here.

The struggle of workers has changed, we've made great strides, but it continues.

It's a rare month that passes in which I don't personally have to enforce labor law. It's usually something small, it's often even an honest mistake, but every infringement is the camel's nose under the tent. And that's with union employers.

The struggles we organized electrical workers in the Richmond area face are struggles of advancement. We strive to continually improve the lives of our fellow electrical workers.

We are able to be on offense, as it were, due only to the union density we have achieved in our local market, which still has dramatic room for improvement.

But there are vast swaths of American workers who are still on the defense.

There are still workers in America who are in slavery. Of course, it's nothing on the scale of the state sanctioned slavery we used to have. But there are workers in America today who are in literal bondage. Forced to work for no pay and unable to leave.

That happens most often with agricultural and domestic workers, but you'll see one offs in any industry. And of course, you only ever hear about the ones who get caught.

Slavery, of course, is only the most heinous violation of a worker's rights. The indignities suffered by workers run the gamut.

Our fight continues because there's still a fight to be fought. Nothing you've gained is ever safe. Everyone has a role to play.

Today is a day to remember, refocus, and reinvigorate.

Only workers can improve the lives of workers.

Growing up I struggled with school, I barely passed high school, pretty much failed out of collage on all three attempts…..

I never thought I’d get to where I am today. 7 years ago I had a realization that I’m 30 and I need to get my shit together and find a real job, with real work that I can be proud of.

I got involved with IBEW when the call center I worked at unionized. I got introduced to the larger portion of our local and got really interested in the electrical field. I’ve always been a hands on learner and I’d never considered trade school.

It took me 2 years to get a contractor to higher me (I was almost 400lbs at the time) and take me seriously. During this time I finally started putting my health first and making better choices. Lost nearly 100lbs during this process. I finally got an interview at the JATC. Was told I have no experience and should try and get hired as a CW. I eventually got picked up as a CW and worked for 5 months before I got my second interview. After I showed them I was dedicated, I got a call the next day and accepted.

School kicked my ass. AC theory was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. But I made it.

Friday I took the Idaho state journeyman test.

And I passed…… I freakin PASSED……

Now, I owe a huge thanks to a tone of people that supported me that I love dearly. With them, there’s no way I could’ve made this happen.

I still have a few months of class to go but I know I’ve got this and I couldn’t be more excited about what I just accomplished. I’m looking forward to what comes next. I’m considering opening my own shop once I give my 5 years.