The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers celebrates its official 130th birthday on November 28, 2021, and as we have done each year since the Henry Miller Museum opened, we commemorate the occasion by sharing a bit of our early history and thanking those good brothers and sisters whose personal contributions not only helped save the home…

(Image showing leaders of the Central Trades and Labor Union preparing for their 50th anniversary "Golden Jubilee" celebration in 1937. Unfortunately, the elder Kassel did not live long enough to join his Business Manager, David Kreyling. The caption reads: This committee of the Central Trades and Labor Union is laying plans for the organization’s …

On the 128th anniversary of the founding of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers we salute the linemen of IBEW Local 1439 and thank them for supporting the mission of the Electrical Workers Historical Society. Founders Plaza construction images National Sisterhood United for Journeymen Linemen…

Historian and author NiNi Harris has a theory on labor unions that begins with the Civil War!Electrical Workers Historical Society

In the July, 1916, edition of The Electrical Workers' journal, our first Grand Secretary-Treasurer, J.T. Kelly, then Press Secretary for IBEW Local 1, gives us a glimpse into our founding convention with his Local Lines entry (page 245), "The meetings were held in a room on Franklin Avenue near Leffenwell. The sessions were long from 9 am to 11 pm,…

In this episode IBEW Museum Curator Curtis Bateman adds expert commentary as we listen to J.T. Kelly’s family narrate his first-person account of our early history, A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS. Special thanks go out to all the Kelly family members for their generous contribution to this year’s anniversary …

We tell the story of Brother Mike Nugent's rediscovery of the humble boarding house that hosted our first convention and listen in as IBEW members share their love and commitment for our great union!Electrical Workers Historical Society

The story behind the unique and lasting donation of one of the IBEW's oldest outside Local Unions! (NOTE: Phone interviews were conducted using the ECAMM addition to SKYPE on an iMac with a USB connected soundboard. Narration was over a Sterling Audio ST51 FET condenser microphone. A Zoom H6 was purchased and is now used in conjunction with a Shure…