IBEW Local 488 Features

When it comes to Electrical Work, cutting corners can cost you!

Are you a skilled electrical worker looking for fair pay, great benefits, and a secure future? We are actively building a highly skilled workforce to partner with our top-tier contractor base—and we want you on our team. Your employers often join associations—like the ABC, CECA, SAA, or IEC—to protect their company’s best interests. Doesn’t it make sense to join an organization dedicated to... more ...

Industry and IBEW News

Local Plans New Hall

https://biztimes.com/ibew-plans-new-union-hall-in-mount-pleasant/

IBEW Local 430 has filed plans to build an 11,500 square foot union hall in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin to replace its current facility in Racine, serving approximately 150 members as both a business office and meeting hall.

Senators Collins, Reed Honored by EEI, IBEW

https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senators-collins-reed-honored-by-edison-electric-institute-international-brotherhood-of-electrical-workers

EEI and IBEW presented Senators Susan Collins and Jack Reed with the John D. Dingell Award for their sustained bipartisan support of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, with Collins securing a $20 million funding increase to bring total LIHEAP funding to $4 billion in FY2026.

OpenAI Bets on Union Labor to Scale AI Infrastructure

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/11/openai-building-trades-union-data-centers

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a formal partnership with North America Building Trades Unions at a BlackRock infrastructure summit, committing $1.5 million over five years to support NABTU training and recruitment as the company projects it will need 20 percent more skilled tradespeople than currently exist to hit its 10 gigawatt compute target by 2030.

Packed Turnout as Local Re-launches Retirees Group

https://nwlaborpress.org/2026/03/packed-turnout-as-ibew-local-48-re-launches-its-retirees-group/

More than 90 retired members and spouses turned out for the first meeting of a revived IBEW Local 48 retirees group in Portland, a decade after the program went dormant, generating nearly 50 ideas for activities ranging from volunteer work and tool donations to new apprentices to regular social meetups across the metro area.

County Projects Draw Packed Crowd, Opposition at Planning Meeting

https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/03/18/franklin-county-data-center-projects-draw-packed-crowd-opposition-planning-meeting/

Hundreds of Franklin County, Missouri residents filled a high school gymnasium to oppose rezoning agricultural land for two proposed data center campuses, with local trades union representatives countering that the projects would bring thousands of union jobs paying over $100,000 a year while a planning commission recommendation still awaits final county commission approval.