Our Mission! To provide Greater Boston’s developers with the best trained, most efficient, safest electricians and telecommunications specialists, while fostering our Union’s values of economic fairness, equal opportunity and charitable giving in the communities we work, live and raise our families.
IBEW 103 Advantage!
IBEW Local 103 provides the most skilled, safe, and knowledgeable electricians and technicians in Boston and it’s surrounding cities and towns. It’s an advantage to be a member. It’s an advantage to partner with us to man your work. It’s an advantage to utilize our manpower and our contractors to build and maintain your electrical system. We are a union, we protect union values, we advocate for those issues in the advancement of allowing men and women to earn a decent wage and have access to healthcare and retirement benefits.
More benefits of union membership.
Union employees make an average of 11.2% more than non-union workers.
96% of union workers have job-related health coverage versus 69% of non-union workers.
Union workers are more likely to have guaranteed pensions than non-union employees.
Unions help protect employees from unjust dismissal through collective bargaining agreements (CBA). Because of this, most union employees cannot be fired without “just cause.” This is unlike many nonunion workers who are considered “at-will” employees and can be fired at any time for almost any reason.
Our Promise
Working for better wages, better benefits, and fair working conditions are only a small portion of our Union’s dedication. Local 103’s members pride themselves on giving back their time and expertise to causes and charities serving those less fortunate throughout our jurisdiction.
Working for better wages, better benefits, and fair working conditions are only a small portion of our Union’s dedication. Local 103’s members pride themselves on giving back their time and expertise to causes and charities serving those less fortunate throughout our jurisdiction.
To organize all workers in the entire electrical industry in the United States and Canada, including all those in public utilities and electrical manufacturing, into local unions
To promote reasonable methods of work
To cultivate feelings of friendship among those in our industry
To settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible)
To assist each other in sickness or distress
To secure employment
To reduce the hours of daily labor
To secure adequate pay for our work
To seek a higher standard of living
To seek security for the individual
In the interest of a higher standard of citizenship and by legal and proper means, the IBEW will seek to elevate the moral, intellectual, and social conditions of our members, their families and dependents
Unions are about a simple proposition: By joining together, working women and men gain strength in numbers so they can have a voice at work about what they care about. They negotiate a contract with their employer for things like a fair and safe workplace, better wages, a secure retirement and family-friendly policies such as paid sick leave and scheduling hours. They have a voice in how their jobs get done, creating a more stable, productive workforce that provides better services and products. Always adapting to the challenges of our nation’s evolving workforce, unions are meeting the needs of workers in today’s flexible and nontraditional work environments. Because no matter what type of job workers are in, by building power in unions, they can speak out for fairness for all working people in their communities and create better standards and a strong middle class across the country.
Signing a union card is just the first step of a thorough process in determining whether a company wants to obtain a union contract. In order to obtain this contract, a majority of employees must sign union cards, authorizing them in collective bargaining with their employer. A petition can then be filed with the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board), requesting that a secret ballot elections be held to confirm that a majority of employees want the union. If that majority votes in favor of the union, the NLRB will certify the union as the official bargaining representative.
The union acts as the voice of individual employees. Unions challenge unfair or arbitrary decisions made by an employer or company. A union ensures that the individual employee takes part in decision’s regarding issues such as hours of work, level of wages and salaries, job assignments and safety. Companies sometime forget that the success or future of the company is a direct result of the employees. Therefore, employees must have a say in the future of the company. A union only maintains a sense of democracy within a company and should be considered a constructive influence.
Earnings by Occupation, 2012 Full-Time Wage and Salary Workers’ Median Weekly Earnings:
In nearly every occupational category, workers who are not members of unions have smaller paychecks than union members. By comparing the wages of workers within occupational groups, the cost of not being able to bargain collectively is clear.
