IBEW Local Union 21 Vision

IBEW Local Union 21’s vision is to be informed, educated, and mobilized - ready, willing and able to quickly take action to assist in resolving disputes from the individual workplace all the way to the bargaining table.

Through a higher level of member involvement, our membership gains a greater voice in the political process, grows the union by organizing the unorganized throughout our jurisdiction, and creates a more prepared and powerful union – one that acts in the best interest of all IBEW Local Union 21 members, their families, and the communities in which they live and work.

Mission Statement Related To Employee Involvement

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 21 recognizes that we are among the finest workers in the communications industry. Acknowledging this, as well as our historic dedication to serving our customers, Local 21 is willing to participate in the management of the company.

This participation is contingent on joint involvement of the interested parties, and the demonstrated good faith of the company.

We acknowledge that some employee involvement activities offer real opportunity to participate in the decision making process of the company.

We look toward these efforts, in the spirit of mutual gains, to keep the company forerunners in the industry, and our members among the best trained and best compensated workers in our field.

We approach each of these activities with good faith and an open mind, looking forward to our share of mutual gains for our extra efforts. We maintain a healthy skepticism to that end.

We also remain ever vigilant that employee involvement will be geared toward the personal growth of our members, while applying their skills to improve the position of the company in the marketplace, within the confines of our collective bargaining agreement, and with the security of our members foremost in our minds.

September 1, 1998

Excerpt Taken From the Article 1, IBEW Local Union 21 By-Laws

The objects of this Local Union shall be to promote by all proper means the material and intellectual welfare of its members. We pledge ourselves to assist one another in securing a reasonable compensation for service rendered, to use our influence with other organized bodies, to advance the principles and practices of conciliation and arbitration in the settlement of any difference with our employer, to defend our rights and advise our interests as workers by all lawful means, to aid and encourage all honorable efforts that will better the conditions of labor to make our card and seal a certificate of honesty, fraternity, efficiency and reliability.

Excerpt Taken From the IBEW International Constitution

The Objects of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are:

• 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 of 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 and higher standard of living

• To seek security for the individual

• And by legal and proper means to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of our members, their families and dependents, in the interest of a higher standard of citizenship.