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CONSTRUCTION ORGANIZING

Please contact Paul Kress at (505) 908-0767
Chris Namoki at (505) 270-8453, Robert Perea at
(505) 908-0270 or Alan Shepherd at (505) 206-0608 for information regarding Inside Construction organizing.

Alex Trujillo may be contacted at (505) 343-0611 to
organize Outside Line Construction workers.


Why is the IBEW Organizing?

There are several myths revolving around this question, some of which are as follows:

  • The IBEW wants more members strictly to increase their funds by way of collecting more dues.
  • The IBEW wants to bring in non-union electricians to take their jobs from them by putting existing union members to work ahead of the new members.
  • The IBEW wants to put the non-union contractors out of business by way of denying them qualified electricians.

The truth is the IBEW is a labor organization dedicated to the Labor Movement. Which means that their members believe that all working men and women are entitled to the same wages and benefits, regardless of whether they are working
on jobs that must pay prevailing wages due to Federal State laws or whether they are in the IBEW.

As workers, the IBEW believes that contractors should compete on their business abilities and their
estimating skills, not on how little they can pay their employees or on how bad the working
conditions are that their employees will tolerate.

If the workers do not join together, both wages and working conditions will deteriorate. Without the
presence of the Union, electrical work would be another minimum wage industry. Up until a few years
ago the electrical industry in New Mexico was on a downhill spiral. Non-union wages were stagnating.
Since that time the wages and benefits have been on the rise in both sectors. It is no accident that
this has happened.

The contractors did not all of a sudden decide that it would be a good idea. The reason wages and benefits have risen is because the IBEW is organizing. The reason is, when workers band together, contractors
know that they can no longer drive wages down by telling you to take it or leave it.

The reason the IBEW is organizing is, ORGANIZING MAKES SENSE!
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