Check your check!

Employer’s often try to scare employees by telling them that having union representation means that they’ll just have to pay dues. The truth is, you're probably paying more right now. Check your paystub and see if you can find these examples…deductions in your pay that union representation can put back in your paycheck.

  • Your retirement should be funded in addition to your pay. Employer-paid benefits in IBEW agreements include defined contribution annuities and defined benefit pensions.

  • Most medical plans include out-of-pocket costs such as a deductible or copay. Any medical self-contribution for your premium that is deducted from your check is an additional cost. Employer-paid benefits in IBEW agreements include health coverage, often with better benefits and lower out-of-pocket costs.

  • Is your employer deducting yet another premium from your check for AD&D and/or life insurance? This would be also included in the employer-paid benefits with IBEW representation.

  • IBEW-NECA sponsored apprenticeships are funded by…you guessed it; employer paid hourly benefit contributions. The world-class Electrical Training ALLIANCE programs are approved by the Pennsylvania Apprenticeship and Training Council and by the Federal Committee on Apprenticeship, and are recognized across the U.S. and Canada.

  • Another benefit contribution deducted from your pay? It wouldn’t be with IBEW representation!

  • They must be joking…right?

Unions can’t fight for worker benefits without dues, and IBEW benefits include lifelong pensions and defined contribution retirement plans, insurance, training and more, without multiple deductions from your pay.

Protect your costly tools!

Some employers expect their workers to bring their own power tools, which we invest a fortune in, to the company’s jobs where they can be worn out, broken, or stolen. IBEW agreements limit required personal tools to a list of hand tools. Save your valuable personal power tools for your personal projects. Employers would require you to bring your own electric conduit bender if they thought they could get away with it!