You are the most valuable asset to your company. It doesn’t matter if you are an apprentice, journeyman electrician or foreman. Your contribution to the success of your company is of the utmost importance.

Your job is, indeed, very important, and your value entitles you to high recognition and compensation.

YOUR PAY

Are you being fairly rewarded for your important contribution to the success of your contractor?

When you reach home exhausted from a hard day’s work, are you honestly satisfied that your efforts have been fairly compensated? Does your paycheck represent a fair return for the hours of labor performed?

Do the wages you have earned cover the grocery, mortgage, clothing, medical and credit card bills? Is there enough left over with which to buy that little extra something for you family?

How about the promise you made to take your family out for dinner next Sunday? Will you be able to keep it?

These are some of the questions you should think about.

YOUR WORKING CONDITIONS

Do you enjoy a genuine health and welfare plan, paid for entirely by the contractor?

Do you have a voice in planning the conditions under which you must work?

Are your concerns for job safety, compensation and fair treatment satisfactorily addressed?

Are you treated as a dignified American worker, whose rights to freedom and independence are guaranteed by law?

These rights and privileges are achievements which American workers, through their unions, won with heroic struggles in the past. You are entitled to enjoy them! But are you enjoying them now?

IBEW LOCAL 103

If you are deprived of these privileges, you need the help of a strong, responsible and efficient union. So let’s talk about the union and what it can and will do for you.

IBEW Local 103 is able and willing to help you to a happier working life. Local 103 is an ideal organization with trained leadership, particularly adapted to the needs of your problems. It has a record, since it was charted in electrical industry 1900, of continuous work on behalf of those men and women in the. Its members, numbering over 4,200 enjoying great wages and the best working conditions, are living testimonial to its practical leadership and to the soundness of its policies.

IBEW Local 103 believes in peaceful methods to resolve disputes. It is convinced that employers and employees can create a harmonious relationship by negotiating their differences through the medium of genuine collective bargaining. Strikes in Local 103 are a choice of last resort and one has not occurred since 1926. There are no winners with strikes, and it is the policy of Local 103 to ensure we will never experience one. Our strength and respected position in the industry have made strikes unnecessary. We enjoy the confidence and goodwill of the biggest, as well as the smallest, electrical contracting firms in the area.

YOUR CONDITIONS MUST IMPROVE!

The aim of the IBEW, Local 103, is to constantly improve the economic conditions of its membership. This belief is based on the sound moral principle that the American worker is justly entitled to a fair share of the wealth he or she helps to produce. It is also a sound business policy. Good wages and decent working conditions are highly beneficial to the welfare of management and the nation as a whole.

Men and women enjoying high wages and good working conditions are permanent assets to our highly mechanized and extremely efficient system of production. Higher wages mean more purchasing power, more sales, more employment and uninterrupted prosperity.

GOOD UNION WAGES ARE THE KEY

TO PERMANENT PROSPERITY

IBEW Local 103 strives to organize all employees in the electrical industry.

Where low wages and poor working conditions exist, are a constant threat to the high wages and excellent working conditions the unions have achieved in other organized shops.

This is your opportunity to stand up and assert your inalienable rights as a free American worker and a citizen of a great democracy.

YOUR COOPERATION IS VITAL

Your right to join a union of your own choosing is guaranteed by the laws of this country.

The National Labor Relations Act gives you the right to form or join a union for the purpose of collective bargaining.

The law prohibits your employer from interfering with your efforts to organize.

SOME EMPLOYERS WILL RESIST YOU

Employer resistance can be expected. There are also some employers who will resort to unethical practices to keep you from joining a union.

Through the application of questionable tactics, they may try to interfere with your legal rights to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.

They will try to confuse and mislead you, and to generate suspicion and distrust among you. Be forewarned. Listed below are some of the most common of those methods.

1. They may distribute bulletins and letters containing slander and abuse against organized labor.
2. They may call you to meetings and try to "reason" with you not to join the union.
3. They may tell you that the union will charge you excessive dues and assessments.
4. They may start rumors that the company will go out of business if the union is voted in.
5. They may tell you the company can legally refuse to recognize the union, even if a majority votes in favor of one.
6. They may threaten and intimidate you.
7. They may make extravagant promises.
8. They may even give you an increase in wages, to buy you off.

But, please remember, without a bona fide union agreement, backed by the power of organization, these momentary concessions may be withdrawn as soon as your desire to organize is at an end.