International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers - wikipedia International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2009 ) IBEW Full name International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Founded 1891 Members 725,000 ( 2014 ) Affiliation AFL - CIO, CLC, NAMTU Key people Lonnie R. Stephenson, president Office location Washington, DC Country United States, Canada, Panama, Guam and Wake Island Website www.ibew.org The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ( IBEW ) is a labor union which represents nearly 750,000 workers and retirees in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Panama, Guam and several Caribbean island nations ; particularly electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and linemen and other employees of public utilities. The union also represents some workers in the computer, telecommunications, broadcasting, and other fields related to electrical work. It was founded in 1891, 2 years before George Westinghouse won the electric current wars by lighting up the Chicago worlds fair with AC current, and before homes and businesses in the United States began receiving electricity. It is an international organization, based on the principle of collective bargaining. Its international president is Lonnie R. Stephenson, and is affiliated with the AFL - CIO. The beginnings of the IBEW were in the Electrical Wiremen and Linemen 's Union No. 5221, founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1890. By 1891, after sufficient interest was shown in a national union, a convention was held on November 21, 1891 in St. Louis. At the convention, the IBEW, then known as the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ( NBEW ), was officially formed. The American Federation of Labor gave the NBEW a charter as an AFL affiliate on December 7, 1891. The union 's official journal, The Electrical Worker, was first published on January 15, 1893, and has been published ever since. At the 1899 convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the union 's name was officially changed to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The union went through lean times in its early years, then struggled through six years of schism during the 1910s, when two rival groups each claimed to be the duly elected leaders of the union. In 1919, as many employers were trying to drive unions out of the workplace through a national open shop campaign, the union agreed to form the Council on Industrial Relations, a bipartite body made up of equal numbers of management and union representatives with the power to resolve any collective bargaining disputes. That body still functions today, and has largely resolved strikes in the IBEW 's jurisdiction in the construction industry. In September 1941, the National Apprenticeship Standards for the Electrical Construction Industry, a joint effort among the IBEW, the National Electrical Contractors Association, and the Federal Committee on Apprenticeship, were established. The IBEW added additional training programs and courses as needed to keep up with new technologies, including an industrial electronics course in 1959 and an industrial nuclear power course in 1966. Today, the IBEW conducts apprenticeship programs for electricians, linemen, and VDV ( voice, data, and video ) installers ( who install low - voltage wiring such as computer networks ), in conjunction with the National Electrical Contractors Association, under the auspices of the National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee ( NJATC ), which allows apprentices to `` earn while you learn. '' In Canadian jurisdictions, the IBEW does not deliver apprenticeship training, but does conduct supplemental training for government trained apprentices and journeypersons, often at little or no cost to its members. The IBEW local 353 Toronto requires all apprentices to be registered with the JAC ( Joint Apprenticeship Council ) for a number of safety courses, pre-apprenticeship training, pre-trade school courses, supplementary training, and pre-exam courses. The IBEW 's membership peaked in 1972 at approximately 1 million members. The membership numbers were in a slow decline throughout the rest of the 1970s and the 1980s, but have since stabilized. One major loss of membership for the IBEW came about because of the court - ordered breakup at the end of 1982 of AT&T, where the IBEW was heavily organized among both telephone workers and in AT&T 's manufacturing facilities. Membership as of 2013 stands at about 750,000, according to their official website. Contents 1 List of International Presidents 2 List of IBEW Conventions 3 External links 3.1 Archives List of International Presidents IBEW obligation at Local 405 hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Henry Miller ( 1891 -- 1893 ) Queren Jansen ( 1893 -- 1894 ) H.W. Sherman ( 1894 -- 1897 ) J.H. Maloney ( 1897 -- 1899 ) Thomas Wheeler ( 1899 -- 1901 ) W.A. Jackson ( 1901 -- 1903 ) Frank Joseph McNulty ( 1903 -- 1919 ) -- first full - time, paid president of the union ; elected at Salt Lake City Conference in 1903, retired at New Orleans Conference in 1919 James Patrick Noonan ( acting president, 1917, president 1919 -- 1929 ) -- died in office Henry H. Broach ( 1929 -- 1933 ) Daniel ( Dan ) W. Tracy ( 1933 -- 1940 ) Edward J. Brown ( 1940 -- 1947 ) Daniel ( Dan ) W. Tracy ( 1947 -- 1954 ) J. Scott Milne ( 1954 -- 1955 ) Gordon M. Freeman ( 1955 -- 1968 ) Charles H. Pillard ( 1968 -- 1986 ) John Joseph ( Jack ) Barry ( 1986 -- 2001 ) Edwin D. ( Ed ) Hill ( 2001 -- 2015 ) Lonnie R. Stephenson ( 2015 -- present ) List of IBEW Conventions # Location Date St. Louis, Missouri November 1891 Chicago, Illinois November 1892 Cleveland, Ohio November 1893 Washington D.C. November 1895 Detroit, Michigan November 1897 6 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania October 1899 7 St. Louis, Missouri October 1901 8 Salk Lake City, Utah September 1903 9 Louisville, Kentucky September 1905 10 Chicago, Illinois Sept. / Oct. 1909 11 Rochester, New York September 1911 12 Boston, Massachusetts September 1913 13 St. Paul, Minnesota Sept. / Oct. 1915 14 Atlantic City, New Jersey September 1917 15 New Orleans, Louisiana September 1919 16 St. Louis, Missouri Sept. / Oct. 1921 17 Montreal, Quebec August 1923 18 Seattle, Washington August 1925 19 Detroit, Michigan August 1927 20 Miami, Florida September 1929 21 St. Louis, Missouri October 1941 22 San Francisco, California September 1946 23 Atlantic City, New Jersey September 1948 24 Miami, Florida October 1950 25 Chicago, Illinois Aug. / Sept. 1954 26 Cleveland, Ohio Sept. / Oct. 1958 27 Montreal, Quebec September 1962 28 St. Louis, Missouri September 1966 29 Seattle, Washington Sept. / Oct. 1970 30 Kansas City, Missouri September 1974 31 Atlantic City, New Jersey October 1978 32 Los Angeles, California September 1982 33 Toronto, Ontario September 1986 34 St. Louis, Missouri October 1991 35 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 1996 36 San Francisco, California September 2001 37 Cleveland, Ohio September 2006 38 Vancouver, British Columbia September 2011 39 St. Louis, Missouri September 2016 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Organized labour portal IBEW.org Archives International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 77 ( Seattle, Wash. ) Records, 1905 - 2003. 14 cubic feet. At the Labor Archives of Washington State, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. Henry Andes Papers. 2003. 03 cu. ft. ( 1 folder ) International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Canada -- Canadian Labour Unions -- Web Archive created by the University of Toronto Libraries Canadian Labour Congress Provincial federations Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest / Nunavut Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon National affiliates ACTRA BCTF CAUT CFNU COPE CPAA CUPE CUPW ETFO NUPGE OECTA OSSTF PIPSC PSAC Unifor International affiliates AFM ALPA ATU AWIU BAC BCTGM Boilermakers CWA GMP IAFF IAM IATSE IBEW Teamsters Canada IFPTE ILA ILWU IPP IUOE IUPAT OPCMIA SEIU SIU SMWIA UA UAW UBCJA UFCW UMW UNITE HERE USW UTU Presidents Claude Jodoin ( 1956 -- 1966 ) Donald MacDonald ( 1967 -- 1974 ) Joe Morris ( 1974 -- 1978 ) Dennis McDermott ( 1978 -- 1986 ) Shirley Carr ( 1986 -- 1992 ) Bob White ( 1992 -- 1999 ) Ken Georgetti ( 1999 -- 2014 ) Hassan Yussuff ( 2014 -- present ) See also Canadian Congress of Labour International Labor Communications Association One Big Union Trades and Labour Congress Workers ' Unity League ^ Jump up to : http://www.ibew.org/Who-We-Are Jump up ^ http://www.ibew.org/articles/15ElectricalWorker/EW1507/LonnieR.Stephenson.0715.html ^ Jump up to : http://www.ibewcanada.ca/ ^ Jump up to : http://www.ibew.org/articles/09ElectricalWorker/EW0609/01.0609.html ^ Jump up to : http://www.ibew.org/articles/12ElectricalWorker/EW1203/04.0312.html ^ Jump up to : http://www.ibew.org/articles/02journal/0210/p4.Guam.htm Jump up ^ Palladino, Grace ( 1991 ). Dreams of Dignity, Workers of Vision. Washington D.C. : International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Jump up ^ `` Hazards of the Electrical Occupation ''. Electrical Review and Western Electrician. 54 ( 3 ) : 122. Jump up ^ National Joint Apprenticeship and Training committee for the Electrical Industry. Student Orientation Workbook. Upper Marlboro, MD : NJATC, 2005. Book. 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Question: who was the first president of the nbew
Answer: Henry Miller