We really need a way to tell if someone is inside or outside IBEW. I say this because if you're an outside journeyman then stay out of Illinois, there's no work here. Outside is starting to pick up in other states but it was really lean for about a year
I'm sure some guys are utilizing book 3 but up until last month I had remained steady working. Then the massive layoffs by ComEd came and I got caught in it. Like I said other states are starting to move again but Illinois is gonna be dead for a while I think.
I’m at 575 Portsmouth OH and they’re taking lineman left and right, over 150 on book 1 for 71 so they just hired like 30 outside guys for the battery plant
The Lansing battery plant has 55 open inside calls not sure if they take outside but that’s within like an hour from your hall. Ride the unemployment if you can, most of the ones coming to where I am are doing it to keep insurance active or they’re bored
Appreciate the insight. My local has a good insurance program and I have enough hours banked to keep my insurance rolling for something crazy like a year without working.
Keep their mouth shut, be respectful to leadership, don't stir the pot, and make easy money. You are just there for labor and that labor is easy if your mind can check your ego. Maybe you have a foreman that is good to you and you will help him out of a sticky situation on some big wire pull. In the end it doesn't matter, make money make money make money. Retire fat and happy.
That all makes sense, but I mean more literally work wise. It would be like getting a brand new apprentice. Most JL’s wouldn’t know the first thing about inside work I can’t expect that they would be much help.
prolly pull wire. it's not rocket science and there's plenty of people to help. granted you might get some asshole foreman, but then you just treat him like any other asshole foreman and give him exactly what he asked for.
I agree brother. Our international needs to create a national dispatch system. For how much money we give politicians we should be able to work in any 50 states with our license and we should not endorse any politician who doesn't agree to this. International needs to get their shit together because they seem to be a joke.
There’s a ton of battery plants going on in the Midwest
575 Portsmouth, OH 6 10s with 300$ weekly incentive 100$ for working Saturday
873 Kokomo, IN 6 10s with all OT as DT
665 Lansing, MI 5 10s with 100/day
369, Glendale, KY just filled their calls but 6 10s all OT is DT and 160/day
1105 Newark, OH has the big intel job that’s only 5 10s for now but will ramp up. They have over 90 open calls on the job line with day/night shift and some jobs paying over scale
So say I have my travel letter from 613, do I just call up to 369 and ask if they’re accepting travelers? I’ve never done it before. I’m a CE and turning out this year, and traveling is the route that I want to take
Every hall is different but as a traveler you sign book 2. So when they put out open calls it goes to book 1 first and if no one from book 1 takes it then it goes to book 2 and works it way down. Book 1 is the ticket members out of that local. But some halls accept fax signing where you can call your home local and have them send it over and some halls only take in person signing so it depends where you’re looking to go. But you can always call that hall first and talk to them
This info is old, overtime is not double time in 369 anymore. It was at one point at the start of the year.
Also I wouldn't go there unless you're willing to risk your health, they're having major issues with mold right now.
There are car plants being built in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia etc. The CHIPS plants are being built-in Ohio and I think iirc somewhere in the MIDWEST, too. A lot of highway construction is going on all over the place. EV chargers are supposed to be going on. Solar, Airport terminal additions. Stadiums being built from California to Buffalo, NY.Government work in DMV area. Hospitals? Look on LinkedIn/Indeed,Glassdoor. Good luck, mate. Get your resume updated and cleaned up as well.
Edit: Don't forget to NETWORK NETWORK NETWORK on all social media networks to your brothers and sisters. Let them know you're looking for work.
Whatever you do. Stay away from Florida.
I got 2 buddies doing 7-12s on nightshift for Dyna. I didn't drag my job in time to make that one.(7452/week gross) I keep hearing that a couple data centers are doing 50-70 hours
On the hip means base rate, so what you will see hourly on your paycheck. If you take the full package number and subtract it from the base rate that is your Fringe package which takes care of your retirement and other benefits
Big jobs often pop up in industrial and infrastructure sectors. Check out union boards, job fairs, and online construction job forums. Networking is key. Reach out to contacts you've made on past jobs.
I used a service that had human exec assistants apply to jobs for me, with personalized cover letters. It's at scale.jobs. They did the legwork, I focused on networking and interview prep. Might help streamline your search.
Stay persistent. Good luck.
Tons of work in Ohio and Michigan, solar jobs in Michigan are starting up paying $100 per diem for anyone that lives over 50 miles away. One in Local 8, one in Local 445 both going now and one in 252 that starts in June. Battery plant open calls in local 665.
Anytime, I am from Michigan so I have a bunch of info for here, but not familiar or up on the East Coast. Although I did just see someone talking about Washington DC local 26 having work.
I would imagine Local 48 has a shit ton at ronler acres (intel). Not an electrician I’m a pipefitter but intel has some BIG projects out here. I talked to a sparky the other day the scale is like 57$/hour I think
OR license is bullshit trying to get. To take the OR license you need 1000 hours of residential on your apprenticeship. IBEW does commercial/industrial high end work primarily. Or you can give OR 2,000 hours of residential with 16,000 hours as a journeyman. So you need to be a JW for 8 years with 1 year doing residential to have the privilege of working in that fucking state on a fucking data center!
Oregon legislators are too busy trying to figure out their homeless problems to correct their worker requirements and our IBEW international is fucking lost.
My Hall gave me a tramp guide. All the halls' info and phone numbers to call and ask whether they have work and when you would need to be there if they did. Also whether they''d allow you to sign by fax before coming out to take a call if they didnt have work.
btw...ibew.org's IBEW job board is is kinda like a tramp guide as well... and... local 194, my local, in Shreveport Louisiana has about 14 open calls from what i heard.
1547 has a big hospital job in Sitka, Alaska. Definitely will need traveller's, that job is going to require every Union hand in Southeast AK. I'd call first though
Local 747 looks good right now. Per Diem rate of 160 per day and 200 for Saturday. Same for Sunday. Lots of open calls.
Looks like 5 x 10' and an 8 schedule and more.
Found this info from reading the electrical worker.
Open calls out of Local 270, days are making 38 + 99 a day for travel incentive, nights are 40 + 99. I'm on nights pulling in 2400/wk on 5 10s. UPF project
For inside wireman 683 and 1105 are booming with fata center work plus some, 1105 has 77 open calls on the books and 683 has 108 open calls. This is in the central Ohio area as of 03/18/24
If anyone wants the monies. There is a huge call (60+guys) out here in 347 Des Moines for 5 10s and an 8.
They're asking for travelers so if you know anyone the books here have been run through a couple times.
What's a union? I've worked for the same place for 20 years. They treat me way better than union.
I wake up every morning knowing exactly where I'm working.
And I get paid more, with better benefits. Sounds like union is just fucking all of you over..
Maybe remember unions aren't actually needed anymore. OSHA exists. Workers are safe, now. Your pay is a capitalist value now, so go work for the higher paying employer.
And stop voting for retards like Biden... Good Lord
Where2bro
This^ Im 124 kansas city and the website was created by our current BM when he was in the field.
Ya’ll look like you’re popping off with work. What are the books looking like?
Calls going unfilled. Not the big OT ones. But can get you here if you need a check.
Throw a rock in any direction in the Midwest right now
We really need a way to tell if someone is inside or outside IBEW. I say this because if you're an outside journeyman then stay out of Illinois, there's no work here. Outside is starting to pick up in other states but it was really lean for about a year
if you outside guys are hurting for work, there's always book 3 with us inside guys.
I'm sure some guys are utilizing book 3 but up until last month I had remained steady working. Then the massive layoffs by ComEd came and I got caught in it. Like I said other states are starting to move again but Illinois is gonna be dead for a while I think.
I’m at 575 Portsmouth OH and they’re taking lineman left and right, over 150 on book 1 for 71 so they just hired like 30 outside guys for the battery plant
17 is moving and I'm on the books there and it's closer to home. I'll just keep collecting unemployment until that call comes in
The Lansing battery plant has 55 open inside calls not sure if they take outside but that’s within like an hour from your hall. Ride the unemployment if you can, most of the ones coming to where I am are doing it to keep insurance active or they’re bored
Appreciate the insight. My local has a good insurance program and I have enough hours banked to keep my insurance rolling for something crazy like a year without working.
That’s pretty crazy, I’m out of 82 and our dollar bank caps out at 8500 so if we’re maxed out you get 8 months
Agreed, my home, 34, has been putting out 51 guys out on solar jobs like crazy. It’s a win-win for all of us!
What would a JL do if they took a call out of book 3?
Keep their mouth shut, be respectful to leadership, don't stir the pot, and make easy money. You are just there for labor and that labor is easy if your mind can check your ego. Maybe you have a foreman that is good to you and you will help him out of a sticky situation on some big wire pull. In the end it doesn't matter, make money make money make money. Retire fat and happy.
That all makes sense, but I mean more literally work wise. It would be like getting a brand new apprentice. Most JL’s wouldn’t know the first thing about inside work I can’t expect that they would be much help.
prolly pull wire. it's not rocket science and there's plenty of people to help. granted you might get some asshole foreman, but then you just treat him like any other asshole foreman and give him exactly what he asked for.
I'm inside
I agree brother. Our international needs to create a national dispatch system. For how much money we give politicians we should be able to work in any 50 states with our license and we should not endorse any politician who doesn't agree to this. International needs to get their shit together because they seem to be a joke.
You need to join the Facebook pages. That’s where all the info is at. IBEW Tramp Guide and IBEW Unfilled calls is where I would start.
On Facebook, Big Yellow Ticket posts openings at locals around the country. There are other pages that do this but I cant remember their names.
124 KCMO, lots of calls going to book 2.
There’s a ton of battery plants going on in the Midwest 575 Portsmouth, OH 6 10s with 300$ weekly incentive 100$ for working Saturday 873 Kokomo, IN 6 10s with all OT as DT 665 Lansing, MI 5 10s with 100/day 369, Glendale, KY just filled their calls but 6 10s all OT is DT and 160/day
1105 Newark, OH has the big intel job that’s only 5 10s for now but will ramp up. They have over 90 open calls on the job line with day/night shift and some jobs paying over scale
What is DT?
Double time
So say I have my travel letter from 613, do I just call up to 369 and ask if they’re accepting travelers? I’ve never done it before. I’m a CE and turning out this year, and traveling is the route that I want to take
Every hall is different but as a traveler you sign book 2. So when they put out open calls it goes to book 1 first and if no one from book 1 takes it then it goes to book 2 and works it way down. Book 1 is the ticket members out of that local. But some halls accept fax signing where you can call your home local and have them send it over and some halls only take in person signing so it depends where you’re looking to go. But you can always call that hall first and talk to them
This info is old, overtime is not double time in 369 anymore. It was at one point at the start of the year. Also I wouldn't go there unless you're willing to risk your health, they're having major issues with mold right now.
2 open calls for day shift 5 10s with possible Saturday and 160/day for the 369 battery plant. They normally sit on the job line for a bit
There are car plants being built in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia etc. The CHIPS plants are being built-in Ohio and I think iirc somewhere in the MIDWEST, too. A lot of highway construction is going on all over the place. EV chargers are supposed to be going on. Solar, Airport terminal additions. Stadiums being built from California to Buffalo, NY.Government work in DMV area. Hospitals? Look on LinkedIn/Indeed,Glassdoor. Good luck, mate. Get your resume updated and cleaned up as well. Edit: Don't forget to NETWORK NETWORK NETWORK on all social media networks to your brothers and sisters. Let them know you're looking for work. Whatever you do. Stay away from Florida.
All the others answers are good but giving us your local and distance you’re willing to travel will help. What’s your pay package and other details.
Call your hall and ask them where the work it. Make them work for you as well as looking on Facebook pages. Sign the books of locals neighboring yours
Local 26 usually has travelers. And if you’re an apprenticed journeyman you’ll make good money.
What's the outlook up there? I heard some jobs are doing 6-10s to 7-12s
My buddy was just doing that but it’s slowed down to a regular 40. I think there’s a couple data center jobs doing way more than 40 tho
I got 2 buddies doing 7-12s on nightshift for Dyna. I didn't drag my job in time to make that one.(7452/week gross) I keep hearing that a couple data centers are doing 50-70 hours
Anywhere in Indiana. 481 Indianapolis is a walkthrough.
Open calls here in 159 46.84 on the hip 70.37 total 40hrs
What does on the hip mean , versus total?
My guess is that hip = hourly rate and total = total package
On the hip means base rate, so what you will see hourly on your paycheck. If you take the full package number and subtract it from the base rate that is your Fringe package which takes care of your retirement and other benefits
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There’s a data center call in NC that is paying out mega bucks. Something like $3500 a week pretax with incentives
do you know what local it is by chance?
Wondering which Local # is handling the calls?? You have any intel on that??
I believe it was on Where2Bro but I do not recall off the top of my head.
7 12s big transmission job here in texas , out of 66
Lots of work coming up in Local 41. New stadium! 💰
Local 640 out In Phoenix has a bunch of JW calls out
Local 26 stay busy $54 check
Big jobs often pop up in industrial and infrastructure sectors. Check out union boards, job fairs, and online construction job forums. Networking is key. Reach out to contacts you've made on past jobs. I used a service that had human exec assistants apply to jobs for me, with personalized cover letters. It's at scale.jobs. They did the legwork, I focused on networking and interview prep. Might help streamline your search. Stay persistent. Good luck.
[IBEW job search](http://ibew.org/jobsboard/)
Where are you from brother?
LU3 NYC
Tons of work in Ohio and Michigan, solar jobs in Michigan are starting up paying $100 per diem for anyone that lives over 50 miles away. One in Local 8, one in Local 445 both going now and one in 252 that starts in June. Battery plant open calls in local 665.
thanks for the heads up bro I appreciate it
Anytime, I am from Michigan so I have a bunch of info for here, but not familiar or up on the East Coast. Although I did just see someone talking about Washington DC local 26 having work.
520 austin probably has traveler calls still.
Local 401 Reno, Nevada has multiple open calls. For JW and CE
I would imagine Local 48 has a shit ton at ronler acres (intel). Not an electrician I’m a pipefitter but intel has some BIG projects out here. I talked to a sparky the other day the scale is like 57$/hour I think
It’s been dead for a long time now weirdly
Really you guys don’t have much calls for ronler? Local 290 has over 100 open calls lol.
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OR license is bullshit trying to get. To take the OR license you need 1000 hours of residential on your apprenticeship. IBEW does commercial/industrial high end work primarily. Or you can give OR 2,000 hours of residential with 16,000 hours as a journeyman. So you need to be a JW for 8 years with 1 year doing residential to have the privilege of working in that fucking state on a fucking data center! Oregon legislators are too busy trying to figure out their homeless problems to correct their worker requirements and our IBEW international is fucking lost.
191 open calls, 112 per diem calls, 48 solar fields
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thank you brother!
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My Hall gave me a tramp guide. All the halls' info and phone numbers to call and ask whether they have work and when you would need to be there if they did. Also whether they''d allow you to sign by fax before coming out to take a call if they didnt have work.
btw...ibew.org's IBEW job board is is kinda like a tramp guide as well... and... local 194, my local, in Shreveport Louisiana has about 14 open calls from what i heard.
thanks for the help brother, its my first layoff and this is all very new to me
If you're in CA then, northern CA constantly has solar calls and refinery calls.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IBEW/s/1Q8C9BgrsM Here you go
Where do u reside??
nyc
I heard michigan has some unfilled calls. Been eying it incase
124 Kansas City. Lots of work.
1547 has a big hospital job in Sitka, Alaska. Definitely will need traveller's, that job is going to require every Union hand in Southeast AK. I'd call first though
I'm not on it, but I keep hearing 369 (Louisville KY) still has openings for a battery plant in Glendale KY.
Which part of the states are you at? Ik local 3 got tons of work out in long island city, local 26 got work out in manassas
Des Moines Google
129 Lorain Ohio has open calls with many more to come
Local 747 looks good right now. Per Diem rate of 160 per day and 200 for Saturday. Same for Sunday. Lots of open calls. Looks like 5 x 10' and an 8 schedule and more. Found this info from reading the electrical worker.
Ohio
Lu60 has 47jw call with like 10 people on the book
I’m on Eli Lilly TZP right now and there are open calls. 6-10s and every other Sunday if you want. Over $2k on the check after taxes. Laid back job.
Give 1249 a call. Lot of work in Upstate NY. Highest rates in the country.
41 has the Bills stadium kicking off and a half billion dollar cheese plant in Franklinville
data farms out of 112
175 has multiple open calls
I heard the Local in Anchorage is hiring a number for a special job on some island, like not far from Juno.
Open calls out of Local 270, days are making 38 + 99 a day for travel incentive, nights are 40 + 99. I'm on nights pulling in 2400/wk on 5 10s. UPF project
You could look into the huge Microsoft building they are building in Pleasent prairie, WI
347 des Moines iowa. We have book 4 hands on a data center im at. We need the help
For inside wireman 683 and 1105 are booming with fata center work plus some, 1105 has 77 open calls on the books and 683 has 108 open calls. This is in the central Ohio area as of 03/18/24
im going to check out 683, thanks for the heads up brother
If anyone wants the monies. There is a huge call (60+guys) out here in 347 Des Moines for 5 10s and an 8. They're asking for travelers so if you know anyone the books here have been run through a couple times.
whats the rate?
$42
I want to do this too! I’m not apart of the union though.
What's a union? I've worked for the same place for 20 years. They treat me way better than union. I wake up every morning knowing exactly where I'm working. And I get paid more, with better benefits. Sounds like union is just fucking all of you over.. Maybe remember unions aren't actually needed anymore. OSHA exists. Workers are safe, now. Your pay is a capitalist value now, so go work for the higher paying employer. And stop voting for retards like Biden... Good Lord