Why Join the IBEW?

IBEW Local 309 can offer a better quality of life for you and your family. From the highest quality training and health benefits, Local 309 offers you new opportunities and a secure plan for your future.

The objectives of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are:

• To promote reasonable methods of work
  
  
• To cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry
  
  
• To settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible)
  
  
• To assist each other in sickness or distress
  
  
• To secure employment
  
  
• To secure adequate pay for our work
  
  
• To seek a higher & higher standard of living
  
  
• To seek security for the individual
  
  
• To organize workers in the electrical industry in Illinois
  
  
• To elevate the morale and the intellectual and social conditions of our members, their families and dependents in the interest of a higher standard of citizenship

Journeyman Training

The Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee offers Journeyman training classes. These classes include Code, Motor Control, Welding, Fire Alarm, Grounding, Fiber Optics, High Voltage Splicing and Financial Planning among others. Classes are held at our state-of-the-art training facility.

How to Join

Visit our offices at:

2000A Mall Street
Collinsville, Illinois 62234

For inside, Communications Apprentice

Southwestern Illinois JATC
2000B Mall Street
Collinsville, Illinois 62234
618-343-1954

For Outside (lineman) apprenticeship www.albat.org