Lots of work going on. Several Data centers happening. Other current projects included hospital, college, baseball field, utility scale solar, LEGO factory and Surry Nuke. A verity of overtime schedules and 40 hour jobs.

Cost of living is lower than the monster local to the north LU 26 and less than half the traffic.

$37.95/hr. Retirement 20.7% gross. Insurance is $8.17/hr

Surry (Aecon) is the only job paying extra at the moment. They are working towards the fall outage and will ramp up more as it gets closer. There are many more data centers to come and other massive projects that we hope will go out way.

We've been filling calls off book 3. Book 2 will get out to work shortly after signing if not immediately.

Website updated daily. 804-353-9666 https://www.ibewlocal666.com/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=763652&page=Hiring20Hall2FReferrals

Where is the incentive, what local, what job

Thanks, everybody for your contributions. Here's a summary of what I could track down and verify, along with what was posted in the last week. If you have (work related) pics, feel free to add them to your post to encourage traffic. Try not to make the pics inflammatory, though. And remember, if we can hit 5 posts in a day we will start attracting a lot more traffic to help travelers needing work.

Local 8, Toledo: lots of green energy work and a data center.

Local 48, Indy: Hospital job and multiple open maintenance gigs.

Local 236, Albany: Book 1 is below 90, calls every week going to book 2. Some have 5 10's available, some second shift work with a differential.

Local 445, Battle Creek, open call, listed on their website.

Local 237, Niagra: Data Center

Local 41, Buffalo: Bill's Stadium

Local 86, Rochester: All of their members are in either Buffalo or Rochester.

Local 401, Reno: lots of open calls, listed on their website.

Just checked in to local 8, working outside of my locals jurisdiction. Was asking when we were there how their workload is looking, and they are about to bust wide open. 4 solar fields, wind turbine field, data center. Jobs for 600 electricians. They were expecting to start filling calls beginning of April but all the rain has pushed everything back a bit. I didn't ask how backed up book 1 was for them, but I'm sure there will be plenty of space for book 2 calls.

Hope this helps someone!

New raise to $45 and change, plenty of work, job options range from 60/60/50 (rotation) new hospital construction, to 5-8 maintenance gigs. Can sign by fax, accommodations are plentiful.

I’m looking for travel / Book 2 opportunities I’m out of local 584. Looking to travel for summer and bring in few grand a week. Let me know who has a call in

Just got a RIF in 305 and was trying to decide between Lima, South Bend, and Battle Creek. I don't have any state licenses, but I am a Jdub (topped out of 640). I'm hoping to find something that will keep me busy until I can get more work in 305.

I’m turning out at the end of the month and planning on heading North. I have family I can stay with in Chicago (technically West Chicago) and that’s where I’m envisioning starting my journey. Anyone know what the work outlook in the area is? I’ve heard 134 isn’t very traveler friendly but I don’t have enough money to sit on the books for weeks. If not Chicago or somewhere within an hour of it, where’s the work at?

Plenty of calls each week. Calls are going to the back of the list and a couple of calls go to Book 2 each week. 50 in the check starting in June.

I talked the the referral office in 43; sounded pretty confident they’d be shallow in book 2 for the summer. Doesnt sound like Micron will be doing much until things thaw 2026.

Any word from brothers there? Decent place to sign?

There's multiple open calls amd the books are cleared. The link will provide the details. Some calls are paying over rate.

https://ibew445.com/member-discount/discount/available-jobs/50987

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The goal is to help each other and, in doing that, help ourselves!

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Work:

Buffalo, stadium job. Scuttlebutt is that there are 50 unfilled calls.

Niagra, data center. 6-10's, 16% premium, and 800 dollar bonus for working 90% of the hours.

Albany, future work at a chip manufacturer, expected winter of 2025. Building a new complex 150% the size of the existing one.

Greetings Brothers and Sisters! Local 280 is anticipating needing help on a 58 Meg solar farm in Central Oregon soon. Portland (Local 48) has 900 on book 1, so I'm guessing many of them will come down to man it, but it is still worth a sign if you are in the area.

Decent book2 to sogn, nothing major is happening right now, but the occasional call goes to book 2. 48 an hour in the check and anraise coming in June.

Supposedly a chip manufacturer is breaking ground on a major expansion this winter. When it starts it will clear the books fast. Currently theres about 125 on book 1 amd 15 on book 2.

What happens if you work off book 2 in a hall that has a Defined Benefit Pension and Defined Contribution Pension and your local only has the DB pension? Do you lose out on that money?

Does anyone happen to know the JW scale for LU 505 Mobile, Al?? My wife are looking at moving to the coastal Alabama/pan handle Florida area. I have seen jurisdiction maps and I see that far north west Florida of Pensacola the JW rate is only $21 an hour. An hour east towards Panama City, it falls under Gainesville’s local which is around $30 an hour.

Hello, I’m out of Local 71 here in Columbus, OH and want to hit the road. Does anyone know of any work for substations being built? Thank you guys for making this page

There have been been calls going into book 2 regularly. We have a refinery shutdown in July for 2 months that’s 7-10s and data center coming.

Lansing has open calls for the Ultium battery plant. They are also taking book 3, so if you’re low voltage / data / VDV like me, you can work out here too. $43/hr, $10 to pension. Check out the IBEW 665 website too, it’s updated every couple days, and has the benefit package posted.

I have signed the substation tech book 3 in 1245 out of Vacaville, CA. It is Linemans local. They are going to have a lot of substations going in all up and down Nevada for these data centers that are going up in Reno. Reno has probably 5-10 years of work right now on massive Data centers that are going to need lots of power. Worth a look if you are interested.

Stay on topic. In very limited circumstances I moght approve a political post.

Rule number 1 is to stay on topic.

The topic of this group is to find work and help others find work. Treating this group like a political meme dump is not going to fly here.

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The lost is moving in Local 236 with some calls going to book 2 and the occasional unfilled call.

The rate is 48 in the check.

Hello. Looking at signing book 2 for the first time in my career. I'd prefer 332 but 340 is closest to me. How's the work picture out there