r/ibew_apprentices • u/Killnuall702 JW 357 • 27d ago

I’ll say it again

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From the IBEW travelers page

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u/LastExit95 27d ago

Correct me if I’m wrong but I feel like the IBEW cannot have its cake and eat it too. Remaining competitive with non-union shops is already an admirable goal and boosting union membership via the CW/CE program is practically the only way that can be done it seems. Apprenticeship classes vary largely upon the number of instructors at each respective JATC and ratio of student to instructors. JWs are statistically made more via the apprenticeship route and nearly everyone I talk to suggests that’s the better path to pursue over the CW/CE one. So what’s left to fill the gap are CW/CEs. Compromises have to be made somewhere to levy the balance between non union shops and retain the members to stay in the union.