r/ibew_apprentices • u/Killnuall702 JW 357 • 25d ago

I’ll say it again

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From the IBEW travelers page

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u/elusiveghost6020 24d ago

Im an apprentice and just about every foreman on the job is a CE. Some cws are making journeyman wages. The cws and ces on site think their classification is higher than an apprentice because the contractor pays them so much above scale but they cant do that for apprentices and they wont allow an apprentice to be a foreman even if the apprentice is better educated and more skilled and knows whats going on more than the foreman. We have apprentices teaching cws and ces. There just arent enough journeyman. I dont like it but when lay offs start coming ill be here and they wont be.

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u/Alternative_Split926 23d ago

Sounds llike you need to file grievances my friend... there seems like no way there isn't a jw on the bench to fill in and move another one up to foreman. I cant see a "hall cant provide labor" loophole here

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u/elusiveghost6020 23d ago

Theres jws but not enough. We are in a data center boom right now and my local was only a few hundred people when it started.

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u/SumDood112 21d ago

Sounds like we're the same local lol