The objectives of the IBEW are to organize all workers in the entire electrical industry in the United States and Canada, including all those in public utilities and electrical manufacturing, into local unions, promote reasonable methods of work, cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry, settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible), assist each other in sickness or distress, secure employment, reduce the hours of daily labor, secure adequat

Kenneth W. Cooper (International President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, IBEW)