Local 111 Journeyman Wireman Expectations
This is where a Local 111 Journeyman Wireman is expected to have sworn in as an IBEW member.
What is a unit (union) meeting?
This is what you always carry with you while traveling, and you have to keep it current.
What is your ticket?
This is the first step in taking a Local 111 call.
What is signing the books online. (and in person if it's your first time).
This part of the Code of Excellence is what is expected for 8 hours of pay.
What is 8 hours of work?
These are the skills a Local 111 Journeyman Wireman should have if a medical emergency should arise.
What are CPR and First Aid skills?
This is when a member shows you their ticket and then expects you to show your current ticket in return.
What is bumping tickets?
This is the time you call dispatch when taking a call off the books.
When is after 4pm?
This person never worked for an IBEW contractor, and was a lifelong organizer as well as our first National President.
Who is Henry Miller?
This is considered basic circuitry knowledge for a Journeyman Wireman.
What is 3-way switching and motor control wiring?
This is the best way to see what work status of other locals you may want to travel to.
What is calling the local ahead of time?
These classifications are book 2 hands.
What are CWs, CEs, and traveling hands from other locals?
This phrase means that we are responsible for not only our safety, but also our fellow union members safety.
What is "I am my brother's keeper"?
These are the things that a Journeyman Wireman should be left with to be able to finish his assigned task.
What are proper Tools, Information, and Materials? (Bonus: Expectations?)
You never do this if any local members have objections or would take the position themselves.
What is take a foreman position?
This is where you go to find the open job calls for 111.
What is the IBEW 111 website under dispatch and then job calls?
This was the year that local 111 was formed.
What is 1901?
This is what classification you hold in the IBEW unless the Examining Board changes it.
What is Journeyman Wireman classification?
This is what you do if the company you are working as a traveler for lays off any local hands before you.
This is because different locals apply the book system slightly different from one another.
Why does every local take book calls differently?
This is because we work for these people (and we remain professional, to represent the IBEW and local 111 accordingly.)
Why do we care about the customers?
This is the only way that a Journeyman Wireman can look for work in the IBEW.
What is the book system?
You should never do this while in another local, the local members set the pace of work.
What is outworking or out producing the local members?
First time book signers have to do this.
What is sign the books in person and online?
He was our first Secretary Treasurer, and he was also an Inside Wireman.
Who is James T. Kelly?