IBEW 226

10/15/2026

The tickets are free. You just need to pick them up at the Hall.

10/13/2026

10/13/2026

This month, we stand with the fighters, honor the survivors, remember those we've lost, and support the families impacted by breast cancer.
Thanks to the incredible support of our members we're getting closer to our goal. We still have a limited number of our Breast Cancer Awareness coins available. Once they're all gone, IBEW Local 226 will donate $5,000 to breast cancer research.

If you haven't picked up your coin yet, now is the time. Every coin helps us move one step closer to making a difference in the fight against breast cancer.

10/09/2026

Your boss is coming man. Put the authorization card away and stop blinking. Now act really upset that I’m here.

10/09/2026

Today was one of those moments that reminds us why giving back matters. For years, these incredible athletes with the Kansas Special Olympics have been wearing the same old stained t-shirts. Thanks to the generosity of our local, we were honored to help provide brand new jerseys for the team.

The excitement, smiles, and pure joy on the athletes' faces when they revealed the jerseys is what it's all about. Seeing how much this meant to them was something that reminds what this is all about. We are proud to support this amazing community and look forward to continuing to be a part of their journey for many years to come.

As a special surprise, they even presented us with a gift of their own!

10/07/2026

Imagine spending your days advocating for working people and advocating to business owners, developers, and contractors about why union labor makes projects successful. Talking about skilled workers. Quality craftsmanship, safety, training, accountability and the value of having a workforce that is invested in doing the job right.

Then turning around and walking onto job sites, meeting people you’ve never met, starting conversations, listening to their stories, hearing about their struggles, their families, their hopes, and the things they wish they could change about their lives. Also the ones that tell us to get F****d. That’s the life of a union organizer.

It isn’t about filling a call. It isn’t about getting a name on a list. And it sure as hell isn’t about how many people you can “bring in.” It’s about people.
It’s about having the passion to believe that a working man or woman deserves a fair wage, better working conditions, good benefits, and a retirement they can actually look forward to.

It’s about talking to someone who may have spent their entire career believing they had no other options and showing them that maybe there is a better path. Sometimes after spending your day fighting for working people, you hear people who know nothing about organized labor call us every name under the sun because they have been taught we are no good. Guess what we are right back talking to those individuals and most of the time it ends up in a one on one conversation after work with them telling us how bad they are getting screwed where they are at. What a world.

Not everyone sees the conversations. They don’t see the time away from your family. They don’t see the hours spent building relationships, educating people, answering questions, defending the value of organized labor, or fighting to create opportunities for working families. They don’t see the moments when someone tells you that joining the union changed their life.

That’s the part they don’t understand. A union organizer doesn’t wake up every morning thinking about how many people they can recruit.
They wake up thinking about how they can make the labor movement stronger, how they can help create good jobs, how they can help businesses succeed with skilled union labor, and how many working families they might be able to help along the way. Organized labor was never supposed to be about just one person,It’s about all of us.

In solidarity,

Your local neighborhood organizer
Cooper Melvin
Lane Clark

10/07/2026

October 17th @ 7:05 P.M.

10/03/2026

This is more than just a picture of solar panels being installed. This is literally a slap in the face to the IBEW and every brother and sister who has fought to build, protect, and advance this work.

They’re posting it for everyone to see, rubbing it right in our faces as if the work we’ve fought for doesn’t matter. This is exactly why jurisdiction matters. This is exactly why solidarity matters. And this is exactly why we have to be willing to stand up and defend our work.

Stand your F****** ground brothers and sisters.