Agreement / Wages
Current Shops
(*RES Contractors)
*Alco Electric LLC
*All City Electric
*All Wire Electric
*Americo
Angeles Electric
*ANM Electric Inc
*At Your Service Electric Inc
Ault Electric Company Inc.*Bee Dandy Electric LLC
Best Electric Inc
Birch Electric LLC
Block Electric
*Bowie Electric Service & Supply Inc.
*Boyer Electric Company*CES Electric Corp.
City Pacific Services
CK Electric Inc
Cochran Electric Inc.
Connected ElectricD W Close Co Inc.
Duane Leamer ElectricalEconomy Heating Inc
*EHS - Electric Home Service
*Electrical Services
Electric West
Electrical Power Systems LLC
Emerald City Electric Inc
Enigma Electric Company
Excel Electric & Services Inc.First Class Electric
Fletcher Electric
Fox Electric
Frahler Electric
Fredhoes General Electric
*Fuller Electric*G-Tek Inc
Haaland & Associates
Hampton Electric
Haney Electric Service Co NW
Hawthorne Electric Inc
Hecco Electrical ContractorsJohnson Electric Inc
*The Juice CompanyKeller Electric
King County Housing Authority
KI Electrical Services, Inc
*KV Electric Corp*Lanter Electric Inc
*Latitude Electric
Lifeline Electric
*Linder ElectricMadsen Electric
Main Street Electric
Major Electric Inc.
Mochi Corp dba Urban Electric
Modern Electric
Molina Delta ElectricNorth River Electric
NW ElectricOlympic Electric Company
*Opus ElectricPK Electric
Porterbilt Electric LLC
Prime Electric Inc.
*PRO Power Electric LLC
*Pyramid Electric Inc.Quinn Murray Electric
Quinton Design & Electric ContractorsRakoz Electric Inc
Raven electric LLC
Rick Bakker Quality Electric Plus
*Rimrock Electric LLCSeahurst Electric
Shamp Electrical Contractor
Slaymakers Safe & Sound Electric
S. Meyers Electric Inc
*Snohomish Electric
Snoqualmie Valley Electric LLC
South Sound Electric Inc
*Starr Electric LLC
Straits Electric
*Sun Bright Electric LLC
SY ElectricThompson Electrical Constructors
Thunderbird Electric LLCUnited Electric Construction
United Electric ContractorsValley Electric of Mt. Vernon
VECA Electric CompanyWarrior Electric
*Wyatt Electric Inc
Residential Electrical Services (RES)
RES is a lot of things. It is in large part, an advertising co-op we developed to allow our Union Residential contractors to share advertising. IBEW Local 46 pays for several yellow page and website ads plus direct mail ads that have phone numbers which are routed to an answering service. The answering service then refers those calls on a rotational basis to our Residential contractors who have signed up to participate.
However, it has many other parts to it as well. It has a business development component, which includes business and estimating classes, unit pricing manuals and paid membership to the local Master Builders Association. It has a labor supply component which consists of organizers visiting nonunion residential jobsites and having nonunion residential electricians fill out surveys that look a lot like a resume. Those surveys are then used as a list of qualified electricians for our Union contractors to draw from as work becomes available.
RES has and continues to evolve over time. We started a media panel rebate program. If a Union contractor installs a media panel in a new home, the Union rebates the contractor. The idea is that a Union contractor can market to a builder that the Union contractor can be competitive with any other nonunion contractor on price with the added bonus that the Union contractor can install this media panel at no cost to the builder. This allows the builder to up-sale other low-voltage components to the customer furthering both the builder and the Union contractors potential for additional profit centers.
Another major component to our program is our Residential Agreement. We went to work on removing all language in the Agreement that put our Union contractors at a disadvantage to their non-union counterparts. As a result, our Agreement is only four pages long. In fact, wages are merit based in our Agreement. Obviously, there are probably not many Union Agreements with merit based wages, but our thinking was with only 2% market share we were in no position to demand an expensive, complicated Agreement. Instead, we want to get market share and then negotiate improvements from a position of strength.
Parts of this program began in late 2003, but we really invested in it in 2005. At that time, IBEW Local 46 had between 2 to 5% of the residential Market Share with 49 residential workers paying into our trust funds. At the end of 2007 we had approximately 30% market share with 167 residential workers paying into our trust funds, plus we had Union contractors from adjoining jurisdictions working in our jurisdiction.
We have come along way with RES but the job is not finished. We will continue to work with our Residential unit and our contractors to figure out ways to increase market share and get a better grip on this sector of our industry.
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Habitat for Humanity - Women Build |
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The Crew At ALL CITY ELECTRIC The photo above was submitted by Patrick Looney’s company, All City Electric, a Local 46 signatory contractor since 1974. The crew, pictured left to right, are Doug Hill, Chris Long, Ted Klein, Stan Landogora, Reggie Callo, and Skip Long. |
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CES Electric Service Truck |
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Snohomish Electric Crew |
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Starr Electric |
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