Patrick Keenan

If you’re already working as an electrician, you don’t have to start over. You don’t sit through another five-year apprenticeship, and you don’t take a first-year’s pay to learn things you already know. Experienced electricians can come into the IBEW as journeymen, a route the trade calls “organizing in.” The catch, and it’s the thing […]

IBEW Local 11 is the Los Angeles local, one of the largest in the country, and for most people the way in is the inside wireman apprenticeship. It’s a five-year, earn-while-you-learn program run through the local’s training arm, and it turns people with no trade experience into journeyman electricians on some of the biggest jobs