The I.B.E.W is a union that has about 750,000 workers and retirees in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Panama, Guam and several Caribbean island nations. It was founded in 1890 St. Louis, Missouri. About 1891 after every one was showing enough interest after the convention they had the IBEW, then known as National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (NBEW ) was officially formed. On January 15, 1893 they changed the name from NBEW TO IBEW. The union went through some bad times in the early years they struggled about six years of schism in the 1910s. Although their ups and down they were able to succeed. Henry Miller was an electrical worker who became the first grand president of IBEW. Year’s when buy and on September 1941
