The Objects of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are:

• To organize all workers in the entire electrical industry in the United States and Canada, including all those in public utilities and electrical manufacturing, intro local unions
• To promote reasonable methods of work,
• To cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry,
• To settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible)
• To assist each other in sickness or distress,
• To secure employment,
• To reduce the hours of daily labor,
• To secure adequate pay for our work,
• To seek a higher and higher standard of living,
• To seek security for the individual,
• And by legal and proper means to elevate the moral, intellectual, and social conditions of our members, their families and dependents, in the interest of a higher standard of citizenship.