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