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Thomas R. Henchey, Business Manager
Our MIssion
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Local Union 229
-Mission Statement-
To organize all workers in the entire electrical industry in the United States and Canada, including all those in public and electrical manufacturing, into local unions.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 229 is York Pennsylvania’s leading labor organization in the electrical construction industry. Each day Local 22 lives up to our International Organizing Statement. Organizing is a goal that every member is empowered to do. We strive to represent the unrepresented workers and raise them to a new living standard while honing their skills to provide the very best electricians for all clients. Local Union 229 will soon celebrate our 100th Anniversary of serving the Greater York Area. Our long standing traditions will help forge the future of our dynamically changing industry. There is absolutely no doubt that the IBEW sets the industry standard for today’s electrician.
To promote reasonable methods of work.
The IBEW is the industry leader for safe and reliable work. In our contracts lie the guarantee to each and every client that they will receive the absolute best quality and production.Every IBEW Local 229 electrician lives up to the highest industry standards of production and safety. This professionalism allows our members to maintain an excellent standard of living for their families.
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CARES ACT - Coronavirus
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NECA, Local Donate $15k to Food Bank
Electrical contractors and local union members donated $15,000 to support a community food bank, demonstrating the industry's commitment to community service and helping families in need during the holiday season.
Juhasz: Administration's Vendetta Against Wind Is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices
Baltimore IBEW Local 24 fights to save offshore wind projects after Trump administration cuts $700 million in funding and issues stop-work orders. The article examines how these policies threaten thousands of union jobs at Maryland's Sparrows Point Steel offshore wind hub, eliminate clean energy supply that would power hundreds of thousands of homes, and contribute to rising electricity costs nationwide.
Introducing : Thomas Spellman, JATC instructor (EW)
Boston Local 103 JATC instructor Thomas Spellman shares his 35-year journey in the IBEW, from childhood dreams inspired by union electrician uncles, through a workplace injury at a non-union shop, telecommunications apprenticeship, work on Boston's Big Dig and at Logan Airport on 9/11, to becoming a full-time instructor training the next generation of electrical workers.
Union Rights on the Ballot (EW)
IBEW members conducted intensive get-out-the-vote efforts in New Jersey and Virginia's November 2025 elections, helping elect pro-worker governors and substantial majorities in state legislatures. The campaigns emphasized how union rights, collective bargaining, PLAs, and worker wages were directly at stake in these crucial odd-year elections.
