Boilermaker Local 8888

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers is a diverse union representing workers throughout the United States and Canada. Our members are employed in heavy industry, shipbuilding, manufacturing, railroads, cement, mining, and related industries. We construct and repair electric power plants, refineries, pulp and paper mills, and steel mills. We build naval ships and commercial tankers, repair locomotives, make cement, and mine coal, gypsum, and talc. We forge tools for industry and make consumer goods.

IT’S NO SURPRISE that Local 83 dispatcher Tatum Keister turned to the trades for her livelihood when she indentured in 2003.

Take Action

Verizon workers are taking a stand to make sure the needs of working families are met, instead of standing by as a handful of individuals get richer and richer. They’re fighting to stop the company from sending jobs overseas and to get Verizon to end its continued intimidation of working people at Verizon Wireless who are trying to create a better future for themselves and their families.

Recent News

Organizing means bringing together individual working men and women to magnify our strength and our say, concentrated into one unified, amplified voice with enough power to effectively challenge even the goliaths in politics, industries, workplaces and boardrooms.

It’s the very definition of what and who we are: a union, a uniting force for what’s right, fair and good. In our union, organizing is carried out in a variety of ways.

Vestibulum ac diam sit amet quam vehicula elementum sed sit amet dui. Curabitur non nulla sit amet nisl tempus convallis quis ac lectus. Vivamus magna justo, lacinia eget consectetur sed, convallis at tellus. Quisque velit nisi, pretium ut lacinia in, elementum id enim. Curabitur arcu erat, accumsan id imperdiet et, porttitor at sem. Proin eget tortor risus. Curabitur non nulla sit amet nisl tempus convallis quis ac lectus. Vivamus magna justo, lacinia eget consectetur sed, convallis at tellus. Nulla quis lorem ut libero malesuada feugiat.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.— Samuel Gompers