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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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pennlive.com - Several businesses and nonprofits have opened or will soon open medical-related facilities across southcentral Pennsylvania.
northcentralpa.com - PA PUC voted 4-0 to seek comment on a plan curtailing data centers and other large new power loads before other customers when the grid is under strain.
wgal.com - House Democrats and the House Energy Committee unveil a three-pronged "generation, efficiency, and demand response" plan to address grid reliability risks from AI data center power demand, following a PUC report warning failures could be six times worse than current standards.
wnep.com - The Welby Court project will transform a vacant Scranton lot into two six-unit affordable housing buildings, aimed at easing the growing gap between local incomes and housing costs in Lackawanna County.
fastcompany.com - Startup Firma Power uses software to assemble portfolios of wind, solar and battery projects, helping data centers get online with clean power faster and cheaper than new gas plants.