About Us

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) represents approximately 750,000 members who work in a wide variety of fields, including utilities, construction, telecommunications, broadcasting, manufacturing, railroads and government.

IBEW Local 229 represents the best trained, most productive and most safety conscious electrical workers in York & Adams counties Pennsylvania. We are your neighbors, friends, teammates, church members… we are the very fabric of south central Pennsylvania. We are proud of our craftsmanship, our training, our expertise, our professionalism and our union. We are proud to be part of our communities and provide the highest standard of electrical work to our customers.

Local 229 was formed in 1918 by a handful of local electrical workers and has grown to over 500 members today who all live and work in York & Adams counties.

Our partner contractors are members of the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) which represents the unionized electrical contractors. NECA workers on your job site mean experience, excellence, reliability, and the best safety records in the industry.

The long-standing alliance between IBEW and NECA ensures an adequate supply of well trained, highly skilled, and productive electricians to meet the needs of the electrical construction industry.

The IBEW and NECA joined together in the 1940’s to create the National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee, the NJATC. Since its creation, the NJATC has developed into what is perhaps the largest apprenticeship and training program of its kind. The NJATC apprenticeship is the premier electrical apprenticeship program in North America!

Through the NJATC, we attract the most qualified electrical apprentices in the country.

Under this rigorous, college accredited program, apprentices must complete five years of classroom and on-the-job training before they become journeymen. Local 229 apprentices complete over 1,000 hours of classroom training and 10,000 hours of on-the-job training before becoming journeyman wireman. Local 229 also has a state of the art certified BICSI lab on site for training our Voice-Data-Video workers.

Safety is of the highest priority for our workers…our electricians are trained in OSHA 10, OSHA 30, NFP 70E, first aid, CPR, confined space and many other safety related practices. Local 229 will get your project done on time and on budget with the highest level of expertise in the industry at a competitive price!! This standardized training program ensures that you can be confident that every Local 229 journeyman electrician employed by our partner contractors will have the same high level of skill, expertise and professionalism. Our referral process gives us the ability to have highly skilled electricians on your project within hours!

If you have an electrical project… whether it is a small commercial job, plant maintenance, plant expansion, emergency needs, or a brand new multi million dollar construction project… you want value…that’s us!

Please click on “Signatory Contractors” section of this site to get contact information or contact us at 717-843-8368 and we can direct you to the contractors best suited for your needs.