The IBEW is made up of working men and women in the electrical industry committed to bettering themselves and the industry. But neither the IBEW nor the electrical industry is made better unless all who labor in the industry are secure in their employment, receive a fair wage, have training programs, pension plans, and dental and medical plans for themselves and their families. For over a hundred years the IBEW has been about offering these things to electricians who have been wrongfully denied them. All electrical workers deserve the IBEW's standard of living, the highest in the country.