The objectives of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are:

• Organize all workers in the entire electrical industry in the United States and Canada, including all those in public utilities and electrical manufacturing, into local unions.
• Promote reasonable methods of work.
• Cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry.
• Settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible).
• Assist each other in sickness or distress.
• Secure employment.
• Reduce the hours of daily labor.
• Secure adequate pay for our work.
• Seek a higher and higher standard of living.
• Seek security for the individual.
• By legal and proper means to elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions of our members, their families and dependents, in the interest of a higher standard of citizenship.