The objects contained in the Constitution of the I.B.E.W. are:

• To 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
• To promote reasonable methods of work
• To cultivate feelings of friendship among those of our industry
• To settle all disputes between employers and employees by arbitration (if possible)
• To assist each other in sickness or distress
• To secure employment
• To reduce the hours of daily labour
• To secure adequate pay for our work
• To seek a higher and higher standard of living
• To seek security for the individual
• And 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.