Labor Day Parade & Celebration

JOIN I.B.E.W LOCAL 86 THIS LABOR DAY!

Monday, September 7, 2026

March with your Union and celebrate Labor Day with fellow I.B.E.W 86 members, retirees, and their families!

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Stand in solidarity with your union as we march in the 2026 Rochester Labor Day Parade.

After the parade, we will head back to ESL Ballpark for the LABOR DAY CELEBRATION courtesy of the Rochester-Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation. This will include:

*Free food

*Drinks

*Live music

*DJ

*Bounce house

*Face painters

*Meet & greet with Spikes & Mittsy

Admittance to the celebration also includes ONE ticket to the Red Wings game which is at 4:00pm that afternoon! We do need to give an estimated headcount to the AFL-CIO board.

Parade starts at 11:00am. We will be lining up between 10:00-10:30am.

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NEW I.B.E.W LOCAL 86 LABOR DAY

T-SHIRTS

For anyone who marches in the parade will receive one of our newly designed I.B.E.W Local 86 T-shirts while supplies last.

Wear your union colors with pride!

PICK UP YOUR T-SHIRT

The day of the parade.

Meet at ESL BALLPARK (Frontier Field) at 9:00am to pick up your parade shirt. There will be a shuttle bus to the parade!

RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY!

To march in the parade and/or attend the celebration,

Call the Union Hall

(585) 235-1510

Or stop in the Union Hall and make sure to sign the signup sheet.

We hope you’ll join us as we stand together in solidarity and celebrate working people!

I.B.E.W. Local 86 Mixed Clambake

Come join us for the Annual I.B.E.W., Local 86 Mixed Clambake

Date: Saturday, September 12th, 2026

Registration is from noon to 2:00 p.m.

You can either send in your request for you tickets or stop by the Hall to purchase your tickets.

We accept, cash, check or credit/debit card for payment.

Tickets must be purchased no later than Friday, August 28th, 2026.

Keep an eye out for the mailer for pricing and see you soon

Don’t forget to re-sign from the 10th-16th for the month of July!!

Attention brothers and sisters,

Don’t forget to re-sign the out of workbook from the 10th to the 16th of each month to maintain your position on the book.

All re-sign are from the 10th through the 16th of each calendar month. Re-signing can be done by email, fax, and mail.

Currently, we are also taking re-signs by phone.

Contact the Local 86 Referral Agent at (585) 235-1510, option #3.

Web Referral is available at www.ibewlu86.org.

Click on the Web Referral and then proceed with the instruction on the page.

Members can bid on jobs available, update basic information, as well resign from this link.

LOOKING FOR JOURNEYMAN WIREMAN

IBEW Local 86 along with Ferguson Electric are in need of Journeyman Wireman for the U of R Bed Tower Project.
The current rate of pay for a JW is $44.30 an hour. On Monday June 1st, 2026, that increases to $47.40. The current benefits package is $30.50 per hour that will increase to $32.60 per hour. This project is currently working 5 nine hours days and 1 eight hour day. That’s 40 hours of straight time and 13 hours at time and a half. IF YOU WORK 95% of the available hours there is a $300 dollar incentive (taxed) each week. If you are a traveler and are coming from 50 miles outside of the Rochester area there is an $850 per diem.

Please call Phil Mixter or Vincent Sclafani at 585-235-1510.

Retirees can go back to work!!

The Local 86 Pension Trustees approve that retirees can go back to work.

The return-to-work period is April 27,2026 to December 27,2026.

2026 Red Wings Tickets Available!!

The Rochester Red Wings are back for another season !!

Tickets are available for pick up at the Union hall.

One game per member.

4 tickets per Member.

2026 International Convention Results

The election results for Local 86 Delegates running for the 2026 International Convention are in!!

Delegates:

Joe Gibbardo: 16

Todd Krenzer: 49

Josh Miller: 42

Brian Sanderson: 14

Alternates:

Clay Beeman: 48

Mike Wehner:17

Congratulations to all the delegate winners!!

And a big shout out to all the members who came out and voted last night.

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