Labor & Employment Law

Cast Your Vote for Best Photo by an Electrical Worker

By Mike Hall

Here’s your chance to take a look at the work world as seen through the lenses of 15 members of the Electrical Workers (IBEW) and choose what you think are the top photographs in the IBEW’s 2009 Photo Contest.

The finalists?out of more than 300 submissions?offer a fascinating and, at times, stunning perspective of the varied work IBEW members perform every day. Among the photos are:

* A dizzying look down past the feet of a worker perched high above the ground in a lattice framed electrical tower;

* A spectacular sunrise over a power plant in the Nevada high desert;

* An abstract wall of heavy-duty yellow linesmen’s gloves; and

* Four workers balanced atop two power poles directing a helicopter delivery of a large crossbeam.

Click here to check out the other 11 photographs and vote for your top three. After you pick, you can see the results from the voting thus far. Each visitor is only permitted to vote once, so choose carefully. The vote closes Jan. 10.

Winners will be announced later this month. The winners and honorable mentions will be featured in an upcoming issue of the Electrical Worker and we’ll showcase the winner here as well.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on January 03, 2010 (boomark / email).