For many years, the members of IBEW Local 98 have given back to the communities they serve during the holiday season and 2025 was no exception. During Thanksgiving, Local 98 members once again came ...

IBEW Local 98 recently partnered with the Chabad of Fairmount and the Spring Garden Development Corporation to feed hungry families in the Spring Garden community who have been struggling to make ends ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- John Dougherty's reign at the top of IBEW Local 98 is now over. On Tuesday, the longtime labor leader announced that he has resigned as the business manager of IBEW Local 98 ...

It’s been a tumultuous few years for IBEW Local 98, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the union’s campaign finance reports. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 has long ...

On Thursday December 7, 2023, the former business manager of the politically connected International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98 in Philadelphia, John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, was ...

Sign up to get the best of Philly, every day. In early January, John Dougherty‘s IBEW Local 98 union held a large protest in front of the old Parker Spruce Hotel ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! The Inquirer has an interesting story on the political influence of IBEW 98, the local ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- An innovative program is changing the face of what's typically a male-dominated industry. IBEW Local 98 is graduating nine high school girls into careers as union electricians.

Local IBEW 98 pickets near the Trolley Car Diner. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks, file) A recent string of protests outside of the Trolley Car Diner & Deli were both a blessing and a curse for owner Ken ...

The head of IBEW's Local 98 has held his head high since FBI investigators raided his home and business, the union's Philadelphia offices and the office of City Councilman Bobby Henon, and remarks he ...