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On Sept. 24, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 5 celebrated its 125th-anniversary event at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. It was produced by many of our BMA Media team which first engineered Local 5’s 100th Anniversary union celebration in 1997. It is the first local union that BMA has organized both the 100th and 125th anniversary.

It was a beautiful evening at the Denver Museum of Art on Saturday, March 25^th, 2023 where the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 68 held its 125th-anniversary. It was a special gala event to celebrate the Local’s 125 years of prosperity and resilience and to honor members, both past and present.

Labor Tools, powered by BMA Media Group, is proud to announce a new agreement with IBEW Local 126 to produce their upcoming 75th Anniversary celebration. 

With the help of the BMA Media Group events team, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local Union 38 will be celebrating 125 years of brotherhood next year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Over 600 IBEW Local 42 members and guests filled the Premier Ballroom at Foxwoods Resort and Casino to celebrate 50 years of Brotherhood on Dec. 7.

More than 1,700 guests and proud members of IBEW Local 613 came together to celebrate the bonds of brotherhood forged over the past 100 years during an exciting anniversary celebration on Oct. 12.

BMA Media Group Union Special Events Team worked with Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 5 of Cleveland to celebrate their 150th anniversary, making them one of the oldest Bricklayers Unions in the country.

The event was held on March 29, 2019 and attended by over 300 guests at the iconic and historic Powerhouse Entertainment Complex located on the West Bank of the Flats in Cleveland.

The perfect venue for a Union event

The Cleveland Powerhouse Entertainment Complex provided a unique, but fitting venue for the 150th Anniversary Celebration of BAC Local 5. Built in 1882, The Viaduct Power House was the first power plant dedicated to providing electricity to street cars in Cleveland. In the 1980s, Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 5, along with many other Cleveland building trades locals, were instrumental in restructuring the power plant into an entertainment complex, with the most recent addition being the Greater Cleveland Aquarium. The decor in the aquarium incorporates exposed brick walls, steel girders, smokestacks and coal tunnels honoring the Power House’s industrial past.

On the first day of March 1916, eleven men banded together and formed the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 129 in Elyria, Ohio. 

One hundred years later, as the union looked to celebrate an impressive anniversary milestone, Local 129 members knew they could trust LaborTools to plan a one-of-a-kind event that would delight the membership and honor the legacy of the great union.

BMA Media Group received a pair of prestigious Telly Awards for a video documentary of IBEW Local 369's 100-year history that the union multi-media company produced.