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For DC Residents

Forge Your Own Path in the Electrical Industry

Step-Up is a program that puts you on the path to becoming an IBEW journeyperson electrician. If accepted, you’ll earn a great wage while learning the electrical trade, including solar.

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Promoting a Diverse Workforce

The Step-Up program is an initiative by the JATC 26 in partnership with DC DOES that helps DC residents build careers in the electrical industry. Our goal is to open more opportunities for you to pursue our apprenticeship training—even if time or money is a barrier.

Why Apply to Step-up?


No College, No Problem

  • Lucrative future: Pursue a stable career path with excellent pay and union benefits like healthcare and pension.
  • Make a difference: Build a rewarding, hands-on career.
  • Lifelong expertise: Enjoy job placement and continuous support as your progress into the future.
Apply Now
Energy in Motion - No College No Problem
How it works

How it works

Step-up consists of two core components to help you access an apprenticeship.

Step-Up Program

This one-year training program is exclusively for DC residents. It allows you to earn apprenticeship wages while taking on a smaller course load and building up your skills and knowledge. This puts you in a better position to pursue apprenticeship certification when the time’s right.

Support Services

Gain access to a wide variety of social and training services so you can overcome obstacles you may be facing.
These services can include:

  • Training to develop skills like interviewing or resume development
  • Childcare services
  • Transportation services
  • Access to mental health support
  • Resources for overcoming substance addiction

Who Is Step-Up For?

The program is for DC residents interested in a skilled trade.

We especially encourage applicants who are:

  • Immigrants
  • Women
  • People of color
  • Veterans
  • Student athletes
  • Students
Learn more

Join Us Today, and Power Up Your Future With the Electrical Alliance

APPLY FOR THE Step-up GRANT TODAY
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Local 26 members get employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus prescription and preventive care. Membership also includes confidential mental health support through the Employee Assistance Program, and retirement benefits built for long-term financial security.

You deserve a career where you earn top dollar with full benefits.

If it's been a while since you've looked into what organizing can do for you and your loved ones, now's a good time: https://electricalalliance.org/benefits/
Freestate Electric just landed the biggest single Freestate Electric just landed the biggest single contract in its history: over $40 million to build four schools under the Blueprint Schools Program. The company has been building in the DC area since 1984.

The work spans Margaret Brent Elementary, Robert Frost K-8, Brandywine K-8, and Springhill Lake Elementary, all overseen across the next three years.

This is what it looks like when signatory contractors grow. More work, bigger contracts, and the skilled crews to back them up.

Ready to grow with us? Explore contractor membership: https://electricalalliance.org/become-a-contractor/
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Check in with your crew throughout the day. A quick "you good?" catches problems before they become emergencies.
Will Ng's dad kept a job in Local 26 for 52 years. Will Ng's dad kept a job in Local 26 for 52 years. His uncle put in 38. 

Growing up, Will watched what that steady paycheck actually built: a stable home, a family that never had to worry, and a Local strong enough to still be standing decades later.

Now he's Local 26's newly elected Financial Secretary, carrying that same stability forward for the next generation of members.

Curious what membership could mean for your family? https://electricalalliance.org/become-a-contractor/
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What almost made you quit in your first year? And which part kept you going?

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The Electrical Alliance

The Electrical Alliance is a cooperative effort between the skilled craftsmen of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 26 and the electrical contractors of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of National Electrical Contractors Association.

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