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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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Energy in Motion
Electrical Alliance

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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You put in the hours. You show up and you do the w You put in the hours. You show up and you do the work.

What's your employer putting in for you?
⚡Health coverage
⚡Dental 
⚡Vision 
⚡Paid time off
⚡Retirement 

These are essentials you've earned. 

What does your benefits package actually cover?

See what a union package actually looks like: https://ibewlocal26.org/join-as-individual/
You shouldn't have to know everything about a care You shouldn't have to know everything about a career before you can try it.

That's what makes the Residential Track different. You can start working in the electrical industry, earning while you learn, without passing a test or completing an interview first. It's hands-on from day one, and it keeps your options open.

Apprentices who want to move into the Inside Electrical track can apply from within, using the letters of recommendation they've earned along the way.

One door opens another.

Find out if the Electrical Alliance is for you: https://electricalalliance.org/training/
The Prince George's County Public Schools Blueprin The Prince George's County Public Schools Blueprint is a collaborative project aimed at improving the quality of learning for the second-largest school system in Maryland.

A project this size requires the skilled craftsmanship of our Local 26 members. Phase II is underway, with crews from Heller Electric, Freestate Electric, and Kelly Electric addressing chronic HVAC, roof, and plumbing issues, and poor air quality across eight new schools.

One of those schools is Robert Frost K-8 in New Carrollton, a three-story, 224,000 square foot building that will require 70,000 manhours for its electrical package alone. When it's done, students will have geothermal heating, improved air quality, and more natural light.

Phase II wraps up in 2028.

The trade builds more than infrastructure. It builds community.

Ready to be part of projects like this? Learn what it means to be a union contractor: https://electricalalliance.org/become-a-contractor/
An IBEW sister just made history, again. Liz Shul An IBEW sister just made history, again.

Liz Shuler started as an IBEW organizer. She worked her way through the ranks, broke barrier after barrier, and on June 7 became the first woman ever reelected as president of the AFL-CIO, having made history in 2022 as the first woman elected to the role.

Her story is an example of what this union has always made possible for the people who join it.

In Liz’s words: the labor movement exists to give people hope. Local 26 believes that too.

See what we stand for: electricalalliance.org/about
The right crew makes or breaks a project. Electr The right crew makes or breaks a project. 

Electrical Alliance contractors have access to one of the largest pools of qualified electricians in the country, people trained to protect your reputation on every job.

As the only organization in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia connecting signatory contractors with highly trained union electricians, membership means you're never scrambling when the work comes in.

When contractors grow, the whole industry grows with them.

Better workers' rights. Better work.

Ready to grow with us? Explore contractor membership:  https://electricalalliance.org/become-a-contractor/

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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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