on Apprenticeship, were established. The IBEW added additional training programs and courses as needed to keep up with new technologies, including an industrial electronics course in 1959 and an industrial nuclear power course in 1966. Today, the IBEW conducts apprenticeship programs for electricians, linemen, and VDV (voice, data, and video) installers (who install low-voltage wiring such as computer networks), in conjunction with the National Electrical Contractors Association, under the auspices of the National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC), which allows apprentices to "earn while you learn." In Canadian jurisdictions, the IBEW does not deliver apprenticeship training, but does conduct supplemental training for government trained apprentices and journeypersons, often at little or no cost to its members. The IBEW local 353 Toronto requires all apprentices to be registered with the JAC (Joint Apprenticeship Council) for a number of safety courses, pre-apprenticeship training, pre-trade school courses, supplementary training, and pre-exam courses. The IBEW's membership peaked in 1972 at approximately 1 million members. The membership numbers were in a slow decline throughout the rest of the 1970s and the 1980s, but have since stabilized. One major loss of membership for the IBEW came about because of the court-ordered breakup at the end of 1982 of AT&T, where the IBEW was heavily organized among both telephone workers and in AT&T's manufacturing facilities. In 1988, 30 percent of American construction work was unionized while the IBEW had 40 percent of electrical-related construction. Membership as of 2020 stands at about 775,000, according to their official website. The IBEW supports new construction of nuclear power plants in the United States. List of International Presidents Henry Miller (1891–1893) Queren Jansen (1893–1894) H. W. Sherman (1894–1897) J. H. Maloney (1897–1899) Thomas Wheeler (1899–1901) W. A. Jackson (1901–1903) Frank Joseph McNulty (1903–1919) – first full-time, paid president of the union; elected at Salt Lake City Conference in 1903, retired at New Orleans Conference in 1919 James Patrick Noonan (acting president, 1917, president 1919–1929) – died in office Henry H. Broach (1929–1933) Daniel (Dan) W. Tracy (1933–1940) Edward J. Brown (1940–1947) Daniel (Dan) W. Tracy (1947–1954) J. Scott Milne (1954–1955) Gordon M. Freeman (1955–1968) Charles H. Pillard (1968–1986) John Joseph (Jack) Barry (1986–2001) Edwin D. (Ed) Hill (2001–2015) Lonnie R. Stephenson (2015–2023) Kenneth W. (Kenny) Cooper (2023–Present) List of IBEW conventions References Further reading Fink, Gary M., ed. Labor unions (Greenwood, 1977) pp 83-85.. External links IBEW.org IBEW Archives International