{"id":1641,"date":"2014-11-13T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T22:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2014-11-13T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T22:23:21","slug":"ibew-local-375-celebrates-100th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"IBEW LOCAL 375 CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Receives milestone award from Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALLENTOWN, PA<\/strong>\u2014 Local Union 375 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers marks its 100th Anniversary this week culminating with a sold-out dinner at Arts Quest Center at SteelStacks Saturday Night. IBEW Local 375 is a member of The Lehigh Valley Building and Construction Trades Council, which is the umbrella organization of over 20 local unions.<\/p>\n<p>Local 375 was founded in 1914 with 17 charter members. Today, the membership is over 900 and continues to grow annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tremendous accomplishment for one of the oldest unions in the state, and I\u2019m proud that they are a member of the Lehigh Valley Building Trades,\u201d said Jim Reilley, President of the Lehigh Valley Building and Construction Trades Council. \u201cCongratulations on 100 years of providing quality workmanship and a safe working environment. We couldn\u2019t be happier for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union was also presented with a Milestone Award at last Thursday\u2019s Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce annual meeting held at Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very proud moment in Local 375\u2019s history,\u201d said Dave Reichard, President of Local 375. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to play such an important role in building the Lehigh Valley, and I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll continue to do so for another 100 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Press Release Provided By:<\/p>\n<p>Mick Dee<\/p>\n<p>Media Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>Seven Points Consulting<\/p>\n<p>(610) 841-3733<\/p>\n<p>mdee@7pointsconsulting.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receives milestone award from Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce ALLENTOWN, PA\u2014 Local Union 375 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers marks its 100th Anniversary this week culminating with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=1641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IBEW LOCAL 375 CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[645,2,481,644],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2","tag-ibew","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-press-release","tag-union"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IBEWLV.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}