INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 98 COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION

A local union string meeting its COPE committee

ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 as employer and IBEW LOCAL 98 COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION as recipient share a local number. The employer grouping totals $19,562,659. Committee C00162818 received $18,493,558 of that grouping across 111,945 contributions—about 95% of the labeled employer total. One hundred eleven thousand lines is a high-volume pattern, closer to Honeywell’s connected PAC than to a 44-gift Senate cell.

Dollars per line average about $165 ($18,493,558 ÷ 111,945). That mean is consistent with repeated itemized gifts, including COPE payroll deduction. The packet does not confirm deduction, membership, or that every filer is a journeyman. It reports the overlap of two FEC labels.

Local 98 is not every IBEW local

IBEW locals typed under other numbers sit in other keys. INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS as a national employer string, if it exists, is not merged here. ELECTRICIAN as occupation is a different dimension. The $19,562,659 total is ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 as stored.

About $1,069,101 of the employer grouping ($19,562,659 − $18,493,558) went to committees other than C00162818. That leftover is the portion of Local 98-coded individual receipts that did not go to this COPE committee. The industry hub still matters for those other recipients.

Questions

How much did Electricians Local 98 donors give IBEW Local 98 COPE?

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions show $18,493,558 coded to the Electricians Local 98 employer grouping and received by INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 98 COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION (C00162818). That join covers 111,945 contributions. The broader employer total is $19,562,659. These figures are not independent expenditures.

Is this union treasury money or member contributions?

The total is itemized individual contributions whose employer field is Electricians Local 98, typically the pattern of a labor COPE committee’s receipts from people who listed the local. This page does not verify membership or payroll deduction. It reports the labeled join to committee C00162818 only.

What share of Electricians Local 98 FEC money went to this COPE committee?

About 95% of the $19,562,659 Electricians Local 98 employer total is in this join: $18,493,558 to C00162818. About $1,069,101 went to other committees. That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding about solicitation or compliance.

Why are there 111,945 contributions?

The packet lists 111,945 itemized contribution lines totaling $18,493,558, about $165 per line. That volume is consistent with repeated small gifts, including COPE deduction, but the packet does not confirm the mechanism. Unique donors are not listed. Independent expenditures are not in this join. Use the C00162818 hub for committee disbursements.