Electricians Local 98 contributions received by 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.

C00162818, the Local 98 COPE account

Labor COPE committees raise from members under FEC rules that differ from Super PACs. Those rules explain how a high line count and a modest per-line mean can coexist. This page does not list the COPE committee’s candidate contributions. The $18,493,558 is receipts into C00162818 from Electricians Local 98-coded individuals, not the committee’s disbursements.

Other employers appearing on C00162818—retirees using a different string, spouses, or related locals—are outside these 111,945 rows. The committee hub is the all-employer view. Independent expenditures, if any, are outside the source note.

Union receipts are not Department of Labor grants

FEC individual contributions do not fund USAspending awards to electrical contractors or apprenticeship programs. A Local 98-related vendor in a contract file is a different dataset. Correlation of a local number across sites is not causation.

Motive, collective bargaining, and endorsement decisions are outside the packet. Unitemized gifts never appear. Cite $18,493,558, 111,945 contributions, $19,562,659, and C00162818. Keep the relationship as a join, not as a dues audit.

Linked hubs

The Electricians Local 98 industry page holds the $19,562,659 employer total. The IBEW LOCAL 98 COPE page holds C00162818 receipts from every employer and is the place to look for COPE disbursements that are not in this join. All industries and all FEC ties collect neighboring labor-PAC pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this 111,945-line cell.

94.5 percent is $18,493,558 of $19,562,659. The leftover $1,069,101 is Electricians Local 98-coded money on other committees. 111,945 lines at about $165 each match a labor COPE pattern. Unique donors are not listed. The packet does not confirm membership or deduction.

Other IBEW local numbers are other keys. ELECTRICIAN as occupation is another dimension. NATCA PAC is a similar high-volume join on a different committee. Do not stack those counts. COPE disbursements to candidates are outside $18,493,558.

Cite FEC.gov. Independent expenditures are outside the cell. Do not treat 94.5% as local-union treasury money or as USAspending awards to electrical contractors. Keep both sides named: Electricians Local 98 as employer text, IBEW Local 98 COPE as C00162818.

Researchers who need names behind the 111,945 contribution lines must leave this prose page for the committee and industry tables. This tie only publishes the overlap: $18,493,558 coded to ELECTRICIANS LOCAL 98 and received by INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS LOCAL 98 COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION (C00162818), against an employer grouping of $19,562,659. About 95% of that grouping is here; $1,069,101 is not. Dollars per line average about $165. That ratio is arithmetic on the packet facts, not a typical gift and not a legal finding. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and USAspending awards remain outside the join. Cite FEC.gov. Local 98 is not every IBEW local.

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.