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The IBEW is calling on all members to mobilize now and stop the Trump administration from privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). We support the President’s goal of unleashing American energy, but destabilizing the TVA is not the answer.

For almost a century, the TVA has delivered affordable energy and economic development to over 10 million residents across seven states. The TVA has been a model for how public power can provide for communities while creating good union jobs that support thousands of working families.

Privatizing the TVA will undo everything the TVA stands for:

• Force residents to pay more for electricity
• Trigger the loss of skilled union jobs, including those of 10,000 IBEW members, many of whom are veterans or from rural communities  
• Promote profits over the public interest by installing private companies with limited accountability and no roots in the community

As the nation faces unprecedented demand for energy, IBEW members maintain the TVA’s legacy dams, hydroelectric generation stations, nuclear plants, and fossil fuel generating facilities, all while leading the clean energy future with innovative technology like small modular reactors. Dismantling the TVA now will betray the people the TVA was founded to serve by eliminating countless good jobs and raising every resident’s electricity bill.

President Trump has already removed three board members and threatened the rest to fire CEO Don Moul or face removal themselves. Now is the time to publicly oppose any proposal that would privatize the TVA or reduce public control of its operations.

This is about protecting workers, defending communities, and preserving public infrastructure for the good of future generations.

📝 We must act now. Write to your members of Congress today. Tell them to protect good-paying union jobs for IBEW members and the future of energy in the South by opposing the privatization of the TVA.