At IBEW Local 17, we know the value of hard work, skill, and sacrifice. Our members perform dangerous and highly specialized work every day—clearing hazards, protecting infrastructure, and helping keep the lights on for Michigan families and businesses, often in the toughest weather and most challenging conditions.

Chris Swanson’s campaign is built around a message that resonates deeply with union workers: Protect. Serve. Unify. He understands that strong communities are built by strong working families, and that starts with protecting good union jobs, fair wages, quality benefits, safe working conditions, and the right to collectively bargain.

Chris believes in investing in Michigan—building here, training here, and creating opportunities here. He supports strengthening public education, investing in skilled trades and apprenticeship programs, and ensuring the next generation has a pathway to good-paying careers without leaving our state.

We need leaders who stand with labor—not just during election season, but every day. Leaders who understand that when unions are strong, Michigan is strong.

IBEW Local 17 is proud to endorse Chris Swanson for Governor because he stands with working men and women and supports the future of organized labor in Michigan.

Union Strong. Michigan Strong.

IBEW Local 17 is proud to endorse Mallory McMorrow for U.S. Senate.

Mallory has been a strong advocate for working people and understands that unions built the middle class. She has consistently supported collective bargaining rights, fair wages, safe working conditions, and policies that strengthen union jobs in Michigan.

Mallory has spoken clearly against so-called “right-to-work” policies and supports expanding access to good-paying union careers in the energy, infrastructure, and skilled trades sectors. She recognizes that the future of Michigan depends on investing in the workers who build, maintain, and power our communities every day.

As someone with family ties to the trade—her grandfather was a Lineman—she understands firsthand the pride, sacrifice, and skill that union utility workers bring to the job. She has emphasized that union jobs create pathways to strong families, stable communities, and economic opportunity.

Mallory’s campaign focuses on fighting for working families by protecting labor rights, growing union jobs, investing in infrastructure, and ensuring the transition to new energy technologies creates more union work—not less.

IBEW Local 17 stands with candidates who stand with labor. We believe Mallory McMorrow will be a strong voice for Michigan’s union workers in Washington.