IBEW 3RD District Veterans Committee Draft Mission Statement Founded in 2019, the IBEW 3rd District Veterans Committee was established to assist, provide guidance to, and support IBEW local unions in building veterans committees designed to mentor young veterans and bring veterans issues to the forefront of the IBEW. The efforts of this committee bring together the house of labor, the veteran community at large, IBEW members who are veterans, and local union leadership to improve lives in the community and livelihoods of the IBEW workforce. The IBEW 3rd District Veterans Committee seeks to organize individual local union committees in order to facilitate and connect community organizations with IBEW 3rd District local unions to recruit and promote the hiring of veterans within the electrical industry. Local union committees can provide the means for educational and social activities to strengthen the connections between military veteran IBEW members, encourage committee members to be more fully informed about economic and political issues that affect them, and foster their relationships with established union members and local union leadership. Tom Kelley IBEW 3rd District Veterans Committee Chair