Local Union 890 referral office is located at 17 S. River St. Janesville, WI sign in hours are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday excluding holidays.

Each applicant must have a current paid dues receipt. Applicants must prove unemployment with a termination slip from his/her latest employer or possess a travel letter (i.e. "letter of introduction") from his/her business agent at the time of registration.

RE-SIGN will be required to remain on the out of work list on the registrants’ monthly anniversary date. If your re-sign date falls on a Saturday or Sunday, you may re-sign the Friday before or the Monday after. If your re-sign date falls on a holiday you may resign the day before or the day after the holiday. Re-sign may be accomplished by any one of the following methods for 30 and 60 days NINETY DAY RE-SIGNS MUST BE IN PERSON. You can re-sign no more than seven (7) days prior to your scheduled resign date.

A. IN-PERSON:         8:00 am to 4:30 pm
                                    Monday – Friday

B. FAX:                        608–752–1262
                                     use only resign
                                     form provided

C. MAIL:                     use only resign
                                    form provided

                                    IBEW LOCAL UNION 890
                                    17 S RIVER ST
                                    JANESVILLE WI 53548

D.  E-mail                    Go To Form

REFERRAL - The normal hours of dispatch for ALL CALLS will be between the hours of 8 am and 10 am. However, dispatching of jobs will continue past 10 am if necessary to fill all available job requests.  Call will be made to the phone number registered on the out of work list at the time of registration. only one number where you can be reached during these hours.)

Registrants will be allowed two (2) turndowns without penalty. Registrants will be completely removed from the book for a third turn-down. Registrants must re-register in person. Being unavailable for a referral when work would have been offered to a registrant will be considered a turndown. Rejection of an applicant by an employer will not be considered a turn-down.

The Business Manager is responsible for filling calls in a timely manner as needed by employers, emergency referrals may have to be made outside normal hours using whatever means are available to fill calls.

If an applicant accepts a job and then decides to turn the job down or does not report for the job he/she will be removed immediately from the out of work book and will be required to re-register in person.

Any applicant having a complaint with the administration of the referral system must submit any such complaint in writing to the referral appeals committee within five (5) days from the act complained of to the local union office.