Ben Weber Announces IBEW 103 Endorsement of His Campaign

 Ben Weber Announces IBEW 103 Endorsement of His Campaign 

 Ben Weber announces today that he is being endorsed by IBEW 103 representing electrical and telecommunications workers across Boston for City Council District 6. 

“Ben has shown through 18 years of work as a workers’ rights attorney that he will always be on the side of working-class people,” said IBEW 103 Business Manager Lou Antonellis.  “He will bring integrity, dedication, and intelligence to the Boston City Council.  We believe he would be a strong City Councilor and know that he has our members' backs.” 

“I am honored to have the hardworking people of IBEW 103 supporting my campaign,” Ben Weber said.  “IBEW 103 has a leading role in not just ensuring workers are paid a fair and livable wage, but in transitioning our economy to clean energy, ensuring our public infrastructure is safe, and so much more.  As a City Councilor, organized labor will not just have an ear to bend but a partner who will help narrow the wealth gap and ensure working families can afford to live in Boston.”

 IBEW 103’s mission is “to provide Greater Boston's developers with the best trained, most efficient, safest electricians and telecommunications specialists while fostering our Union's values of economic fairness, equal opportunity and charitable giving in the communities we work, live and raise our families.”  Along with representing their workers and ensuring they get the highest wages and benefits possible, IBEW 103 is active in charity work across Boston and has dedicated itself to helping the less fortunate. 

Ben and his wife Xan have lived in Jamaica Plain for 15 years, raising their son Noah, 16, and daughter Hannah, 11.  He is running for District 6 City Councilor because he believes that he can contribute to a collaborative City Council that focuses on the issues facing Boston residents and families every single day. 

Weber has devoted his legal career to protecting workers from wage theft and other forms of corporate greed. He represented migrant cotton workers in the Mississippi Delta, learning Spanish to better communicate with his immigrant clients, then moved to Boston in 2008 to join the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. As Counsel at the law firm Lichten & Liss-Riordan, Weber has advocated on behalf of hospital workers, Black and Latino public safety workers, farm workers, and delivery drivers. He believes that the City Council has an important role to play in protecting Boston’s workers, by ordinance and through political advocacy.  

Both children were students at the Mission Hill School, where Weber’s family and their close-knit community of MHS families suffered the turmoil of last year’s alarming report and sudden closure. Noah is now at Boston Arts Academy and Hannah at the Curley School, but the experience showed Weber the need for BPS to communicate better, truly empower families as partners, and ensure more quality school options for everyone. In Weber’s words, “I’m committed to Boston Public Schools, so I’m running to make sure that we learn from the Mission Hill School situation to guarantee every BPS student an excellent education.” 

A college athlete himself at Brandeis University, Weber believes in the value of youth sports. He has served as a coach to Hannah and Noah’s teams in both Jamaica Plain Youth Soccer and Parkway Soccer and has seen firsthand Boston’s great need for improved public sports fields. Weber strongly supports capital investments such as the proposed renovation of White Stadium to finally provide BPS track and field athletes with the updated facilities they deserve. Weber is also a member of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council, where he is dedicated to working together to achieve affordable housing solutions that preserve Jamaica Plain’s diverse character and tackle the housing crisis burdening so many of Boston’s working families. 

Weber is running for the District 6 City Council seat currently held by Councilor Kendra Lara, representing West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, and parts of Roslindale and Mission Hill.