click() not working

click() not working

I'm new to jQuery so be gentle.  I'm trying to do a very simple function.  User is displayed a table of Incidents.  if they want to acknowledge an incident they click a button with class="delIncButton".  I haven't even gotten to the Ajax part where it delete's that row out of the database.  When I click on the button nothing happens.

HTML

<button class="delIncButton" name="2" value="2">&nbsp;</button>

jQuery

$('.delIncButton').click(function(){
        var $incID = this.val();
        alert("ID = "+$incID);
});

When I click on the button, I get nothing.  I've tried IE, FF, Chrome all on Windows.  Other jQuery functions in the same page are working fine.

What am I doing wrong?

Tyler