UWUA News
Utility Workers Union Files Complaint Challenging Pennsylvania American Water Customer Service Terminations Share
The complaint charges that from at least 2008 through October 2011, Pennsylvania American routinely terminated water service to customers in its Mon Valley District without delivering a notice of termination three days prior to the disconnection, as required by PUC regulations. Read More

UWUA 2012 Gas Conference a Success Share
The Utility Workers Union of America must position ourselves as the guardian of our members' safety and the safety of the public and to be a force for protection of our most critical resource--water. Conference Coverage

Obama’s Union Point Man Share
As longtime union organizer Stewart Acuff put it: “If we aren’t able to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, we will work with President Obama and Vice President Biden and their appointees to the National Labor Relations Board to change the rules governing forming a union through administrative action.” Read More

Utility Workers Union of America Endorses Critz Share
The Utility Workers Union endorsed Mark Critz Wednesday in the race for the recently reconfigured 12th Congressional District. It’s a subset of the AFL-CIO. Read More

Playing Bigger Than You Are: No One Said It Was Going To Be Easy Share
In Playing Bigger Than You Are, Acuff takes us down the unglamorous dirt roads of East Texas as he helps to build the grass roots organization that bore fruit in union representation for Beverly Nursing Home workers. Read More

Labor News
Auto Plants Hold Answer to What Eastwood Meant Share
“It was meant to be a message about job growth and the spirit of America,” Mr. Eastwood said after the ruckus erupted, assuring that he was not in the political camp of Mr. Obama. Read More

Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase Share
The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns and evictions in the past week. Since the violent clashes last month in Oakland, Calif., headlines about Occupy have dwindled, too. Read More

No Middle-Class Jobs Share
And what types of jobs will be most available over the next eight years? Well, the report packs good news if you want to make a career out of changing bedpans or serving lattes, not so good if your dream is to work in financial services or information technologies. Read More

Labor Unions Facing Fight Over Pensions Share
If Big Labor wants to bring voters over to its team, perhaps the best thing it could do would be to play ball on pension reform. While U.S. unions deserve credit for improving the lives of workers in myriad ways, for many people they now are synonymous with the red-ink budgets and mediocre service. Read More

Deal Beneficial to Hotel Union Is Seen by Some as Special Case Share
Officials of other unions enviously dismissed the proposed contract as a special case that was not likely to be replicated in the private sector anytime soon. Read More

Industry News
Welders Question PG&E's Gas Pipeline Work Share
Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s old gas lines are riddled with potentially lethal weld flaws, and new welding that the company's crews did during pipeline testing last year is suspect, two veteran welders told state regulators this week. Read More

Conn.: Public Interest a Must for New NStar Deal Share
Weeks after claiming oversight over Northeast Utilities' proposed $4.6 billion purchase of NStar, the state's regulatory authority says the utilities must demonstrate that the deal is in the public interest. Read More

American Water CEO: Stop Your Attacks on Working Families! - Sign Petition Share
This Company is demanding that Union workers be replaced by contractors, but it is doubtful that the consumer would see any reduction in the cost of their water. Sign Petition

Power Grid Updates Left System Vulnerable to Cyberattacks, Auditors Say Share
“Without a formal risk assessment and associated mitigation strategy, threats and weaknesses may go unidentified and expose the systems to an unacceptable level of risk,” Friedman wrote in an audit released in January. Read More

US Licenses First Nuclear Reactors Since 1978 Share
It's been 34 years -- and several nuclear accidents later -- but a divided federal panel on Thursday licensed a utility to build nuclear reactors in the U.S. for the first time since 1978. Read More

Public Utilities
Utility Panel: Closings Could Impact Ohio Rates Share
The closings of six coal-burning power plants operated by FirstEnergy Corp. could end up bringing higher electricity rates to much of northern Ohio several years from now, the state's utility regulators said. Read More

PUCO ‘Addressing’ AEP Rate Hike Share
State regulators did an about-face on electricity rates for American Electric Power small-business customers yesterday, vowing to change a system that has led to soaring bills for that group of customers. Read More

Rural Loophole Curbing Pennsylvania Pipeline Inspections Share
Pennsylvania regulators are taking steps to begin safety checks of some natural gas pipelines in the Marcellus Shale regions - hiring inspectors and drafting new rules that will bring the state in line with the rest of the nation. Read More

States of Denial
Right-to-Work 101 Share
In states where the law exists, “right-to-work” makes it illegal for workers and employers to negotiate a contract requiring everyone who benefits from a union contract to pay their fair share of the costs of administering it. Right-to-work has nothing to do with people being forced to be union members. Read More

Right to Work" is Wrong for Michigan - Sign Petition Share
As a taxpayer and middle class worker, I strongly oppose any effort to make Michigan a so-called "right-to-work" state. The legislation, supported by Rep. Mike Shirkey and Sen. Pat Colbeck, will give even more profits to greedy CEOs at the expense of our jobs, our retirement security, and our kids’ future. Read More

Labor Unions Targeted by Several Missouri Bills Share
The measures include the near-annual effort to make Missouri a right-to-work state, changes to prevailing wage laws and a ban on public sector unions from automatically deducting membership fees from paychecks. Read More

One Heart One Alabama: Rally and Lobby Day to Repeal H56 on Valentine's Day! Share
Help send a message to our state legislators that HB56 is not Alabama. February 14 is the kick-off of a series of lobby days to show legislators that Alabamians want HB56 to be repealed immediately. Read More

COPE (Political Education)
Gingrich and Saul Alinsky Share
Gingrich has always understood that rich get their awesome, frightening power by the use of their wealth. Gingrich has nothing but contempt for the poor, workers, and the middle class. Read More

Pro-Labor Republicans Recruit for Indiana House Races Share
Pro-labor Republicans are targeting several GOP lawmakers who backed divisive right-to-work legislation that made Indiana the 23rd state to ban unions from collecting mandatory representation fees. Read More

The Big Money Behind State Laws Share
It is no coincidence that so many state legislatures have spent the last year taking the same destructive actions: making it harder for minorities and other groups that support Democrats to vote, obstructing health care reform, weakening environmental regulations and breaking the spines of public- and private-sector unions. Read More

Human Rights
Thanks ObamaCare Share
On March 23, 2009 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) became law.  This law is expanding health coverage to millions of Americans. Read More