UWUA News
Con Ed Curtails Services After Talks Break Down Share
As the city heads into a week of expected high temperatures that could strain the electricity grid, managers at the Consolidated Edison Company began settling into new roles on Sunday, doing the jobs of more than 8,000 unionized workers who were sent home after an early morning breakdown in contract negotiations prompted the company’s first labor lockout in decades. Read More
Locked-out Con Ed workers Hit Picket Line as Region Sizzles Share
Con Ed said walk-in centers would be closed, meter readings suspended and work limited on non-emergency construction projects. Read More
Countdown to Cruelty for UWUA Local 369 Share
“Our members have literally risked their lives time and again to keep this community safe and to help Entergy make $1 million a day in profits,” said UWUA Local 369 President Dan Hurley. “This is a supremely cruel gesture from a company that is tone deaf to mounting safety concerns, unbending on basic contract fairness, and now unconcerned that families who rely on them for vital healthcare will be left with nowhere to turn.” Read More
Mass. Politicians Support Pilgrim Nuke Plant Workers at Rally Share
With their health care benefits set to be cut off within days, locked-out Pilgrim nuclear power plant workers rallied on the State House steps Thursday with some of the state’s most powerful Democrats and labor leaders. Read More
UWUA’s Richard Passarelli Appears on The Union Edge Share
Listen to UWUA’s Richard Passarelli discuss the Power for America Training Trust Fund, UWUA and its Utility Worker Military Assistance Program. Listen Now
City of Rialto Approves Water Rate Increases, Denies Petition Share
The Rialto City Council on Tuesday voted to end the contentious issue of a whooping rate increase by voting 4-1 for its approval. The council’s action will propel water and sewer rates 114.8 percent by 2016. Read More
Labor News
Tell President Obama to Make Trade Fair Share
We have less than two weeks to collect as many signatures as we can to call for a trade policy that works for working families before we deliver the petitions at the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in San Diego. Read More
Industry News
ACORE Launches EnergyFactCheck.org Share
ACORE’s plan to ensure that the complete story around clean and renewable energy is told, and to respond to inaccuracies and misrepresentations with well-founded facts. Read More
Public Utilities News
Seattle Public Utilities Seeking Increase in Rates Share
Seattle Public Utilities wants to raise residential garbage, sewage and drainage rates 12 percent by 2015. The following year, garbage rates would climb another 1.6 percent. Read More
COPE (Political Education)
Your Message in the Language of Congress Share
PopVox is a very powerful tool for actually finding out what is going on in government without reading about it through prepackaged opinion pieces. Read More
Human Rights
I Understand What Medicare is But I’m Not Sure What The “Affordable Health Care Act” Changed Share
What people call “Obamacare” is actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Read More
Veterans Affairs and Information
Agency Confronts Hurdles in Helping Veterans Match Military Skills to Civilian Jobs Share
In a widely cited recent study of veteran hiring, researchers from the Center for a New American Security, a research organization based in Washington, found that the No. 1 obstacle to hiring veterans was matching military skills with civilian work. Read More
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