Today, we face enormous challenges in our country and in our industries. The UWUA is committed to providing solutions to these challenges.

We fervently support the creation of a cleaner and stronger America by reducing our dependence on foreign oil and investing in clean energy technologies. New and emerging technologies also present the opportunity to create good paying domestic jobs in an otherwise bleak economy - both now and long into the future.

A highly skilled workforce is key to our future and our aim is to ensure that all UWUA members remain the highest skilled, safest and most productive in the industries where we work by staying ahead of the technological curve and by recruiting and training tomorrow's workforce now.

With our Power for America Training Trust Fund, the UWUA will lead the way to help re-energize careers in existing industries and train an emerging new, unionized workforce for tomorrow's energy industries.

This is an exciting time for the Utility Workers Union of America.

UWUA President Michael Langford

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO