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 Helping Cool the City, on a 128-Degree Floor (July 13, 2007) (login required)
For those who whined about the hot weather yesterday, try changing an oil filter with Jeremiah F. O'Shea. More than halfway through his 12-hour shift yesterday, Mr. O'Shea, 56, an operating mechanic at Con Edison's East River Generating Station, unbolted a thick steel cover. His red face was already sopping wet. His lips were pressed together as he heaved the cover off the filter basket. His light blue button-down shirt had taken on a darker hue around his shoulder blades, and near his open wrists. Thin cotton gloves protected his hands. The cover was 112 degrees, 20 degrees above the high in Central Park yesterday. And things were about to get even hotter. Read more>>
National Officers Elected at 28th Constitutional Convention (July 5, 2007)
On Friday, June 29, Delegates to the Utility Workers Union of America's 28th Constitutional Convention elected National Officers to lead the 50,000-member union for the next four years. Read more>>
Lakeland Electric Workers Vote to Unionize (June 6, 2007)
After repeatedly rejecting attempts to unionize over the years, Lakeland Electric workers welcomed the Utility Workers Union of America on Wednesday in a big way. Read more>>
Utilities Brace for Worker Shortage (May 1, 2007)
There aren't nearly enough young power industry workers in the pipeline to take their place. The nation faces a shortage of utility workers just as it gears up for the biggest wave of construction in decades to meet soaring power demand. Read more>>
AFL interviews UWUA’s Kathy Ancil for organizing bill (May 7, 2007)
Kathy Ancil, a member of the Utility Workers in Michigan, was featured on the AFL-CIO audio report in the run-up to the House of Representatives passing the historic Employee Free Choice Act... Read more>>
Pensacola Call Center workers organize 50! (May 2, 2007)
Kim Warren, the president of Local 640 reports that she and her committee in Pensacola, Florida (a right to work for less state) doubled their membership in a single afternoon by organizing an amazing show of union power at a union-organized picnic... Read more>>
Executive Board and Staff meet jointly (May 2, 2007)
As he had promised, UWUA President Mike Langford created a first by calling a joint session of the Executive Board and National Staff, and asked for their input, working together, on how best to move the Union forward at the upcoming convention... Read more>>
National ensures Local's arbitration victory sticks (May 2, 2007)
The Borough of Oakmont in PA thought it could bully and spend into extinction Local 211 with a membership of only 23.Ü They weren't counting on the National Union... Read more>>
Strategic Planning Conference Draws Praise (March 5, 2007)
"The conference opened with five reports from local unions that have grappled with the prospect of job loss as a result of outsourcing and corporate spinoffs..." Read more>>
POSITION PAPERS
Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, Position Paper on
DEREGULATION and RESTRUCTURING OF THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY
Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, Position Paper on
NATURAL GAS DEREGULATION
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