Utility Worker Magazine Jan/Feb/Mar - 2011
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COVER STORY Turning up the Heat on American Water! - Coast-to-coast actions target renegade corporation. Awash in profits, executives shower themselves with bonuses and exorbitant compensation packages. Meanwhile, consumers are drowning in rate hikes and workers are forced to weather company-imposed cuts to health coverage. As UWUA members know, this is an all-too familiar scenario in the United States today. At American Water, workers are joining together, standing up and saying, “Enough is enough!” Read More PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE A Call to Action! - Watching the news recently, you have to wonder if the world has turned upside down. In the Middle East, people are overthrowing governments in order to secure their basic rights. And here at home, politicians are waging an all-out war to take away our democratic rights to join unions and bargain collectively. We’re in for a long fight to get our country’s priorities back on track. We won’t walk away until we have won. Read More Open letter from President Mike Langford: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk - We set an ambitious course of action at our last Constitutional Convention four years ago. And I am proud to say that we have stayed the course and exceeded many of our expectations, even during these tumultuous economic and political times. At this year’s convention we’ll be taking the UWUA to the next level. Read More FEATURES The UWUA Goes to Bat for Local 127 President Harold Giberson Wins his Job Back! - In major victory, Giberson proves “company loyalty” doesn’t mean denying the right to speak out against the employer. “ What I have learned from my National Union is that we have an obligation to do anything we can to better our members.” Read More UWUA Hosts Tri-National Energy Workers Conference - Solidarity with Canadian and Mexican workers helps protect jobs Building on the UWUA’s recent successes in working with unions from other countries to win organizing and contract campaigns here in the U.S., the UWUA hosted a conference of the Tri-National Energy Workers Network in January in Los Angeles, CA. Read More COLUMNS Speaking Out! - Many of the legislators and governors elected last year with the support of massive corporate campaign spending now are pushing legislation and initiatives that would cut middle-class jobs, depress wages and weaken workers’ rights. These include passing so-called right-to-work laws that disempower workers, falsely named paycheck protection legislation to weaken union political action, and bashing public employees. |
