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In a major organizing victory, Cleveland water workers overwhelmingly voted to join the UWUA late last year and are now preparing to negotiate their first contract as members ofLocal 270. The Cleveland workers sought out the UWUA because they were dissatisfied with the representation they were getting as members of an independent union. It was…
As a member of the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI), a coalition of labor, industry and the environmental community, the UWUA is supporting federal incentives for the commercial deployment of carbon capture, use and storage technology (CCUS) as an energy, economic and environmental priority for the nation. The January start-up of NRG’s Petra Nova…
We knew ‘right-to-work’ was going to pass once the new Republican Governor came into office in January,” explains Allan Bathon, president of Missouri Local 335. “We haven’t sat down with the company [American Water] to talk about it yet. Our contract expires October 2019 so we have time to prepare.” Getting active politically Meanwhile, Bathon…
Utility workers in the water and wastewater industries are responsible for delivering safe drinking water and treating wastewater, and are crucial to the health and well-being of the communities they serve. Without them, the nation could not function. Water is essential for life. Yet the grade given by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)…
These are going to be tough times for working people. Regardless of your party affiliation and allegiances, state and national activity point to a rough ride for those of us who get up, go to work, put in an honest day’s work and hope to return home to our family safely. Despite the rhetoric we’ve…
On December 1, 2016, UWUA Local 555 members overwhelmingly ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with NextEra at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire. The new agreement provides the roughly 200 members with great general wage increases, health care improvements, and other hard fought enhancements to their contract. The new agreement also provides job…
Once again, we have voted for another president to lead the United States of America. Those of us who voted for Clinton must lick our wounds and focus on what lies ahead. Holding Trump accountable In the midst of troubling times, we often look for simple answers to complex questions. Trump won, in part, because…
Many Americans are reeling after the results of the presidential election. Good, bad or indifferent, we must press forward and onward regardless of the outcome. It is clear that we as union brothers and sisters have a lot of work ahead of us, educating others on the importance of not forfeiting their right to vote!…
Just as the UWUA has fought for safe, clean gas infrastructure in California through support of SB 887 and SB 1371, this fall the UWUA, working with labor and environmental partners at the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), took part in the release of a new report in Ohio and Pennsylvania showing that 50,000 jobs would be…
Voters took great risk when they chose to elect Donald Trump president. Candidate Trump said many things during the campaign, and citizen Trump did many things in his life, that would have knocked him out of the race at any other time in the history of our nation. Yet, voters are fed up enough with…