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Speaking Out

John Daly, Nuclear Executive Board – VP  Pilgrim Local 369 “UWUA President Mike Langford said it best, ‘We are the safest, most productive, highest skilled workers in the world.’ Local 369 members at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station are some of the most highly motivated workers in the nuclear industry.  We have spent a large portion of…

Job-Saving Wins Set Stage for Upcoming Contract Talks

Job-Saving Wins Set Stage for Upcoming Contract Talks Four Local 132 members’ jobs were recently saved, thanks to successive arbitration victories won by the local’s leadership. An arbitrator found Edwin Riley, Frank Zavala, Simon Mendoza, and Juan Torres were wrongfully terminated and they have either returned to work or are in the process of doing…

President’s Message – The Year Ahead

The Year Ahead! This year is shaping up to be another blockbuster year for the UWUA. Our signature theme of Reclaim, Retrain, Repower, and Repair America is resonating with government officials, employers, industry regulators, and the public. We have positioned ourselves to make the most of what 2018 has to offer. Foremost is President Trump’s…

Safety Corner

We are the Safest, Most Productive, Highest Skilled Workers While on my visit to a Local 1-2 System of Safety class at the Con Ed Learning Center in Queens, NY, I stopped at a work site and observed the members of Local 1-2’s Construction Services Group working on a new gas transmission project in the…

National Vice President’s Report

While my last report covered this same subject, most of the detail of the Republican tax plan had not yet come to light. Since that time, both the House and the Senate passed the legislation and will now be working to reconcile the differences between the two tax plans. As I pointed out in my…

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Our National Funds Deliver! Recent collective bargaining victories by two UWUA locals will soon bring lower-cost benefit coverage to members. Local 197 members in Coos Bay, Oregon, who work for PacifiCorp, and Local 369 members in North Weymouth, Massachusetts, working for Calpine, took advantage of the UWUA’s National Health & Welfare Trust Fund (NH&WF) to…