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NM Local 51 Wins Arbitration Reinstating City Employee, Sets Stage for City Elections Local 51 started off the New Year with some great news when a neutral arbitrator ruled in the union’s favor in a case involving UWUA member Armondo Rosales, who was unfairly terminated by the City of Roswell, New Mexico a year ago.…
Utility and Communications Workers Join to Fight for Union Jobs and Member Safety Rapid expansion in the communications industry over the last few decades has resulted in utility poles burdened to an ever greater degree with much more than just electric power lines. Phone companies, cable television, mobile communications providers, and more, have added their…
Canada Hydro Power Competition Triggers TAA Benefits for Brayton Point Workers When Dynegy announced the closing of Brayton Point, the largest coal-fired power plant in New England, the National Union and Local 464 fought hard to keep it open. After the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected their argument that the company’s decision resulted from…
Local 393 Wins Right to Conduct Union Orientations for New Hires Suffolk County Water Authority workers, members of Local 393, recently won contract language that guarantees the local the right to meet with new hires and welcome them with a union orientation. In today’s workplace, a new hire is often told by management that the…
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 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…
Fires and Floods Highlight Work of CA Members as First Responders While UWUA members continued their rebuilding efforts on hurricane devastated Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, California was hit with wildfires and flashfloods. The growth in the severity of storms is shining a light on the role of utility workers as first responders. When…
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…
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…
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…