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Executive Vice President’s Report

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT – Steven VanSlooten, Executive Vice President From Cradle to Grave, No One Works Nuclear Better! Our members have been responsible for safely operating and maintaining much of our nation’s fleet of nuclear power generation facilities since they went online more than half-a-century ago. With the so-called free market and the price…

Secretary-Treasurer’s Report

Implementing Our Training Objectives At our 75th National Convention in 2015, the Utility Workers Union of America laid out the guiding principles of our organization and we proudly proclaimed our theme: Reclaim, Retrain, Repower, and Repair America. At the convention, UWUA Delegates passed many constitutional amendments and resolutions. Our task moving forward is to implement…

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…