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The UWUA is entering the last year of a five-year federal grant, obtained through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). NIEHS has focused the grant on hazard awareness and emergency preparation because it recognizes the need for workers to be involved with the changing climate of natural and manmade disasters. Creating a safe…
FirstEnergy is continuing a vicious lockout of 142 UWUA members at its Penelec utility in central Pennsylvania, even as winter storm systems sweep across the northeastern U.S., knocking out electric power for hundreds of thousands of families. The Akron, Ohio-based company locked out the members of UWUA Local 180 – a branch unit of System…