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JD started a family tradition when, at the age of 18, he followed in his father’s footsteps and became a lineman working out of IBEW Local 1319. After an extended time there, JD, who had already married his high school sweat heart, Jen George, found a new job with the Borough of Ellwood City, PA,…
“I dig in the dirt, fix water mains and stuff like that every day, I’m a union worker,” says Rick Dunham, chair of the Local 428 Safety Committee at Aqua Ohio. “I’ll be the first to say that I was skeptical about the participation we would have in our Systems of Safety training classes. I’m…
Local 18007 and Power for America (P4A) are continuing their partnership to raise awareness of struck-by and caught in-between hazards. Using funding secured by P4A from an OSHA Susan Harwood grant, 18007 members over the summer participated in peer-led discussions with the goal of raising awareness of these hazards in the daily workplace. “The commitment…
P4A on Track for Record Setting Training Year 2017 continues to be a record-setting year for trainings at the UWUA’s Power for America Training Trust (P4A). As of July 1, P4A had trained over 2,000 UWUA members. “We are on target to train 5,000 UWUA members by the end of the year,” said P4A Executive…
Fighting for Good Jobs and Strong Communities Community is something we all strive to be a part of. It is a term that has come to embody concepts both mythical and aspirational in today’s increasingly post-industrial America. Many of us recall a time when we felt a greater sense of being part of a larger…
CN Local 470-1 Inks Contracts with PSEG and Avangrid It’s been a productive period at Local 470-1, which represents members in electric generation and distribution in Connecticut. Two new contracts covering both groups protect jobs, raise wages, and preserve benefits. Negotiations on the distribution side of the local were with Avangrid, which is owned by…
Following an internal organizing campaign to increase the power of the local by activating members and mobilizing politically, UWUA Local 51 recently secured gains in a 2017 wage reopener. “In 2016, the City of Roswell claimed poverty and refused to provide any increases in wages,” UWUA Local 51 President Patrick Lopez explains. “We decided to…
Two More Organizing Wins for Water Workers The UWUA continues to build on a string of organizing victories bringing the benefits of a union contract to more and more water workers. Welcome Belmont County, OH Sanitary Sewer District members On August 25, the decision by Belmont County Sanitary Sewer District employees to join the UWUA…
Doing Our Part for Safety On the job injuries, illnesses and deaths go largely unnoticed, except to the victim, and those family members and co-workers who are directly impacted. Each day, 13 people are killed on the job because of hazardous working conditions. They leave their home, go to work and don’t go home to…