On December 1, 2016, UWUA Local 555 members overwhelmingly ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with NextEra at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire. The new agreement provides the roughly 200 members with great general wage increases, health care improvements, and other hard fought enhancements to their contract. The new agreement also provides job…
Once again, we have voted for another president to lead the United States of America. Those of us who voted for Clinton must lick our wounds and focus on what lies ahead. Holding Trump accountable In the midst of troubling times, we often look for simple answers to complex questions. Trump won, in part, because…
Many Americans are reeling after the results of the presidential election. Good, bad or indifferent, we must press forward and onward regardless of the outcome. It is clear that we as union brothers and sisters have a lot of work ahead of us, educating others on the importance of not forfeiting their right to vote!…
Just as the UWUA has fought for safe, clean gas infrastructure in California through support of SB 887 and SB 1371, this fall the UWUA, working with labor and environmental partners at the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), took part in the release of a new report in Ohio and Pennsylvania showing that 50,000 jobs would be…
Voters took great risk when they chose to elect Donald Trump president. Candidate Trump said many things during the campaign, and citizen Trump did many things in his life, that would have knocked him out of the race at any other time in the history of our nation. Yet, voters are fed up enough with…
“It is exciting to see the continued commitment that the UWUA and our fund employers have towards making sure the workers have the skills needed to do the work,” said P4A Executive Director Jon Harmon. High schools and vocational centers could be next Over the year, P4A provided much needed job specific skills to 375…
Water With Congress in flux as the new year approaches, much is being heard about the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), as well as funding to help pay for repairs to the water infrastructure in Flint, Michigan. While prospects are always uncertain in a ‘lame duck,’ session of Congress, many in Washington remain optimistic that…
UWUA leaders recently hosted a meeting with a delegation of 24 trade unionists from the Chubu region of Japan – all officers of Japanese electric power workers union Denryoku-Soren. Like UWUA, Denryoku-Soren is an affiliate of IndustriALL, a global union federation that unites unions representing 50 million workers in energy, mining, manufacturing, and related industries…
Brian Butler, Vice President Local 604 “I expect trade agreements that will protect and keep American jobs from going overseas. I expect reduced regulation that will allow American businesses and industry to compete in the world markets. And, I expect that he will treat other countries in the world the same way they treat America.”…
On January 1, California will take another major step to reduce methane leaks from storage facilities and pipelines. That’s the day legislation, SB 887, becomes state law. UWUA Local 483, with the support of sister Locals 132 and 522, was instrumental in drafting and passing the law that will create good paying jobs for utility…
With the election behind us, now is the time for the country as a whole, and UWUA members in particular, to come together to heal whatever wounds were caused by the most contentious presidential campaign in our lifetime. No matter how we voted and what our beliefs are, we all need to be tolerant of each other, respect…
What’s happening with deregulation in the states you cover? Rich Cossell (National Representative, Region III) – We are experiencing the effects of deregulation in Ohio with FirstEnergy and AEP. And in Pennsylvania, there’s discussion about restructuring, or re-regulating, because there has been a tremendous amount of generation assets shut down or sold off to private…
Throughout this election year, we were listening to many messages from many different candidates from several different political parties. Through all of those messages, Donald Trump emerged as the victor, in what could be called the most contentious election in our lifetime. With all of the accusations (some true, some false) that were traded back…