From the Winter 2014 issue

FirstEnergy continues lockout despite massive winter storms

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…