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Archives for February 2011

Dalzell: Corporate Takeover of Tea Party

February 28, 2011

THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF THE TEA PARTY By Tom Dalzell, Business Manager Brothers and Sisters: Wisconsin worries me. I hope that it worries you. Free societies have free unions.   Totalitarian societies don’t.  It is that simple.  Look at the historic role that unions played in freeing Poland in the 1980s.  At the time, President Reagan… [Read More]

VIDEO: IBEW 1245 Rallies to Support Wisconsin Workers

February 28, 2011

Union members rally in support of Wisconsin public workers on Feb. 26, 2011 in San Francisco. //youtu.be/tNLoLY5iH5o Local 1245 members rally in support of Wisconsin public workers on Feb. 22, 2011 in Sacramento. //youtu.be/OwJatxYTzks DATE UPLOADED:2/28/11 CREDIT: IBEW 1245 Media

CSI: Sometimes It’s Murder

February 24, 2011

By Eric Wolfe CSI. It’s a crime drama. Malfeasance. Mayhem. Murder. Then there’s the Local 1245 version of CSI, which isn’t about murder at all. Except when it is. Union founder Ron Weakley related this story to me in the fall of 2007, a few weeks before he died. It concerned the death benefit the… [Read More]

CSI: All Electronic Index is Ready

February 24, 2011

CSI. To most people CSI conjures up images of the popular TV crime drama where methodical Las Vegas investigators use physical evidence to solve grisly murders. Here at Local 1245, CSI means Contract Section Index rather than Crime Scene Investigation. But sometimes it feels like the same thing.  Union stewards are the investigators, and they… [Read More]

Who Contributes to Public Pensions?

February 24, 2011

The fact is that all of the money going into these plans belongs to the workers because it is part of the compensation of the state workers. The fact is that the state workers negotiate their total compensation, which they then divvy up between cash wages, paid vacations, health insurance and, yes, pensions. Since the… [Read More]

How to Win Grievances – en Español

February 23, 2011

  En un mundo ideal, cuando los empleadores hacen algo mal, simplemente lo admitir탭an y corregir탭an su error. Pero no vivimos en un mundo ideal. Cuando los delegados del sindicato escuchan u observan un comportamiento incorrecto por parte de los empleadores, no siempre es f탡cil saber por d탳nde comenzar. Esto puede ser particularmente cierto cuando… [Read More]

How to Win Grievances

February 23, 2011

In an ideal world, when employers do something wrong they would just come out and admit it and make things right. But we don’t live in an ideal world. When union stewards see or hear about bad behavior by employers, it’s not always easy to know where to start. This can be especially true when… [Read More]

Local 1245 Appointments Jan-Feb

February 23, 2011

LOCAL 1245 APPOINTMENTS     JANUARY 2011   CONFERENCES AND CONVENTIONS   IBEW Construction Conference Mike Cottrell Aaron Elmore Dean Evans   AFL-CIO Young Worker Advisory Council Lorenso Arciniega   FEBRUARY 2011   CONFERENCES AND CONVENTIONS   CLUW NEB Meeting and Leadership Development Academy Anna Bayless-Martinez Cecelia De La Torre Chris Habecker Natalia Jonas  … [Read More]

Machinists Need Support in Fairfield

February 23, 2011

MACHINISTS ON STRIKE IN FAIRFIELD COULD USE SOME SUPPORT   Machinists Union Local 1173 has been forced to strike against Steve Hopkins Honda/Acura in Fairfield, CA. They have been without a contract since April, 2010 (9 months)!  Management agreed to come to terms then has done nothing in the passing months to resolve this issue with… [Read More]

Tahoe Unit Now CalPeco Unit

February 23, 2011

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE UNIT HAS NEW NAME: CAL-PECO   Unit 3314, South Lake Tahoe, is now Unit 3314, CalPeco. The name change, approved by the Executive Board at its February meeting, is in response to CalPeco’s purchase of NV Energy’s California properties.  

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