Member to Member Precinct Walk Campaign Kick-off Kate Marshall for Congress 2nd Congressional District Date: Saturday, August 27th Location: Labor Temple 1819 Hymer Ave Sparks, NV 89431 Time: 9:00am — 2:00pm **Kate Marshall will join us at 9:15am** Remember Special Election September 13th Early Vote August 27th — September 9th Questions, or to volunteer for a phone… [Read More]
Archives for August 2011
PG&E Recruiting Linemen: Meetings Set
PG&E RECRUITING LINEMEN: MEETINGS SET IN SACRAMENTO, REDDING, TURLOCK Pacific Gas & Electric is recruiting journeymen linemen and has dozens of positions available. Local 1245 journeymen linemen with an interest in PG&E may want to consider attending one of the upcoming meetings, which are co-hosted by IBEW Local 1245. Upcoming meetings are listed below:… [Read More]
PG&E Jobs: Clerical, Physical, Technical
SKILLED PG&E JOBS: CLERICAL / PHYSICAL / TECHNICAL Career opportunities are opening up at PG&E for both permanent and temporary work. Follow this link to begin your search for jobs at PG&E. Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Women, minorities, individuals… [Read More]
Canvassing Wisconsin with Tattoos
WISCONSIN RECALL: Local 1245 member Lloyd Cargo offers first-hand account Working District 14 during the Wisconsin re-call campaign are, from left, Lloyd Cargo IV, Eric Sunderland, Erika Barron and Graciela Nunez. In late July, Local 1245 dispatched eight members to assist in the Wisconsin campaign to recall six legislators who voted to eliminate collective bargaining… [Read More]
Retiree Ad Invites Satre to Meet
The Reno/Sparks chapter of IBEW Local 1245 Retirees’ Club took out a full page ad in the Aug. 11 Reno Gazette-Journal inviting NV Energy Chairman Philip Satre to meet with them to discuss the company’s decision to slash health benefits for retirees. “As first responders, we have dedicated our lives to our communities and to NV Energy,”… [Read More]
Retirees Ad Text
FROM THE MEN AND WOMEN OF NV ENERGY Dear Mr. Satre, As first responders, we have dedicated our lives to our communities and to NV Energy. Many of us have risked life and limb to provide Nevada with safe and reliable power, doing dangerous work on gas and electric lines in the heat of summer… [Read More]
Wisconsin Recall Yields Mixed Results
WISCONSIN: VOTERS RECALL TWO ANTI-UNION INCUMBENTS, BUT UNION SUPPORTERS FALL ONE SEAT SHORT OF REGAINING SENATE MAJORITY Unions and their supporters succeeded in recalling two anti-union Wisconsin state senators who had voted earlier this year to repeal collective bargaining rights for public workers. But the nationally-watched recall effort fell one seat short of knocking… [Read More]
Briefing Warned of Pipeline Risk
The following story by Jaxon Van Derbeken was published Aug. 7, 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s top officials were warned two months before the San Bruno pipeline explosion that gaps in the utility’s gas system records, upkeep and emergency response plan created an “unacceptable risk” of a disaster, documents… [Read More]
McCauley: Union Through and Through
“A UNION MAN THROUGH AND THROUGH” JIM McCAULEY, 1940-2011 Jim McCauley was no stranger to controversy. “Jim was a real hell-raiser,” said Ed Vallejo, who served with McCauley on the Local 1245 Advisory Council and PG&E negotiating committees in the 1970s. McCauley, who died July 4 after a long battle with cancer, ruffled plenty more… [Read More]
Utility Reporter, Website Win Awards
LOCAL 1245 NEWSPAPER, WEBSITE WIN AWARDS The Utility Reporter story on the contract organizing campaign during Clerical negotiations at PG&E won first place for Best Organizing Story in the 2011 labor journalism awards sponsored by the International Labor Communications Association. The story, “Everyone Showed Up,” showed how solidarity and activism among the Clerical workforce–including… [Read More]