LOCAL 1245 APPOINTMENTS FOR JULY AND AUGUST FRONTIER Bargaining Committee Bill Bryan Bryan Coleman Tom Greer Eric Tanaka Kelly Willis PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC Review Committee James Brager CONFERENCES AND CONVENTIONS APALA Convention Anthony Chan Thanh Trach Coalition Of Labor Union Women Biennial Convention Donna Ambeau Anna Bayless Martinez Cecelia De La Torre Thelma Dixon… [Read More]
Archives for September 2011
PUCN Considers NVE Profit Level
This story by Cy Ryan appeared Sept. 5 in the Las Vegas Sun. The state Public Utilities Commission will start a hearing Oct. 4 on whether to increase or reduce the profit level of Nevada Power Company. The company has applied to the commission to boost its rate of return from 10.5 percent to… [Read More]
Safety Stewards tackle safety head-on
IBEW 1245 Safety Stewards
Door-to-Door Democracy in Wisconsin
Door-to-Door-Democracy-9-9-11
Robert Reich: Labor Day Lesson
By Robert Reich Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor — most of the rest of us — are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new… [Read More]
Dalzell: Big Challenges Nationally, Locally
BIG CHALLENGES NATIONALLY; EVEN BIGGER ONES LOCALLY By Tom Dalzell, Business Manager On the national front, the news for Local 1245 members and American workers is often depressing. The elite of the Republican Party, often fighting under the false flag of the tea party, barely miss a day without pressing their all-out attack on unions… [Read More]
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S LABOR DAY SPEECH – 2011
WASHINGTON — Less than a week ahead of a critical address before a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned defense of the labor movement and the benefits of union organizing to a fired up audience of Detroit workers. The tone of the Labor Day speech indicates advisers inside the White House… [Read More]
Bad News Bears Make History
Softball-Tournament-9-2-11
Feds Look at Cupertino Explosion
The following story by Jaxon Van Derbeken appeared Sept. 2, 2011 in the San Francisco Chronicle. CUPERTINO — Federal investigators are looking into the explosion of a leaky Pacific Gas and Electric Co. gas line that devastated a Cupertino condominium, officials said Thursday. It took PG&E crews about an hour and a half to cut… [Read More]
Dalzell on Huffington Post
TOM DALZELL IS NOW CONTRIBUTOR TO HUFFINGTON POST The Huffington Post has added Local 1245 Business Manager Tom Dalzell as a contributor. His first column appeared Sept. 2, 2011, at the beginning of Labor Day weekend. The head of any organization — whether it’s a union, a corporation or my daughter’s soccer league — will… [Read More]