Record year Organizing played key role By Ron Cochran 2011 was a record year for work: 191% above the five-year average. There was a lot of work and there was also a tremendous amount of organizing of non-union contractors and adding new members to the IBEW. A lot of credit goes to Business Manager Tom… [Read More]
Archives for April 2012
Roseville: new voting results
Update: City of Roseville Agreement On Wednesday April 18, 2012 IBEW 1245 Business Representative Charley Souders held a membership vote at the City of Roseville for the union’s recently negotiated table agreement. The Local 1245 membership at Roseville voted 100 to 16 in favor of the terms of the new 1-year package. Business Representative Souders… [Read More]
30-day cooling-off period declared
Union, PG&E agree to “cooling off” period IBEW Local 1245 and PG&E negotiators met in Vacaville on Friday, April 20, with a federal mediator present to continue bargaining for Physical and Benefits agreements. When it appeared that an agreement was beyond reach and that negotiations would break off, the mediator asked the parties to agree… [Read More]
California Labor Fed Unveils Jobs Plan
By Art Pulaski Years of budget cuts and shortsighted political decisions have hollowed out our state’s economy. More than 2 million workers are still unemployed. Workers’ wages are shrinking, even as CEOs paychecks get fatter. People no longer have money in their pockets to support local businesses. Yes, California has taken more than its share… [Read More]
New Jobs Plan promoted by CA
To Create Good Jobs, We Must Invest in California Art Pulaski is Executive Sec.-Treas. of the California Labor Federation, which represents over two million California workers. By Art Pulaski Years of budget cuts and shortsighted political decisions have hollowed out our state’s economy. More than 2 million workers are still unemployed. Workers’ wages are… [Read More]
Change in referral procedures
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New unit in Manteca
New unit begins to meet in Manteca Unit 2510, Manteca, is a new unit that will meet on the third Wednesday of the month, starting April 18. Meeting start time is 5 p.m. Meet location (for at least the next three months) will be the Manteca Moose Lodge, 1185 N. Main St. in Manteca…. [Read More]
Oak. Physical – new meeting location
Oakland Physical unit meeting change Unit 2311, Oakland Physical, has a new meeting location: The Moose Lodge Hall, 690 Hegenberger Road, in Oakland. The time remains 4:45 pm and the dates will remain the same. This is a permanent change. Lou Mennel, Business Representative
PG&E mediated negotiations
PG&E, union meet for mediated negotiations Negotiators for Local 1245 and PG&E met on April 12 and 13 to resume contract bargaining. A federal mediator attended the negotiations. PG&E came into the negotiations on April 12 with a proposal, and the union offered a counter-proposal that afternoon. On April 13 the company said it needed… [Read More]
3 Reasons To Expand Civil Rights Act
By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit Wednesday marks the 44th anniversary of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn., where he’d gone to support a strike by black sanitation workers. In talking with the strikers, King suggested they were “going beyond purely civil rights questions to questions of human rights”… [Read More]