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Archives for September 2012

Willie Brown Praises Our Road Warriors

Willie Brown, the legendary speaker of the California Assembly and mayor of San Francisco, praised the efforts of IBEW Local 1245 “road warriors” at a Sept. 19 rally to kick off the union’s campaign to defeat Proposition 32 this fall. The anti-union ballot measure, funded by out-of-state extremists including the oil billionaire Koch brothers, masquerades… [Read More]

Gridley Pact Ratified By Large Margin

Local 1245 members on a vote of 17-1 ratified a new Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Gridley on Sept. 26. The MOU was agreed to by the City Council on Sept. 17. The MOU provides a 9% wage increases over 2 years. The city had proposed a 1% lump sum, which the union… [Read More]

Oakland Unit has new location (again)

Unit 2311, Oakland, has moved (again). The new location is Roundtable Pizza, 2651-H Blanding Ave., in Alameda. The date will remain the first Tuesday of each month. The start time remains 4:45 pm. Thanks for everyone’s patience on the recent changes–we had a direct split in the voting block but all pulled together for a new… [Read More]

High Heat Complicates Work

Everyone was hot and cranky A day in the life of a Troubleman   PG&E Troubleman Dan Mayo, a member of the Local 1245 Advisory Council, offers an account of how heat can change a job. At work, the heat adds hours to jobs that would not normally take as long. Yesterday (August 11) we had to… [Read More]

Sacramento Bee: Vote No on Prop.32

This editorial was published Sept. 23 by the Sacramento Bee editorial board Once again, Californians are being asked to diminish unions’ power by restricting their ability to raise campaign money. Once more, initiative promoters are trying to mislead voters by claiming to offer campaign finance reform. But just as they did in 1998 and 2005,… [Read More]

Appointments: April-Sept

CITY OF REDDING 2012 Bargaining Committee Mike Carnahan Chris Fleming Dave Guadagni Darryl Hughart Gary Moeckli Samuel Petty CITY OF ROSEVILLE 2012 Bargaining Committee Jeff Beaubier Brian Boyd Jeff Holt Mitch Prather Rick Thompson CITY OF SANTA CLARA 2012 Negotiating Committee David Coetzee Paul Manchester Dan Ryker John L. Sanders SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN IRRIGATION DISTRICT… [Read More]

Dalzell: Reasons For Hope

By Tom Dalzell, Business Manager There’s no denying that our union is facing some very serious challenges. But when I look at how our members have faced up to these challenges, I feel hope for our future. Line Clearance Tree Trimmers took a bold step forward in September by ratifying a new Master Agreement. This… [Read More]