Archives for December 2014

For San Franciscans who want truly green, local power, the city’s recent report on Community Choice Aggregation is two steps forward and one dangerous step back. The good news is: The report proves that, contrary to the long-held opinions of several members of the Board of Supervisors, hiring Shell Oil subsidiary Shell Energy North America to manage… [Read More]

After four years of college, Mike Haentjens dropped out and became a ditch digger for PG&E. “I wasn’t much in school,” he explains. “I liked eating and drinking and having some money rather than being a poor starving college student all the time.” Nearly 40 years later Haentjens is retiring as an IBEW 1245 Assistant… [Read More]

Mike Jessen, a 23-year IBEW member and Electric Compliance Inspector (Lineman) who works at PG&E, has been unanimously appointed to the IBEW 1245 Executive Board. Jessen was initiated into Local 1245 in June of 1991. He has represented the DeSabla Division of PG&E on the union’s Advisory Council since 2007, and has served as a… [Read More]

  The annual All Sandoval Memorial College Scholarship contest is now open for 2015. The purpose of this contest is to provide a grant in aid for scholarships to colleges and junior colleges, thereby making financial assistance toward the attainment of a higher education. The grant will be as follows: Two thousand five hundred dollars… [Read More]