IBEW 1245 member Dorine Fabing and her husband, IBEW 1245 retiree Mark Fabing, organized their 12th annual Brice Fabing Memorial Bikes 4 Kids drive in December of 2018. The drive is in memory of their son, Brice, who died in 2005 at the age of 17. Thanks to the Fabings’ tireless fundraising efforts, this year’s… [Read More]
Archives for December 2018
At Utility Gas Conference, California Gas Workers Unite to Face Challenges Ahead
Approximately 30 union members from across the state participated in the fourth annual California Utility Gas Workers conference, which took place in Palm Springs in mid-December. Members from IBEW 1245, ESC Local 20, IBEW Local 465, and UWUA Locals 132, 483, and 522 attended the two-day conference, which was geared towards strengthening the coalition between… [Read More]
San Francisco Unit Meeting Date Change for January
Unit #2412, San Francisco, has moved its January unit meeting to the 9th. The time and location will remain the same. –Roberto Balistreri, IBEW 1245 Business Rep
Local 1245 Members at NV Energy Support Evelyn Mount’s Annual Food Drive
For the past decade, IBEW 1245 members at NV Energy have been providing support — in both money and time — to the Evelyn Mount Community Outreach Program’s food pantry as well as the annual holiday food drive. This year, the members, in conjunction with the company, raised more than $7,000 for the food drive…. [Read More]
IBEW 1245 Demonstrates Support for CARB’s Innovative Clean Transit Regulation
On Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, three IBEW 1245 organizing stewards joined with IBEW representatives from locals all across California to express their support for the state’s landmark Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) proposal at a hearing before the California Air Resources Board (CARB). “The regulation will mandate zero emissions of all public transit throughout the state by… [Read More]
Local 1245 Welcomes Temporary Vegetation Management Workers Into the Union / El Local 1245 la da la bienvenida al sindicato, a los trabajadores temporales para el control de la vegetación
desplácese hacia abajo para español When PG&E launched its Accelerated Wildfire Risk Reduction plan in September of 2018, upwards of 1,500 line clearance tree workers from 29 different contractors flooded in to IBEW 1245’s jurisdiction to begin work on the massive project, which involves clearing all vegetation within 12 feet of the conductor on more… [Read More]
Letter Agreement 18-30: 401k Changes
PG&E 2019 Special Rates and Shift Premiums
On EWMC’s International Day of Service, Local 1245 Members Help the Homeless
IBEW’s Electrical Workers Minority Caucus (EWMC) Solano Chapter commemorated EWMC’s Fourth Annual International Day of Service in November at three different community service activities across the Local’s jurisdiction. In Sacramento, IBEW 1245 Staff Organizer Rene Cruz Martinez coordinated the EWMC volunteer effort at Loaves and Fishes, an organization committed to feeding the hungry and housing the… [Read More]