Following Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s call for the city to purchase PG&E’s equipment, Supervisor Hillary Ronen introduced legislation Tuesday to establish a Green New Deal Fund that would create a public utility independent of the monopoly. But the union representing 12,000 PG&E employees, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1245, says these options are the wrong way to go.
“We support public power, but just because you’re a publicly owned utility, that does not insulate you from making mistakes,” Tom Dalzell, the local union’s business manager, tells SF Weekly.