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1245 Members Protest Against Fast-Tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership

1245 members were out in force on April 9 outside Congressman Ami Bera’s Sacramento office to protest the proposed ‘fast-tracking’ of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement that has been described by many as a power grab by big corporations. It is currently supported by the President and several members of Congress. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth… [Read More]

CFT: “Electrical workers unleash organizing stewards for social justice”

This piece was written by staff for the California Federation of Teachers, and appeared in their most recent newsletter.  How does a new PG&E worker like Nilda Garcia become an organizer traveling the nation to fight
for social justice? Garcia is one of a group of “organizing stewards” that has ignited passion in her union, the… [Read More]

Tom Dalzell Receives “Organizing for Young Workers” Award from Sacramento Central Labor Council

IBEW 1245 Business Manager Tom Dalzell received the coveted “Organizing for Young Workers” Award at the Sacramento Central Labor Council’s annual “Salute to Labor” Awards Dinner on Thursday, March 5. According to the Awards Dinner Program, Shortly after being elected as IBEW 1245’s chief officer in 2006, Dalzell began to systematically incorporate younger members into the structure… [Read More]

IBEW 1245 Joins AFL-CIO Organizing Institute Conference

IBEW 1245 Organizing Stewards Pam Pendleton and Rodrigo Flores and staff organizers Fred Ross and Eileen Purcell joined 700 organizers in Washington DC at a national conference sponsored by the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute. The group took advantage of the opportunity to share details of Local 1245’s successful organizing steward program and its emphasis on intergenerational leadership… [Read More]

Organizing Stewards Featured on AFL-CIO Blog

At Northern California’s large Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1245, three dozen new “organizing stewards” in the class of 2015 have big plans for the coming year, says Eric Sunderland. Without a major election on the calendar, he says: “We should be able to do some serious movement-building this year.” Started about 18 months ago, the… [Read More]

Organizing Stewards Gear Up for an Action-Packed Year in 2015

by Rebecca Band IBEW 1245’s ground-breaking “Organizing Steward” program has only been in effect for 18 months, but it’s already making a remarkable difference in the culture of activism in the union. “We stood with teachers on strike in Medford, Oregon.  We provided bilingual organizers to the Teamsters in two hard fought organizing campaigns. We… [Read More]

Pitching Hope: Doing Democracy the Old-Fashioned Way

Article by Eric Wolfe Photos by IBEW 1245 campaigners In an election where endless political attack ads were selling cynicism and fear, IBEW 1245 members were on the ground offering something even more important than victory. They were pitching hope. Hope that ordinary citizens can make a difference, hope that politics can save the middle… [Read More]

Strategic Action Helps Defend IBEW 1245 Members in November Election

IBEW 1245 organizing stewards helped carry several candidates across the finish line in the Nov. 4 General Election, demonstrating that strategic political action can defend working families even in an election where corporate candidates won most of the battles nationally. Successful negotiations in the public sector can get ugly fast when the wrong people sit… [Read More]

Members Help Get Out the Vote in Redding

For IBEW 1245 members who work for the City of Redding, local elections can make a huge difference – not just in the way their city is governed, but also in the way their union contracts are negotiated. In the last election cycle, a pro-worker candidate for City Council lost by just eight votes, and… [Read More]