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Services Set for TID’s Mike Wigt

A viewing and funeral services have been scheduled for Mike Wigt, a top step apprentice at Turlock Irrigation District who died on June 14 while working in an electrical panel at his house. The viewing will be June 17 from 2 to 7 p.m. Service will be June 18 at 10 a.m. The location for… [Read More]

Action Alert: Redding Jobs At Risk

IBEW Local 1245 members working at the Redding Convention Center could lose their jobs if the City of Redding moves ahead with a plan to close the center. The Redding City Council will decide on June 21 whether to save or kill the center. Please sign the on-line petition in support of keeping the convention center open…. [Read More]

Redding Charter City Plan Defeated

Local 1245 has won another round in the union’s on-going battle to protect the rights and jobs of its members at the City of Redding. The victory came on June 7, when the Redding City Council voted 3-2 to abandon efforts to establish Redding as a charter city. Some council members had focused on the… [Read More]

Public Sector Bargaining Round-Up

The on-going economic slump has made for rough going at the bargaining table at many public sector employers. Paradise Irrigation District negotiations, begun on May 27, have featured concessionary demands by the District in the neighborhood of 20%. The next meeting is scheduled for June 9.  An “all-hands” membership meeting is scheduled for June 16. AC… [Read More]

LMUD Members Ratify New Pact

On May 3, IBEW 1245 Assistant Business Manager Ray Thomas gave our members at Lassen Municipal a detailed review of the new tentative agreement. On May 9 IBEW 1245 Business Representatives Pat Waite and Randy Osborn held a membership vote. A strong majority of the members approved the terms of the new agreement. For over a… [Read More]

South Feather Pact Ratified

In August and September of  2010 the IBEW Local 1245 negotiating committee took proposals from the members within water treatment and distribution at South Feather Water and Power.  The union committee met with the District’s general manager in October and requested the agency to have Cal PERS perform an actuarial analysis regarding enhancements to the… [Read More]

Roseville LBF Recycles Old Proposals

The City and IBEW 1245 had a bargaining meeting on April 6, 2011, where the City presented IBEW 1245 a Last Best and Final proposal. The City’s proposal is very similar to what was rejected by the membership over a month ago 115-2. The highlights of the City’s Last Best and Final contain the following:… [Read More]

Public Unions Protest Public Services

The following address by Will Jones was delivered to a rally in Madison, WI on the 43rd Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination. Jones is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin Madison.   Some have suggested that history professors should not be speaking out about what is going on here in… [Read More]

Roseville’s Last Best Final Offer

By Al Fortier IBEW Local 1245 members at the City of Alameda ratified a tentative agreement for a one-year contract extension on March 21. The vote was 21-1. The one-year extension provides for 100% employer-paid medical coverage in the Kaiser and Blue Shield health plans. Union negotiating committee members Mark Regan and Fernando Morales were… [Read More]

RT Arbitration Decision Announced

IBEW Local 1245 and Sacramento Regional Transit held a two-day Interest Arbitration in Sacramento on March 8-9. The Arbitration decision was returned on March 25.  The Interest Arbitration hearing was held in “Med-Arb” fashion.  The decision includes 15 furlough days to be taken by March 31, 2013. The District and IBEW are currently discussing implementation of the… [Read More]