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VIDEO: “Competitive Challenges” – Managing Change in the Energy Industry

IBEW 1245 Business Manager Tom Dalzell lays out the many challenges facing our union as the energy industry evolves. From threats to our generation jobs to microgrids and the rise of new industry players, Dalzell gives a comprehensive overview of what we’re facing – and how we’re fighting back.

VIDEO: “Control the Pressure” – A Peer Safety Message for Gas Workers

//youtu.be/u8j6gehYbj0 IBEW 1245’s “Control the Pressure” Peer Safety Committee seeks to create a safety culture that motivates IBEW gas workers to promote safety through mutual support and protection on the job. Sometimes the pressures of the job, or simple inattention, may lead to cutting corners or creating a hazardous working condition. It is the responsibility… [Read More]

VIDEO: IBEW local 6 and NECA team up to make SF General Hospital earthquake-resistant

 This article below originally appeared on the AFL-CIO Innovation @Work website. The video originally appeared on ElectricTV.  //youtu.be/nOdyKNjN13I Eighty percent of San Francisco was leveled by a major earthquake in 1906. The magnitude 6.9 earthquake in 1989, caught on live television as the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants prepared for the third game of the World Series,… [Read More]

VIDEO: The next generation of IBEW activists

  //youtu.be/P-_GS0E0L4A It’s a problem every union faces. How do you motivate and mobilize the younger generation of union members to grow the labor movement. Here’s one IBEW local that’s doing a bang up job of it. VIDEO CREDIT: IBEW International  

VIDEO: Opportunity For All — Erick Varela’s Story

//youtu.be/JfZ8MO8wSi4 President Obama is calling on companies across the country to give long-term unemployed Americans a fair shot, and help connect them to good jobs. Erick Varela was an unemployed veteran who got back on his feet thanks to a IBEW 1245 and a 16-week job-training program at Pacific Gas and Electric. VIDEO CREDIT: WhiteHouse.gov

VIDEO: NV Energy Crew Competes at National Gas Rodeo

IBEW 1245 members at NV Energy competed in the recent National Gas Rodeo in Fairview Heights, IL. The team was selected following a competition with other NV Energy workers in a series of timed events. They built a typical residential meter set, installed a gas service, connected it to a gas main and capped it;… [Read More]

VIDEO: NV Energy Tentative Agreement

View the NV Energy_Tentative Agreement with Redlines_2013-2017 //youtu.be/bY0iyTB8RtQ Business Manager Tom Dalzell discusses what’s at stake in the upcoming ratification vote on the NV Energy Tentative Agreement. DATE UPLOADED: 10/5/13 CREDIT: IBEW 1245 Media