Dedicated to Hector Aguirre L.U. 40 (em,i&mps), HOLLYWOOD, CAThe
members are very excited about the direction that our Bus. Mgr.
Rick DesJardins is taking. Our new IBEW Local 40 training center,
adjacent to the union hall, houses our newest state-of-the-art
electrical and electronic training equipment. By keeping up with
the most current technologies, our members will remain valuable
assets to our trade.
The new training center was dedicated to our late Bro. Hector
Aguirre, who was an apprentice-training instructor and a dedicated,
hard working member of Local 40. This training center stands as
a beacon to what Bro. Aguirre stood for, a proud American and a
supporting member of the IBEW.
Michael Courtois, P.S.
Linemen Graduate
Local 42, Hartford, CT, Bus. Mgr./Fin. Sec. Peter
Abrahamsen, standing fourth from right, and Safety Dir.
Norman Hebert, standing center, with recent lineman
graduates, standing from left, Timothy Duda, Eric
Peterson, Mark Benoit, Michael Dean, Jay Martz,
[Hebert], [Abrahamsen], James Redfern, Lon Lebel
and Richard Sank; seated from left, Lee Boulanger,
Mark Fusco, Alexis Lecours, Peter Lewis, David Mitchell,
Heath Gingras and Wayne Harrington, and kneeling
from left, Michael Treadwell, Daniel Hagen and Steve
Botti, II.
L.U. 42 (catv,em,govt,lctt,o&rtb), HARTFORD,
CTThe Local 42 semi-annual Journeyman Lineman Graduate Awards
Banquet was hosted by Local 42 Safety Dir. Norman Hebert and Local
42 Bus. Mgr./Fin. Sec. Peter Abrahamsen.
Special guests included Second Dist. Int. Vice Pres. Frank Carroll,
Int. Rep. Richard Panagrossi, NEAT Training Dir. Dave Walker, NEAT/Local
42 Sub-Committee member and Local 42 OSHE Trustees Thomas Bednarz,
James Henderson and Robert Winoski.
Eighteen Local 42 NEAT graduates were each presented with a special
wooden plaque, their official NEAT apprenticeship certificate and
a gold IBEW logo watch.
Peter Abrahamsen, B.M./F.S.
Gardner Elected L.U. 48 (c,em,i,rtb,rts&st), PORTLAND,
ORCongratulations to Vice Pres. Dan Gardner on his election to
the position of Oregon Labor Commissioner. Bro. Gardner will be
sworn into his new position in January of 2003.
Sister Marjorie Ramirez and her family, the Executive Committee,
Bus. Rep. Joe Esmond and the Picnic Committee put on a super local
picnic in July that was enjoyed by all! Good job, and thank you.
The work picture has not improved much and Oregon and Washington
still remain at or near the top of the unemployment percentages
in the country. Hopefully many of the pending jobs will start up
in the third and fourth quarter of this year.
Dave Jacobsen, P.S.
Seeking Your Help L.U. 58 (em,i,rtb&spa), DETROIT, MIOn
November 5, we will again have the opportunity to change the face
of politics in the state of Michigan. Term limits have caused legislators
to jockey for position.
The Republican controlled Senate and House of Representatives
have done all they can under John Engler to destroy the rights
of working families.
We are again seeking your help. Please be sure that you, your
families and friends are registered to vote. Contact your City
Clerks office for an application or to confirm you are registered.
You can help by working on a candidates campaign, the polls on
Election Day, lawn signs, attending candidate rallies and by voting
on Election Day. Contact the hall for other ways to help.
Jim Deluca,
Bus. Rep./PAC Chair
Congratulations, Graduates
Local 60, San Antonio, TX, apprenticeship graduating class.
L.U. 60 (i), SAN ANTONIO, TXAt this writing,
work is still slow but appears to be picking up. The new SBC Center
is expected to finish on schedule.
Congratulations to the recent graduating apprentices. They are
Richard Mendoza, Chris DeLaZerda, Ricardo Segura, Leonard DeBraska,
Justin Hummel, Albert Guzman, Christopher Rogers, James Metcalf,
George Semanko, Daniel DeLeon, Roger Alonzo, Bryan Dutcher, David
Hudgens, J. R. Waddell, Joe Garcia, Juan Romero, Benjamin Miculka,
Steven Shephard, Micah Cords, Robert Hogg (Apprentice-of-the-Year),
Gregory Groesbeck, Bradley Wachsmuth, Julian "Ronnie" Mattes,
Christopher McCort, Brian Wiese and Christopher Adelman.
No one has heard of any members who suffered any major damage
from the floods that occurred in July. Clean up continues and damage
is expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Allen Vajdos, P.S.
Ongoing STP Negotiations
Local 66, Houston, TX,
member and Reliant
Energy shareholder
Mike D. Langston
demonstrates at the
Reliant Energy Annual
Shareholders meeting
in June.
L.U. 66 (o,t&u), HOUSTON, TXOn June 5, several
employee shareholders and I attended the Reliant Energy Annual
Shareholders Meeting. The predominant reasons for attending included
the South Texas Project (STP) Nuclear Plant negotiations, the demise
of company labor relations and the "round-trip" trades
disclosed by Reliant Resources. Approximately 100 Local 66 members,
along with Harris County AFL-CIO union affiliate members, demonstrated
in front of Reliant Energy during the meeting.
The STP Nuclear Plant negotiations have been ongoing for more
than 20 months. The major stumbling block is the use of nonunion
contractors.
Labor relations have been set back 27 years to 1976, when the
first and only strike lasted 109 days. Reliant Energy has shuffled
management, put new personnel in charge and undercut 108 years
of mutual respect.
Round-trip trades were disclosed in May and involve buying and
selling the same amount of energy to inflate trading volumes and
revenues during 1999, 2000 and 2001.
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