Local 193 residential wireman Jamie
Stowers staffs the IBEW/NECA +5 booth
at the Springfield Area Home Builders
Associations annual home show at the
Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield.
L.U.
193 (i,lctt,o,rts,spa&u), SPRINGFIELD, ILIn February
the spotlight was on our residential contractors at the Springfield
Area Home Builders Associations annual home show. For the first
time, we had a booth set up at the show to inform the home building
public of the benefit of utilizing union electricians for their
projects. We were proud to promote the +5 Quality Assurance program
and our union residential contractors: A/C Scott Electric, Alpha
Electric, Carmean Electric, Egizii Electric, Hohimer Electric, PAC
Electric, Trapp Electric and TR Electric.
This is a busy spring for our negotiating teams, with our inside
branch, Sangamon County Central Dispatch and our members at St.
Johns Hospital all opening up their contracts.
We will also be attending a lot of parties for our members retiring
from City Water, Light and Power. The city-owned utility offered
an early retirement incentive last fall and it was very well received.
Best of luck to all our recently retired brothers.
Local 223s Apprentice Graduating
Class of 2003,
joined by JATC Dir. Gregg Rego (back row, left) and
Instructor Charley Palmieri (back row, right).
Graduates are, from left, front row, Erica Followill,
Brendan Edson, Michael Mederios and Kevin Gatulis;
back row, second from left, Ryan Hartly, William
Cann and Sean Rogan.
L.U.
223 (em,govt&i), BROCKTON, MACongratulations to the
Local 223 apprentice graduating class. The graduates five years
of effort are a testimony to their commitment to the betterment
of the industry and our Brotherhood.
At this writing, work in our area is in the typical New England
winter slowdown, but the work picture is expected to recover quite
well as the weather improves. Brayton PT power station is scheduled
to start several large projects soon that will greatly improve our
environment.
The national Building Trades have endorsed John Kerry as the Democratic
presidential candidate and we strongly urge all members to get out
and vote for labor-friendly candidates.
Attending a Davis Besse labor/management
meeting are, from left: Local 245 Maintenance
Steward Bill Mata; Greg Walters, steward;
Bus. Mgr. Larry Tscherne; Ray Zychowicz,
chief steward; Lew Myers, chief operating
officer (FENOC); and Rudy Martin, Health
Physics steward.
L.U.
245 (govt,lctt,o,rtb&u), TOLEDO, OHOn Feb. 16, 2002,
the Davis-Besse nuclear plant was shut down for what was to be a
normal 34-day refueling outageuntil a cavity was discovered in
the reactor head. This whole new set of problems made the normal
day-to-day labor/management problems seem rather trivial, as our
very existence was now at stake.
The only way to survive was to work together, not an easy process
with the number of management changes and the constantly changing
plant conditions. But labor and management stayed linked together
at the top, ultimately resolving these issues one at a time.
The result of this relationship are standing meetings at four different
levels of managementdirector, plant manager, site vice president
and chief operating officer levels.
Also for the first time in the history of the plant, the union
has a seat on the Senior Training Council, with the chief steward
serving as the unions representative. The bottom line is this relationship
contributed heavily to the NRC granting the plant restart permission
on February 2004, ending a 24-month outage.
[Editors Note: The discovery of the reactor head corrosion at
Davis-Besse spurred action throughout the nuclear generation industry.
This resulted in timely detection of the same type corrosion, although
to lesser degrees, at the nuclear facilities of other leading generating
companies.]
Change of shift at the Local
269 Dominion Co-
Gen power plant construction project.
L.U.
269 (i&o), TRENTON, NJThe Dominion Co-Gen power plant
in Morrisville, PA, has been under construction since the spring
of 2002. It is being constructed on a 45-acre plot at the old USX
Fairless Hills steel plant.
This power plant has four natural gas-fired turbines that will
produce electrical power. The exhaust from the gas turbines will
heat enough water to create high-pressure steam. That high-pressure
stem will have enough energy to drive two steam turbine generators,
which will also create electrical power. The co-gen plant will have
the capability of producing 1,158 megawatts of electrical power.
At the peak of employment, more than 300 electricians were on the
jobsite, along with 1,200 other tradesmen. S.M. Electric had the
underground work in the early going, and Bogan Electric has the
above ground.
We had many traveling members working on the jobsite. They brought
with them countless years of experience and good quality craftsmanship.
Hats off to all of my brothers and sisters from Local 269 who have
all of these qualities and put in many long days and nights. Their
expertise and leadership built a success.
Proudly displaying their Local
271 service awards
are, from left: Robert Bob Adams, Harold
Dooling, Melvin Redburn and Kenneth Sailor.
L.U.
271 (i,rtb,rts&spa), WICHITA, KSAt an awards presentation
held in December 2003, Local 271 recognized a number of long-term
members for their dedicated service to the local. Several of those
honored are pictured in the accompanying photo: 50-year member Robert
Bob Adams and 55-year members Harold Dooling, Melvin Redburn and
Kenneth Sailor.
Also receiving recognition, but not present for the photo, were
50-year members Jimmy Lemon, Klepper Scott, and Michael Sullivan;
and 55-year members Claude Reheis, Joseph Stemas and Ronald Mc Clelland.
All of these members deserve to be commended for their proud and
loyal years of long service for the IBEW.
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