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San Jose Mercury News
IBEW Hall, 6250 Village Parkway, Dublin. Admission is free/$3 donation appreciated, wheelchair accessible. A short discussion follows the film. 925-462-3459. These Amazing Shadows -- 7 pm, Sept. 15. The Pleasanton Library presents this award-winning ...

ABC Online
Welcome, union brothers and sisters
ABC Online
So, as a former card-carrying IBEW sister married to a proud former labourer, IBEW, and later USW member, please hear me out. What I have to say is for the hard working, patriotic, selfless union brothers and sisters in Michigan and throughout our ...

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Palin slams Hoffa for 'thuggery'
Politico
So, as a former card-carrying IBEW sister married to a proud former Laborers, IBEW, and later USW member, please hear me out. What I have to say is for the hard working, patriotic, selfless union brothers and sisters in Michigan and throughout our ...

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Unions hit hard try to enjoy Zion parade
Chicago Sun-Times
That's true, especially in construction, and Donald Carlson, IBEW business manager, said his members get no layoff pay. They have to save for when work dries up. “Unions should get the credit they deserve,” Carlson said. “Child labor laws, safety in ...

Lewiston Sun Journal
Hundreds turn out for union barbecue
Lewiston Sun Journal
Allan Shepard, president of IBEW Local 567, removes a batch of corn that is ready to be served as another, foreground, is ready to go into boiling water outside his union hall on Goddard Road in Lewiston on Monday afternoon. The corn was on the menu at ...

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Car Loan Rates Deal of the Day: City Public Service/Ibew Credit Union at 4.25% APR
Go Banking Rates
Make your search for an affordable car loan rate simple by stopping at City Public Service/Ibew Credit Union. Currently, the credit union is offering rates as low as 4.25% APR on new and used car loans. City Public Service/Ibew Credit Union is excited ...

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Obama losing ground with labor
Boston Herald
IBEW executive Jonathan Gardner warned that EPA red tape “directly would jeopardize the jobs of approximately 1500 IBEW members working at six different power plants across the state of Texas.” Gardner argued, “The shutdown of coal-fired units without ...

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Labor Day highlights in Maine
Bangor Daily News
The Western Maine Labor Council is hosting its annual free barbecue at the IBEW 567 Hall in Lewiston. A children's tent will include child care, balloons and face painting. • Some traditional labor events in the Bangor area are on hiatus this year, ...

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Union workers have Labor Day picnic
WLFI.com
The IBEW Local 157 presented Klinker with a check for $1400 to help pay for fines from the recent Democratic walkout. "I have a lot of friends here and I was very surprised that they had gathered together some dollars from the teachers and from some of ...

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State of the unions: Hiring halls are still necessary
Canton Repository
If there is no work locally, we get a letter of introduction from our business agent that we can take to any city in the USA that has a hall affiliated with the IBEW. We sign their “book,” and when there is a call for help, we have a job we are trained ...

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Labor Day is more than parades and telethons.
WJBC News
He served as president and vice president of IBEW Local 1469 and was a member of IBEW Local 15. He was all union. Today I would have loved to talk to him about the state of labor, but dad passed away four years ago. But I did have the opportunity to ...

'Stand and fight,' Michiganians told
Michigan Citizen
25 at the IBEW Hall, looked at the effect of legislation forced through the Michigan State Legislature and signed by Gov. Rick Snyder that will cause over ten thousand Michigan families to lose welfare assistance. The retroactive law enforces a strict ...

Fifty Thousand Friends: Union Organizing On Facebook
Huffington Post (blog)
Last year, the union I represent -- IBEW Local 1245 -- started the Shame on NV Energy campaign to fight the utility's decision to the slash health benefits of their retirees. We made a conscious decision at the beginning to try something new and ...

Labor Leaders Tell Obama: Stop Killing Jobs
Human Events
IBEW executive Jonathan Gardner warned that EPA red tape “directly would jeopardize the jobs of approximately 1500 IBEW members working at six different power plants across the state of Texas.” Gardner argued, “The shutdown of coal-fired units without ...

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Support labor, boycott IBEW Local 103
The Daily News of Newburyport
Over the past months, we've all come to learn that the IBEW Local 103 is run by extortionist thugs who know that Newburyport as a whole doesn't respect them. That's really too bad, considering that we live in a heavily Democratic stronghold that, ...

Murdock: Labor leaders to Obama: Stop killing jobs
Power Engineering Magazine
IBEW executive Jonathan Gardner warned that EPA red tape "directly would jeopardize the jobs of approximately 1500 IBEW members working at six different power plants across the state of Texas." Gardner argued, "The shutdown of coal-fired units without ...

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IBEW 569 Welcomes Imperial County Apprentices
Imperial Valley Weekly
And, as more renewable energy developers commit to employing a local workforce, IBEW Local 569 can continue actively recruiting Imperial County apprentices to build a pipeline of skilled, local electricians in the community. While our region works to ...

Veterans connect to free services at IBEW event
Dorchester Reporter
Last Friday, just under 800 veterans gathered in the parking lot of the local IBEW 103 on Freeport Street to receive free services offered by the Volunteers of America and Department of Veterans Services. Services provided include medical services, ...

Deroy Murdock: Obama's Big Government has America bogged down
Los Angeles Daily News
IBEW executive Jonathan Gardner warned that EPA red tape "directly would jeopardize the jobs of approximately 1500 IBEW members working at six different power plants across the state of Texas." Gardner argued, "The shutdown of coal-fired units without ...

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Vincent J. Maresca, 62
NorthJersey.com
He was also a member of IBEW Local 837. He was the brother of Linda M. Jones; uncle of William Jones, and Eric and his wife Heather Jones; great-uncle of Emma and Ryan; and nephew of Stella and Joseph Holly. The family welcomed friends Monday, Aug. ...