March 2005
Press Release:Electrical Workers Puerto Rico Training Center Unveiled
Facility to Evaluate, Train Construction Electricians...March 21, 2005.
Electricistas Inauguran Un Centro Educativo En Puerto Rico: Un Centro de Adiestramiento y Evaluacin para Electricistas en la Industria de la Construccin...March 21, 2005.
Press Event In Washington D.C.’s Union Station Takes On Amtrak Cuts...March 18, 2005.
New Jersey Strike Ends
Workers who had spent the last three months on strike returned to their jobs at Jersey Central Power & Light on March 16, a day after ratifying a contract proposal....March 18, 2005.
Keep Women’s Data Groups Tell BLS
A recent decision by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to discontinue gathering information on women in its monthly payroll survey in favor of other new data has caused an uproar among elected officials, organized labor and women’s groups....March 14, 2005.
PBS Show Will Examine Retiree Health Care Rip-Offs
The IBEW Journal featured an article in the January-February 2005 issue about IBEW retirees, who worked in Arizona copper mines, being taken to court by their employer, Asarco, because the company wants to stop paying their health care benefits. Tune In - Friday, April 1 at 9:00 p.m. (check local listings)...March 10, 2005.
Senate Rejects Minimum Wage Hike
Workers earning the minimum wage will have to continue their eight-year-wait for an increase....March 10, 2005.
Bolling Air Base Workers Vote IBEW
The IBEW’s Service Contract Act initiative was successful in its first organizing campaign to represent 30 contract maintenance workers at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. March 10, 2005.
Jersey Central Power and Light Strikers Hold Line
Those who say that American unions have lost their fighting spirit never met the 1,350 IBEW members at Jersey Central Power and Light who spent Christmas and New Year’s on strike and are still holding the line after the company cut off their medical benefits....March 4, 2005.
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