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L-627 locks in five-year contract with PSI Local 627 (Phoenix) shipyard workers in Honolulu, Hawaii, are celebrating their five-year contract with Pacific Shipyards International, replacing the three-year contract signed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Boilermakers represent all workers in the closed-shop shipyard. The contract secured wage increases, a shift differential increase, better overtime pay, boot allowance increases and a pay raise for those in the lead man and foreman positions. — Jun 26
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DOE calls on L-101’s Gallegos for working group The U.S. Department of Energy hosted a working group event through the Colorado School of Mines in April to address funding for clean energy manufacturing and economic development. Local 101 (Denver) Business Manager-Secretary Treasurer Robert Gallegos was selected to participate on the DOE’s Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization—more specifically discussing “Building Successful Partnerships for Energy Communities.” — Jun 24
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Labour Board issues favorable judgement for CESSCO Boilermakers In a landmark decision issued in June 2024, the Alberta Labour Board ruled that CESSCO Inc. violated the rights of its employees by denying their return to work and discriminating against them for exercising their rights under the Alberta Labour Code. The saga began on June 28, 2020, when CESSCO Inc. locked out 30 Boilermakers from Local 146 (Edmonton, Alberta). They’d been in bargaining for over two and a half years when the company served its final offer in a collective agreement that reduced wages and pension contributions and gutted seniority language. — Jun 21
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ASU taps Boilermaker for infrastructure symposium panel Arizona State University hosted a Southwest Carbon Capture and Storage Hub Symposium in May to convene industry leaders and explore a regional approach to energy infrastructure projects fast approaching in the American Southwest. The university invited Local 627 (Phoenix) Business Manager-Secretary Treasurer Jacob Evenson as a topic expert on a panel addressing the community engagement aspects of large infrastructure development. — Jun 17
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Local 374 member trapped for six days escapes death In a harrowing ordeal worthy of a blockbuster movie, Matt Reum from Local 374 (Hobart, Indiana) barely escaped death last December. On a late-night drive home, his truck hit a guardrail and rolled several times, finally stopping in a ditch under a highway overpass. Surviving on nothing but pure grit and the dirty water dripping down from the highway above, Reum didn’t know if he’d live—or if he even wanted to—during the six long days and nights he was trapped in his truck. — Jun 12