The Massachusetts AFL-CIO celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Scholarship Program on Sunday, May 4th with a banquet at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel in honor of this year’s scholarship winners.

Labor Guild Announces Classes for Fall Term. Classes will be held on Monday evenings beginning September 15th.

Over the past 18 months, our administration has built a foundation for real, lasting change. We have delivered lower rates and more competition in auto insurance, an increase in jobs, 340,000 more people with health insurance, the protection of marriage equality, and a best-in-the-nation plan to help people facing home foreclosure.

In May 2008, the Utility Workers affiliated with the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE), becoming the 25th national union to do so.“For us, this affiliation just makes sense,” UWUA President D. Michael Langford said. “Operational engineers at National Grid joined us. Chemists and engineers at the Suffolk County Water Authority joined us. As we reach out to professional and technical workers in the electric, gas, nuclear, water, and service industries, our affiliation with DPE offers us organizational support and one more reason for professional workers to join us.”

Local 369 Members at Entergy Vote to ratify the P&M/OT&P and Technical Units Contracts. Congratulations to the Bargaining Committee and all of the members at Entergy for their hard work and solidarity.

May 15, 2008, Local 369 Members and representatives from Distrigas reach an agreement on a 5 year contract. Terms and conditions of the agreement have not been released. Congratulations to the Local 369 Bargaining Committee and the Members who work at Distrigas for their hard work and solidarity.

On April 7,2008, National Grid Call Center Members overwhelmingly ratify a 3 year contract.

Local 369 members employed at National Grid may now apply for the 2008 IBEW/UWUA scholarship. Applications are due on April 12, 2008.

Download the 2008 IBEW/UWUA Scholarship application

Download the 2008 IBEW/UWUA Scholarship cover letter

Your Bargaining Committee is proud to inform our members that we have reached a hard fought tentative agreement with National Grid on a new Contact Center contract. This newly negotiated contract gives protections for both existing members and future members. Click for more information...

This is Secretary-Treasurer Dan Hurley. Today is Sunday March 30, 2008. The Local and the company met all day and will be meeting into tonight and Monday.

Your bargaining committee is very pleased to inform you that we have made tremendous progress towards a new contract in the past 2 days.

We are moving closer to an agreement and are optimistic we can finalize all outstanding issues by the contract deadline.

The bargaining committee and leadership wish to thank all members in the contact center for their support and solidarity through this entire process. It is your efforts that have made these negotiations move in the right direction.

If we are successful in finalizing this agreement by the deadline as we believe we will be; we will notify all contact center members when and where an informational meeting and ratification vote will be held.