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Welcome to the UWUA System Local 102 Website.

Look here for information about the union, its contract with Allegheny Power in 4 states, and helpful links and answers about health insurance, the union contract and more.

Do you have ideas or questions about this site? Contact us at RWhalen@UWUA102.ORG or call (724) 424-3700.

Updates

October 3, 2011

Please be sure to attend your local meeting in October. There will be a vote on By-law changes relating to finances. President Whalen will attend all meetings to discuss the changes and current issues in our Local.

July 15, 2011

Harold Fabean, Area D Vice President, is retiring after many years of hard work and dedicated service to Local 102.Harold will be missed and we wish him all the best in his retirement.

January 28, 2011

After having a baby you MUST enroll the child in your medical plan within 30 days to have continuous coverage for the child. If you exceed the 30 day enrollment period after birth, you will only be able to enroll the child during the System Local 102 open enrollment period in March. There will be no exceptions to the above!

September 27, 2010

Harrison Power Station Votes to Join UWUA

System Local 102 would like to welcome Harrison Power Station to the Utility Workers Union of America. We look forward to working with you in solidarity to make a better work place.

September 4, 2010

System Local 102 has ratified the tentative agreement that will extend our contract until April 2013. The new agreement provides job security and improved benefits for our members.

July 30, 2010

News Alert from UWUA System Local 102

System Local 102 has reached a tentative agreement with Allegheny Energy that will provide a Labor Agreement that will expire April 30, 2013. The new agreement will be voted on by the membership in Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia during the month of August. The tentative agreement provides enhanced job security, wage increases and the resolution of other work place issues.

April 15, 2010

VOLUNTARY HOLIDAY CALL TRUCK PROGRAM:

VOTE RESULTS

The Membership rejected the Voluntary Holiday Call Truck Program by 76%.

From this point forward, the Weekly Call Truck, when offered, must be filled for the entire week. The Weekend Call Truck, when offered, must be filled on Saturday and Sunday, with Friday being optional for the Member.

WIN WITH SOLIDARITY

Robert T. Whalen, President

February 14, 2010

Please sign up for the new e-mail feature on this site to receive any information about the sale and other important matters.

February 14, 2010

Welcome to the new System Local 102 Web Site. Please have patience with us as we are still updating some of the pages of the site. With the pending First Energy buy out of Allegheny we wanted to get the site online. The Union has been told by Allegheny we should not experience any changes from a Service Center level down. They characterized the pending sale of the company would be business as usual for Service Centers. We have been working with other organizations to learn as much as possible about the sale.

Please sign up for the new e-mail feature on this site to receive any information about the sale and other important matters.

February 11, 2010

The Utility Workers Union of America has proudly represented clerical, professional, and physical workers for many years. If you have an interest in joining our union, please call 724-424-3700 or check our national union's website at the following link: http://www.uwua.net/organizing/join-the-utility-workers-union.html or visit the national union's website at http://www.uwua.net/. All inquiries will be kept strictly confidential.

March 1, 2009

Sisters and Brothers:

Reminder: Cell telephone numbers can be released to telemarketing companies, so you might receive sales calls.

Depending on the wireless service provider plan you have, there could be charges for those type of incoming calls.

If you want to prevent that from happening, block your cell telephone number for five years by calling 888/382-1222.

This is a National Do Not Call Registry service and you must call from the cell telephone number you want blocked.

You might want to consider passing this information on to the membership. It only takes about twenty seconds.

March 1, 2009

Dear MoveOn member,

Want to see what change looks like? Real change?

Well, here it is. Last week, President Obama unveiled his budget-his blueprint for America-and it's ambitious, amazing, and unapologetically progressive.As Paul Krugman said, it will set America on a "fundamentally new course."¹

President Obama called his budget "a threat to the status quo," and trust me, the status quo noticed. Oil companies, big banks and insurance companies are already mobilizing to stop it.²

Unfortunately, most folks don't realize how far-reaching and progressive the plan is-that's where we all come in.

Here are 10 really incredible things about Obama's plan. Check them out andthen send them on to your friends and family so that millions of people will have the information they need to fight to make this vision a reality.

10 things you should know about Obama's plan (but probably don't)

The plan:

1. Makes a $634 billion down payment on fixing health care that will go a long way toward paying for a more efficient, more affordable health care system that covers every single American.³
2. Reduces taxes for 95% of working Americans. And if your family makes less than $250,000, your taxes won't go up one dime.⁴
3. Invests more than $100 billion in clean energy technology, creating millions of green jobs that can never be outsourced.⁵
4. Brings our troops home from Iraq on a firm timetable, finally bringing the war to a close-and freeing up almost ten billion dollars a month for domestic priorities.⁶
5. Reverses growing income inequality. The plan lets the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire and focuses on strengthening the middle class.⁷
6. Closes multi-billion-dollar tax loopholes for big oil companies. ⁸
7. Increases grants to help families pay for college-the largest increase ever.⁹
8. Halves the deficit by 2013. President Obama inherited a legacy of huge deficits and an economy in shambles, but his plan brings the deficit under control as soon as the economy begins to recover.¹⁰
9. Dramatically increases funding for the SEC and the CFTC-the agencies that police Wall Street.¹¹
10. Tells it straight. For years, budgets have used accounting tricks to hide the real costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts, and too many other programs. Obama's budget gets rid of the smokescreens and lays out what America's priorities are, what they cost, and how we're going to pay for them.¹²

This is the change we voted for. President Obama has done his part, now we need to do ours.

Can you pass this on to your personal network and then click here to let us know how many people you told, so we can track our impact together:

http://pol.moveon.org/budget10/?id=15687-13608820-yA6j6Wx&t=1

Thanks for all you do.

-Daniel, Tanya, Peter, Justin and the rest of the team

P.S. Turns out there are way more than 10 amazing things in Obama's budget and we couldn't resist sharing just a few more.

1. Stops unnecessary government subsidies to big banks, health insurance companies and big agribusinesses.^13,14,15
2. Expands access to early childhood education and improves schools by investing in programs that make sure every child has a qualified, strong teacher.¹⁶
3. Negotiates for better prescription drug prices using Medicaid's tremendous bargaining power.¹⁷
4. Expands access to family planning for low-income women.¹⁸
5. Caps the pollution that causes global warming, and makes polluters pay to support clean energy innovation.¹⁹

July 14, 2007

The Union won the Tim Chiplaskey arbitration discharge case. The Arbiter ruled the discharge was improper. Tim shall return as a memeberingood standing. The ruling stated that Tim must be made whole in every way with back pay, 401K money, any job bids denied, and all other benefits to make him whole.

This is the second arbitration case in a row that the Union has won. Many thanks go to Bob Chet who put on a great case for us. Bill Sterner and Dave Corb who really fought hard to get this case arbitrated. Spencer Epps, Joe Zimmerlink and Matt Larew really worked hard with thier research and testimony on Tim's behalf.

All participating 102M members gave an honest effort when testifying and preparing for this arbitration. Honesty always pays.

The Union hit a home run in our March 27, 2007 Arbitration. The issue was the company not filling a retirement as a permanent vacancy. Instead they filled it as a temporary vacancy. The company denied 4 Union members 2 months of upgraded pay. This happened at Hatfields Ferry Power Station in the Coal and Ash Unit.

As a result of the company's violations of the contract they have to make whole all affected members that were denied their line of progression move ups. Including a deceased members estate because he passed away prior to this decision. They must pay all back money including adjustments to their 401k accounts. Jim Lewis really put on a great case for the Union. Dave Corob, and Joe Zimmerlink were key players in their testimony which enabled 102 to prevail. This is just the beginning of many more successulcontract battles with Allegheny. Please read the complete document in PDF format HERE.

Do you want to help out the American auto industry? Click on the link below and send a letter to your senators and congressmen. As union members we cannot stand still, take action now. They would love to break the back of the UAW, we cannot let this happen.

Click on this URL to take action now
http://capwiz.com/uwua/utr/2/?a=12289991&i=90692840&c=

If your email program does not recognize the URL as a link,
copy the entire URL and paste it into your Web browser.

October 5, 2008

System Local 102 Update

The Union continues negotiate System Transmission crews and Mobile Maintenance crews with the company. Two points of disagreement are wages and travel. We are hopeful to get an agreement soon so both of these important jobs can start.

The company has presented the Union with a new way to operate the Retail Delivery system. The new system will include a remodeling of the service center and distribution facilities. The Retail Delivery Drivers will have a greater hand in material control and storeroom operation at the Service Center level. There will be a pilot program at Kittanning and Berkley Springs Service Centers to test the new program.

The Union recently met with the Allegheny's Vice President of distribution about restoration of service and service reliability concerns. We discussed storm management, interaction of various work groups, maintenance procedures, and host of various issues related to customer outages. The company is looking at ways to better manage storm events with technology and utilization of the work force. The union provided many good suggestions to help get our customers power restored safely and timely. Please continue to accept call outs help our company reach the benchmarks set forth by the PUC.