News Updates
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/NewsWe support Gov. Cuomo's Energy Highway Plan
By tapping the generation capacity and renewable energy potential in Upstate and Western New York and Canada, Governor Cuomo's plan to build an energy highway brings power to meet the tremendous needs of Downstate New York. The energy highway, financed by more that $2 billion in infrastructure...
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/NewsOpen enrollment benefit kits
Union employees will be notified on November 14, 2011 that they should be receiving open enrollment kits in the mail on Thursday and due to the delay, they will have until December 2nd, 2011 to enroll. All employees MUST ENROLL even if there are no changes in their status. It is very important...
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/NewsThe American Jobs Act
Here’s what the American Jobs Act does: • First, it provides a tax cut for small businesses, not big corporations, to help them hire and expand now, and provides an additional tax cut to any business that hires or increases wages. • Second, it puts more people back to work, including up to 280,...
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/NewsOur website upgrade!
WEBSITE UPGRADE LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2011 Our current website is getting a bit of a makeover. The same features will still exist, scrolling high resolution banner photos, a photo gallery, videos, and upcoming events. The upgrade will give us the opportunity to showcase important information via a...
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/NewsHappy Labor Day from IBEW Local 83
Labor Day this year has so much meaning, to so many of us. Within a year, we read papers attacking teachers. Some states like Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey tried to take away public employees right to bargain collectively, so we rallied around that and wore We Are One stickers and some of us even...
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/NewsHurricane Irene Responders
HURRICANE IRENE - Special Message from Local 83 As you know our entire membership is engaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. At its peak an estimated 270,000 customers are without power or natural gas. We have members watching downed wires, doing damage assessment, handing out dry ice,...
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/NewsNew York State Utility Labor Council
Did you know that Local 83 President and Business Manager Dan Addy is also the President of the New York State Utility Labor Council? The photo shows Dan working with the council at the most recent meeting in April. This is a council of Business Managers from 18 local unions that represents over 14...
