News from UWUA
- Free college benefit available to UWUA members
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- Safety Corner – Spring 2020
June, 22 2020Emergency Response! As every UWUA member knows, prior planning prevents poor performance. While no one could have known that a pandemic was on the way, less than a year ago, the UWUA had the foresight to establish the National Safety Committee with representatives from every industry in each of our five regions. The Safety Committee… Read More
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- Bel Air, Maryland American Water Workers Win Contract Victory
June, 22 2020American Water workers from Bel Air, Maryland ratified a new five-year contract with Maryland American Water on March 2, that includes an average 2.75% annual wage increase, an additional paid holiday, the elimination of a step to get to the top of the wage scale and a host of other working condition improvements. The tentative… Read More
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- Jerry Acosta Retires
June, 17 2020Jerry Acosta, Senior National Representative for Region V, has retired after more than 40 years in the utility industry, most of them spent serving the 5,000 UWUA members of California Locals 132, 522 and 483 at SoCal Gas. Jerry joined Local 132 in 1977 as a young Chicano activist in Los Angeles. He began his… Read More
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- Deb York Retires
June, 17 2020Deb York, who has played an important role in the workings of the National Union for more than 10 years, retired on May 31. She started working part-time for the UWUA when former President Mike Langford took office in 2007. She began full-time with UWUA in 2010, working as an administrative assistant to Langford and… Read More
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