Beefing up domestic supply chains while strengthening security and competitiveness is behind the new law incentivizing the production of critical computer chips here in the United States.
Michael McDermott, Business Manager
Around the Local
Administration Tackles Supply Chain Disruptions, Computer Chip Shortages with Made-in-the-USA Policy
The Biden Administration and Congress have won a historic achievement for IBEW members and their families with the Inflation Reduction Act. The enormous energy and tax package will put IBEW members to work in family-sustaining jobs for the secure, self-reliant grid of the future.
IBEW President Lonnie Stephenson is rallying members to help protect the country from undemocratic forces in state legislatures and in the U.S. Congress seeking to limit voting rights.
Please be advised that under the terms and conditions of our inside and residential collective bargaining agreements, the following are observed as Holidays:
MONDAY, MAY 25, 2020 - MEMORIAL DAY
SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2020 - INDEPENDENCE DAY
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 - LABOR DAY
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2020 - THANKSGIVING DAY
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2020 CHRISTMAS DAY
FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 2021 NEW YEARS DAY
Anyone working these Holidays are required to notify the union hall and will be paid at double time the hourly rate of pay for those days.
Local 81 is temporarily amending its procedure for signing the out of work list. Effective 4/6/2020 INITIAL signing of our books shall be allowed via fax (570-344-6934) or by e-mail (local81referral@yahoo.com). Please include the following information: Name, address, phone, Local #, card #, and whether it is an intial sign or a resign. PLEASE NOTE All resign procedures are still in place. All resigns must be receieved between the 10th and the 16th of each month.
Please see the following link for Unemployment Information - https://www.uc.pa.gov/COVID-19/CARES-Act/Pages/default.aspx.
Thank you.
Business Manager Michael McDermott
(570) 344-5711