Just wondering if any of you hands up north have much experience with Fortis which is a large Canadian utility. They have entered into talks to purchase the utility I work for In upstate New ...
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Just wondering if any of you hands up north have much experience with Fortis which is a large Canadian utility. They have entered into talks to purchase the utility I work for In upstate New ...
Sure does!! Don't know if they have any takers but we have until the 30th of April. Guess you can't blame a company for being prepared but you also can't blame a Local for prepareing themselves.:D
Hey Lood just read your profile and I just assumed you were in the old NiMo. I forget that Grid was in Mass too. Thanks anyway.
Well Lood we are just south of your old territory in the hudson valley. CHG&E I know a bunch of guys from the old NiMo and we have allways been welcome when we visited you in the north country....
Thanks for the info guys.. We are in contact with the crews that are here and they seem like a good bunch. More to follow on this as our contract expires on April 30th. Don't want to say too much as...
Thanks for the link Lood. They are a nonunion shop. First one we have had on the property in a long time. Lets just hope the worst scenerio dose'nt play out. It seems like most negotiations lately...
Hey Lood thanks for the info as far as we can tell the guys are nonunion and here to supplement work if we walk. I will keep things updated here but if anyone has any other info on these guys it...
We don't know much about them but yes if they are not IBEW they may be positioning them to replace workers. Our contract runs out shortly and we are negotiating but as things are today it's tough...
I have a question for information on a contractor. We at Local 320 are in the middle of tough negotiations and the company has moved in possible replacement workers for the line department. Just...
I can't answer your questions but it's nice to know we may have some problems ahead. We are waiting for delivery of six hybrid International's with the Eaton system. They will have 55 foot Altec's on...
OUCH!! I always thought of that climbing past them but never thought... ouch:eek:
Thanks fellas. Just took a look at the jelco today and if we have to go to something I think it's got my vote. Just a shame it has got to come to this.:(
I have a question that I asked years ago but I need some new advise on it. With most utilities gloving up to at least 13.8 kv I would like a show of hands as to whether or not your utility or...
Wow! Poleshark? Thats a winner:confused: After a small amount of reaserch it's hard to belive how much stuff is out there on the market. Thanks for the info we will see what next week brings.
After a recent accident of one of our young lineman which he fell 30 feet from a pole and suffered a broken leg.(he was lucky could have been worse) Our utility is going to set up all our lineman...
Well we just bought two of the later you mentioned. Ours are made by Terex however I have seen the same boom down to the nuts and bolts with an Altec name on it. Go figure. They are on steel cleated...
Let's see, 18 year utility lineman, E.Board member (ibew local 320), line school instructor, a host of other responsibilitys that keep me real busy. Not complaining though would'nt have it any other...
Ya know I keep seeing these comments on the f#$^squeeze. Well I seen one once. I have been doing this for 17 years and for the past 6 years I have been one of two climbing instructors, training about...
We have all had the wire down call... I can tell you that twice in 17 years that I have seen cutouts with fuse blown and door still in. Usually those brown old fuzzy doors that when wet or carboned...
Ya know Smoky brings up a good point in the fact that you should look at surrounding agreements for advise. As usual things are done differently depending on your location, east, mid west etc. When...
Oh by the way our local is IBEW Local 320 in N.Y.
I will give you some language from our contract that we got last time we were at the table. Just got back from Con Ed from storms last friday.
Ok here we go.. Employees who, at the request of the...
Would you know the local that may be going on strike? We had similar problems 3 years ago. The utilities have these guys lined up waiting to work instead of sitting down and hammering out an...
You sound young and worried your in the wrong line of biz. Not to worry You say that you like what your doing and that's a start. Your going to make mistakes just like everyone else. The thing is to...
As you do we are required to wear cat 2 clothing when ever working on energized equipment. OSHA actually ( the last I looked) did not require a company to supply clothing up too cat 2. Anything above...