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Local 103, IBEW ~ Election Results

Local 103, IBEW - Election of Officers - May 3, 2008

Total Members Voting:  2856 (49.33%)

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Chair of Organizing Roundtable Named

Bill Corley, an Organizer with IBEW Local 103, was named the new Chair of the Organizing Roundtable this week. Brother Corley has had a long and distinguished career organizing workers and bringing them into the Labor Movement. "Bill Corley will be a great steward of the Organizing Roundtable as we seek to move the Organizing agenda of labor in Massachusetts forward. We understand that Organizing must be linked to everything we do - politics, legislation, community service, everything. Bill Corley understands that and will help the Organizing Roundtable continue to be a very effective endeavor of this State Federation. Bill Corley will be a great chair and will work closely with current members of the Roundtable, as well as recruit new members so that we keep heading in a positive direction for workers," said President Haynes.

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New Wind Turbine

Total energy produced by the wind turbine.

 View the wind turbine "in action"!
Note: Movie is in QuickTime format. We recommend viewing with a high-speed internet connection.

View the wind turbine image gallery.

With an eye toward the future, I.B.E.W. Local 103 has aggressively assumed a leadership role in the Renewable Energy field in Massachusetts. With government mandates in place that will ensure a continually larger share of the energy market is represented by alternative sources, Local 103 has recognized the inevitability of this market shift as well as the potential opportunities it presents.

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Wind Turbine Update

We want all the members and general Public to understand why the wind turbine was not spinning recently.

There are many tests and adjustments that you have to do after the wind turbine is standing. First of all you have to wire it up with a 200 amp service and pull all the data cables for voice and data to the internet. There are special meters for reading the output of the wind turbine to have connected. Then there has been vigorous days of TESTING and ADJUSTMENTS. The new wind turbine is put up in a few days but it can not run without all the various testing cycles. We have to take the time even if we are all waiting for it to spin. We needed these strong winds to make sure all is safe and it is. With the Nor’easter we all wanted to run it but we had to make sure the brakes can hold it from spinning so it can never run above recommended speeds.

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