Come Attend A Rally For Workers Rights To Bargain This Thursday March 3 At 4:30 PM

There will be a rally made up of various unions in the Hudson Valley to show support for the Wisconsin Public Employees and ALL EMPLOYESS RIGHTS TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.



The rally will be held at the Teamsters Local 445 Union hall on Stone Castle Road in Newburgh, NY and it will begin at 4:30PM.

If you are really not up on what is going on, the best thing you can do to really get a feel for what is happenening is to go to youtube.com and type in "Wisconsin protests".

You will come up with a large group of videos that will surely how you the struggle first hand. You will also see the rebirth of the labor movement right before your eyes.

This is much bigger than some Republican governor trying to balance his budget. This is about the Republican move to do away with unions a s a whole.

Out of Town Work Update 2-14-11

For any of our Brothers and Sisters who are looking to travel we have received this info in the hall today:

WALK THROUGH
IBEW Local 613
501 Pulliam Street SW
Suite 250
Atlanta, Georgia 30312
404-523-8107 tel

6-10's $29.00 per hour
I.D. needed military base


IBEW Local 158
1570 Elizabeth Street
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54302
(920) 432- 0158 tel

6-12's - $400.00 to take job / $400.00 paid out on layoff

Level II ( Part B ) Instrumentation Tech.
$30.17 per hour
$97.00 a day per diem

Looking To Help Support The Concept Of Good Jobs? Come Out On February 3, 2011

The Tech City Campus is in Kingston up for a public meeting on their draft proposal to renovate the Tech City/ former IBM Kingston. The East Campus currently has 22 industrial and office buildings with over 2.1 million square feet.

To put it plainly, the owner has been sneaking in whoever he can to do the work there. We are planning on being present that night to bring the subject of good paying construction jobs to the table and the fact that "freewheeling it" will create a price to pay if illegals and sub standard jobs are the result.

The proposed plan would be to build a multi-use development to include light industrial, office, research and development, manufacturing, educational, wellness, neighborhood retail, restaurant, entertainment and multi-family residential uses, along with accessory parking.

PLEASE PLAN TO SHOW UP AT ABOUT 6:45PM.

The public meeting will be held on February 3, 2011 at 7:00PM at the Town of Ulster Town Hall.

Here are the directions:

Town of Ulster Town Hall
1 Town Hall Drive
Lake Katrine, NY



From the NYS Thruway:



Take Exit 19 and after the toll booth bear right onto Route 28 West.

Take first exit, Route 209 North - Rhinecliff Bridge, onto Route 209 North.

Follow Route 209 North to the second exit, County Route 157 - Enterprise Drive.

At the exit bear left (Neighborhood Road North)

Turn left at the traffic light, and left again at the stop sign onto Town Hall Drive.

Town Hall will be on your left.



From Route 9W:



Exit onto Route 209 South.

Take the first exit off of 209, County Route 157-Enterprise Drive.

Bear left and then turn left onto Town Hall Drive.

Town Hall will be on your left.

Our members should make every effort to be there and we hope to see a good crowd.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year To All IBEW Local 363 Members

On behalf of the Officers and Staff, IBEW Local 363 would like to wish everyone - in all of the many divisions and occupations of our union - a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! We hope we are able to help you all have a better 2011 and beyond!

Taylor Biomass Finally Gets All Approvals - Breaking Ground Monday December 6

Taylor Biomass will break ground for Phase one of the project on Monday December 6.

Thank you to all IBEW 363 members who attended meetings with us to support this project over the last two plus years.

After much work, many meetings and a little bit of hope the Montgomery Town Board granted the company permission to start construction of its garbage to gas facility.

Senator Charles Schumer and Congressman Maurice Hinchey, who were instrumental in securing a $100 million federal loan guarantee, will be at the ceremony on Monday along with company owner James Taylor, IBEW 363 and Building Trades officials.

The new plant is expected to create some 400 construction jobs and it should help to give some relief our Brothers and Sisters who can sure use the work and the paychecks.

Let's hope it is the first of many more opportunities to come.

Powerful Speech Supports The American Middle Class - Exposes Hypocrisy

It is not very often that you hear a politician from any party get up and tell it exactly the way it is.

This speech is an exception to the rule.

These are extremely important times for working class families. Not only is the economy and unemployment doing terrible damage to the working class - the corporations are still taking more as we suffer.

Labor Unions play a key role now and will play a much more important role in the coming years. Labor is the only organized group still running interference for the American workers.

Most in the dwindling middle class are fast asleep but they are soon in for a rude awakening. The people are about to be pushed to the brink by corporate greed and organized labor will be sought after to bring the middle class back to life.

History repeats itself - you heard him say that "they want to bring us back to the twenties."

Well, the thirties followed the twenties and so did the resourgence of labor. That resourgence happened when the people were pushed down as low as they could go - just like what we see developing now.

Happy Thanksgiving To All IBEW Local 363 Members And Their Families

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our members and their families. Take the time to spend with your family and give thanks for their love and support.

On behalf of the Local we sincerely thank all of our members for their support of the union movement and IBEW Local 363.