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Do Videos Promote Participation?
September 7, 2019, is the day for this year’s Labor Day Parade, an occasion that brings unions from all over the tri-state area to march in honor of the working people of America. What makes...
IBEW Training: Confidence in the Next Generation
Being an intern at UCOMM offers many opportunities. One of those opportunities was being able to get a VIP tour of IBEW Local 3’s state-of-the-art training center in Long Island City, a...
Spectrum Strike Gets a Big Boost
The ranks of labor along with elected officials from across New York descended on East 23rd Street in the Big Apple this afternoon to join in the protest and recommit to the boycott of NY 1...
Local 3 IBEW Relaunches Spectrum Boycott
Labor leaders and elected officials in New York are accusing Charter/Spectrum of union busting after they walked away from negotiations with Local 3 IBEW, who have been on strike since March of 2017...
Governor Cuomo Calls for a Total Boycott of NY1
If you live in the Empire State and you even loosely follow politics, you know that Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio don't get along. The union workforce at...
Unions are not Special Interests
Amanda Bertram, vice president of public affairs for the Empire State chapter of the Associated Builders & Contractors, plays fast and loose with the facts in her letter "Take a closer look...
Our Nation Needs More Thomas Van Arsdale's
The IBEW regrets to announce the death of former International Treasurer Thomas P. Van Arsdale, one of the giants of the Brotherhood from a family of icons. He was 94. “Tom was a legend,...
Troy Walcott: "Taking More and More Until We Have Nothing"
On Saturday, Local 3 IBEW member Troy Walcott spoke at the Working People’s Day of Action rally in New York City. Troy has been on strike at Spectrum for nearly a year. Below were his remarks...
"Keep fighting the good fight, hit the GoFundMe page, let's keep this going..."
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"9969","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]] Find out why IBEW Local 3's Chris Erikson Jr, is supporting UCOMM...
Listen: LaGrange on America's Workforce Radio "He's a Fighter"
While UCOMM Blog may have been closed for Christmas, Kris LaGrange spent December 26th talking to one of our favorite labor radio hosts, Ed “Flash” Ferenc, on America’s Workforce...