IBEW Local 668 Presents "Dancin in the Streets" In Lafayette, Indiana

17th Annual Dancing in the Streets to be a “Rockin’ Night of Fun”

Carolyn Shelby, Lafayette Online News
Posted July 16th, 2008 in LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Lafayette–West Lafayette Development Corporation announced details of the 17th Annual Dancing in the Streets festival today during a press conference on the John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge. This year’s Dancing in the Streets presented by IBEW Local 668, will be on Saturday, July 19, 2008 from 4:00p–Midnight on the streets of Downtown Lafayette–West Lafayette.

This year’s theme is “Rockin’ Night of Fun” and features a full schedule of entertainment and activities. As part of the festivities, Lafayette’s Main Street will transform into a hot rod paradise when hundreds of classic cars and motorcycles cruise the streets of Downtown. Also back this year by popular demand is the Laser Light Show, sponsored by IBEW Local 668, in West Lafayette’s Tapawingo Park.

Advanced tickets are $5.00 and available at Guaranteed Transmission, IBEW Local 668, First Financial Bank locations, and the Lafayette–West Lafayette Development Corporation office at the Depot. Admission at the gate for adults is $8.00, children ages 5-12 are $1.00 and children under age 5 are free.

Entertainment: Two stages of entertainment will keep Downtown streets rockin’. Jayne Bond and the Pink Martinis will keep the energy elevated with their high-power act immediately after the classic car and motorcycle cruise. Other acts include Roy E. Reynolds’ “Tribute to Elvis” performing one show only from 6-7 pm, The Groove Catz, the Snake Charmers, American Cheese, Soulshine Band and The Late Show. Additional entertainment will be on the John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge.

Food: Food will be provided by 12 local restaurants in Tapawingo Park and at Riehle Plaza including long time vendors Sgt. Preston’s and Arni’s Pizza and a new vendor this year, Scagnoli’s. Food and beverages will also be served by in-house vendors including Chumley’s, Skylight Coffeehouse, Java Roaster, the Black Sparrow, Red Seven, and The Vault.

Car and Motorcycle Show and Cruise: A classic car show, sponsored by Chase Bank has anchored the festival for years but has now been expanded to include motorcycles and show bikes. The classic car and motorcycle cruise will begin at 7 p.m. and includes a two mile oval on Main and Ferry Streets between 2nd and 10th Streets. This year $1,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to classic cars and motorcycles. Guaranteed Transmission and the Development Corporation are this year’s prize sponsors. All car exhibitors will receive gifts and coupons from our sponsors, vendors and local businesses. Awards will be given in several categories including the Mayors’ Awards. Car registration is available at the McDonald’s Open Cruise on July 18th at the McDonald’s on 510 Sagamore Pkwy N and the Fifth Third Bank branch on 2nd Street, in Downtown Lafayette, from 12 noon – 6:45 p.m. on July 19.

Laser Light Show: A laser light show will light up Tapawingo Park just after dark during the event. Sponsored by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 668.

Advanced Ticket Sales: Advanced tickets are $5 and are available at IBEW Local 668, AAMCO Transmission, Guaranteed Transmission Service, First Financial Bank locations, and at the Lafayette–West Lafayette Development Corporation.

Volunteers: Volunteers are still needed to work two-hour shifts at Admission Gates and Ticket Booths. All volunteers receive free admission and a Dancing in the Streets t-shirt. Please contact the Lafayette-West Lafayette Development Corporation at 742-4044 or by email at jness@lwldc.org for more information or to sign up.

Entertainment schedule:

Riehle Plaza:

• 4:00-6:00p: The Groove Catz
• 6:00-7:00p: Roy E. Reynolds - The Tribute to Elvis
• 7:00-8:00p: Classic Car and Motorcycle Cruise
• 8:00–10:00p: Jayne Bond & The Pink Martinis
• 10:00–10:15p: Lo Woods
• 10:00–12:00 midnight: Snake Charmers

Tapawingo Park:

• 4:00-5:00p: Lo Woods
• 4:30–7:30p: Smiles Unlimited providing face painting and balloon art
• 5:00–7:00p: American Cheese
• 7:00–9:00p: Soulshine Band
• 9:00–9:15p: Lo Woods
• 9:15-10:15p: The Late Show
• 10:00–10:30p: Laser Light Show
• 10:30–12 midnight: The Late Show returns

John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge:

• 5:30–6:00p: DMG’s StarCity Dancers
• 6:15–6:45p: Triple S Sassy Snake Stompers
• 8:00–9:00p: Oasis Dancers

Roving Entertainers

• 8:00–9:30p: First Class Only Civic Youth Theatre’s Traveling Thespians

IBEW Local 347 Teams up with KCCI TV and Fairplay Scoreboards to provide scoreboards for community groups

Would your team like to "score" a free Fairplay scoreboard like the one pictured to the right?

Last year KCCI teamed up with IBEW to give away 12 of these for baseball, softball, football and basketball.

And this year, the electrical workers are proud to be buying 12 more scoreboards to give away! ...View Officials Rules

Just print the nomination form, fill it out and return it to KCCI by August 8.

Mail to:
SCORE!
KCCI-TV
888 9th St.
Des Moines, IA 50309

Official Rules and Regulations

June 26, 2008

1. General. By submitting an entry to this contest, sponsored by Internet Broadcasting Systems I.B.E.W. Local 347, and Fairplay Scoreboards the entrant acknowledges and agrees to all of these Official Rules. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Contest ends on Friday, August 8, 2008 at 5 pm. All times in this contest refer to Central Daylight Savings Time. By entering the drawing, entrants agree to waive any right to claim any ambiguity or error in these Official Rules, or the drawing itself, and agree to be bound by these Official Rules and by all decisions of the Sponsor, whose decisions are binding and final. Sponsor reserves the right to withdraw the transmission of this sweepstakes and award the prize from among entries received prior to the date of the withdrawal. Failure to comply with these rules may result in disqualification from this contest.

2. Eligibility. The contest is open only to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older as of June 26, 2008 and reside in central Iowa. Void wherever prohibited or restricted by applicable federal or state laws and regulations. Endorsement of school district and /or field owner of the nominated location/field must accompany submission. Employees of the Sponsor, Suppliers, KCCI, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, employees, advertising and promotion agencies and members of their immediate families (spouses, parents, children, and siblings and their spouses) are not eligible.

3. How To Enter. To be considered, you must print nomination form, which includes name, address, telephone number, email address along with additional qualifying information and mailing or hand delivering all of the above information and contact information to: SCORE! c/o KCCI 888 Ninth Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309. You may enter onceduring the sweepstakes period. Multiple entries received from any person will void all such additional entries. Entries that are incomplete, illegible or corrupted are void and will not be accepted. Neither the Sponsor, the television station listed above nor their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees are responsible for telecommunications, network, electronic, technical or computer failures of any kind, for inaccurate transcription of entry information, errors in any promotional or marketing materials, errors in these rules, for any human or electronic error, or for entries that are stolen, misdirected, garbled, delayed by computer transmissions, lost, late or damaged. All entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. All entries must be received before 5 PM Central Daylight Savings Time on August 8, 2008 to be eligible for the final decisions.

4. Selection of Winners. Up to 12 winners will be notified for the SCORE! promotion starting the week of August 11, 2008. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Winners will be required to sign and return to the Sponsor an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release within 14 days of notification. If any prize notification is undeliverable, or in the event of non-compliance with any of these requirements, the prize will be forfeited, and an alternate winner will be selected.

5. Prize. The prize is a Scoreboard for athletic field or venue. The total prize package value will be determined by Scoreboard/Venue/Sport awarded. The prizes cannot be exchanged for cash. Transfer of the prize is prohibited. All taxes and all other expenses, costs or fees associated with the acceptance and/or use of the prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. A valid driver’s license and proof of insurance must be shown at time of drawing. The Sponsor reserve(s) the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value at its sole discretion. Winner must complete an affidavit of eligibility and liability release, or the prize will be forfeited and alternate winner selected.

The winning locations / recipient is responsible for all related costs, including shipping and handling; installation and wiring; mounting; and support system. Installation and wiring of each scoreboard must be performed by an electrical contractor who is signatory to the collective bargaining agreement between NECA and I.B.E.W. Local #347.

Scoreboards are pre-designed by FairPlay inclusive of the I.B.E.W. Local #347 and KCCI Sports logos.

Disclaimer. Winner assumes all liability for any injury or damages caused or claimed to be caused by his or her participation in the sweepstakes and/or the acceptance and/or use of any prize, and releases the Sponsor,the station’s listed above and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, from any such liability. The Sponsor, the station listed above and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees are not responsible for technical, hardware, software, or telephone malfunctions of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled or delayed electronic communications caused by the user or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this sweepstakes or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the entries in this sweepstakes. Entry constitutes permission (except where prohibited by law) to use winner's name, city, state, likeness and/or voice for purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity without additional compensation. The winner’s name and city of residence will be posted online and mailed to those who request it.

6. Internet. If for any reason, the contest is not capable of running as planned for any reason, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, and unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity of the game or sweepstakes, the Sponsor reserves its right in its discretion to disqualify any individual it believes has tampered with the entry process, and/or cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest/sweepstakes/game. The Sponsor, the station listed above and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees (i) assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alternation of, entries: (ii) are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or provider, computer equipment, software, failure of any email to be received by the Sponsor on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to the participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this sweepstakes/game.

7. Winner Announcement. For the name of the winners, available after September 1, 2008 send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be received by September 15, 2008 to: SCORE!, c/o KCCI 888 Ninth Street Des Moines, Iowa 50309.

IBEW Local 6 (San Francisco) Organizes Solar Installers

Friday, June 22, 2007

IBEW hopes to unionize solar installers

San Francisco Business Times - by Ron Leuty

Local 6 of the International Brother­hood of Electrical Workers is making another attempt to plug into the growth of solar power.

The union will try to organize solar panel installation companies in the Bay Area, said Tim Donovan, Local 6 assistant business manager. Getting more contractors to use electricians only makes sense, he said, because those solar systems must plug in to traditional electricial systems before winning approval from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for a state rebate.

The IBEW, as much as any business, wants to capitalize on the rebate-fed growth of solar panels, Donovan said. For the union, that means creating more card-carrying IBEW members.

"We're interested in organizing any contractor that needs a skilled workforce," Donovan said. "One of the issues coming up now is that there are a lot of mom-and-pop solar companies that don't have the qualified, trained electricians to do solar. We're trying to educate those contractors to their responsibilities."

Many standard residential projects cost less than $25,000 to install, with rebates of $5,000 or more.

"There's a growing curve of installations in the next few years," he said. "There's a lot of work to be done, and we want our contractors to go after that work."

Several solar power system installation companies contacted for this story, including Los Gatos-based Akeena Solar, one of the nation's largest solar system installers, said they have not yet been the focus of union-organizing attempts or heard of any attempt to organize.

David Hochschild, executive director of PV Now, a coalition of photovoltaic companies aimed at increasing the U.S. market for solar electricity, said the IBEW effort is the latest of several efforts by the union to generate more work for its members.

IBEW tried unsuccessfully to mandate that all solar installations be completed by licensed electricians rather than licensed solar installers, Hochschild said. The roughly 300 "C-46" solar licensees in the state are limited to solar photovoltaic cells.

What's more, when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his rebate plan to encourage 1 million homes and businesses in the state to install solar systems, the union opposed it. Donovan said that opposition was based on the union's belief that payment of prevailing wages to installers -- which usually means union scale -- should be required to be eligible for rebates.

Ultimately, the California Public Utilities Commission launched a solar initiative without a prevailing wage provision. Its rebates are funded by utility rates.

Still, Hochschild agreed that more schooling for installers is needed. "It's a good thing that more people are trained for it."

rleuty@bizjournals.com/ (415) 288-4939
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New Mexico Contractors work with IBEW to Build the Future

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

NM's uranium enrichment facility featured on Web TV

New Mexico Business Weekly

ElectricTV.net is featuring the uranium enrichment facility under construction Eunice, New Mexico, in its latest edition of the Web TV program.

ElectricTV.net is a joint production of the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and is the only Web TV program dedicated to reporting the latest developments in the electrical construction and information systems industries.

Louisiana Energy Services is constructing the $1.5 billion facility -- the first uranium enrichment installation to be built in the U.S. in more than 30 years.

Louisiana Energy CEO Gregory Smith said the feature on the facility reflects the unique partnership between the three NECA contractors and hundreds of IBEW workers involved in the project.

"These people are sophisticated, they know what they're doing," Gregory said in a news release. "They're meeting and exceeding not only the schedule but the engineering requirements."

Also on the program is an interview with Greenpeace founding member Patrick Moore about the benefits of nuclear energy.

To view the ElectricTV.net show, visit www.ElectricTV.net/enrich.aspx.

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Chatanooga TN IBEW Trains for New VW Porject

Labor Groups Gear Up for VW Work

Posted: July 16, 2008 09:21 PM

Updated: July 17, 2008 09:11 PM

CHATTANOOGA (WRCB) - Before any cars are manufactured Enterprise South, the plant must first be built. That is going to require skilled workers, because the plant is expected to be state of the art and cutting edge. Local labor unions are preparing for jobs they believe may be coming their way. The local chapter of the IBEW, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, has about 3,000 members who are certified to perform the smallest tasks to installing plc's, electrical programming boards that will be throughout the V-W plant.

Kenny Smith, training director of the IBEW NECA Apprenticeship School, says "this is what we do, what we have been waiting on. This is cutting edge, high-end technology, but we are ready. NECA and the IBEW have been training contractors for over 100 years."

Roger Tuder, the President and CEO of the Associated General Contractors of East Tennessee, says," We are general contractors, we hope to see some activity there. In fact, we are grading right now. We would like to come in and lay the foundation, erect the walls, do the electrical work and the interior finishes." Tuder says his phone lines were ringing off the hook on Wednesday. "Many people are ready to work, I have had people call me today wanting to know if the plans are in, the answer is no they are not."

Local colleges and high schools offer programs that prepare students to work in these jobs, such as Chattanooga State, the IBEW NECA Apprenticeship School and the East Ridge Construction Academy.