| April 2005 New IBEW Local Takes Contract Struggle WorldwideDavid Grubbs and 200 fellow workers at the Osram Sylvania glass tube plant in Versailles, Kentucky, withstood a blistering and venomous anti-union campaign before a secret ballot vote in November 2003...April 29, 2005.
 Effort to Win Fair Asbestos Trust Fund Bill ContinuesThe labor movement is continuing to fight for a compromise bill to establish a federal asbestos trust fund that ensures just and timely compensation to sufferers of asbestos-related diseases...April 25, 2005.
 Stop CAFTA (The Central American Free Trade Agreement)!...April 16, 2005.  Adelphia Workers Win IBEW RepresentationAn unrelenting and bitter organizing campaign ended in a National Labor Relations Board election win for Adelphia Communications Inc. cable technicians in western Massachusetts on April 8....April 16, 2005
 Workers Memorial Day - April 28 2005 Conference on Creative Organizing/Great Labor Arts Exchange June 19-21 – National Labor College – Silver Spring, Maryland Members Voting on Tentative Settlement with Canadian Railroad ...April 1, 2005. Johnson Controls Moves To Mexico 
167 IBEW Jobs Lost in Indiana...April 1, 2005. |