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OP-ED | State Officials Should Encourage UI Employees to Speak Up, Even When We Disagree

A Trustee with the Utility Workers Union of America speaks up in favor of United Illuminating's rate hike request.

Jeff Cyr, Trustee, UWUA Local 470-1

City reaches contract agreement with Local 108

The Anderson Board of Public Works Tuesday approved the contract with Local 108 of the Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO.

Residents, activists ask state regulators to reject utilities' rate increases

Members of the public railed against potential increases to the price of natural gas and electricity at two recent public hearings before a state regulatory body that has the authority to limit those rate hikes. The Illinois Commerce Commission is considering several rate hikes, including two sought by the utilities Peoples Gas and Ameren Illinois,

This group of former coal workers just did something that's never been done before in the U.S.: '[This] becomes a model'

In 2019, it was estimated that coal plants employed 80,000 people.