UWUA Local 132

A.M.I. and CBA Update 2010-03-01 (54.84 kB)

AMI Update 2010-01-19 (47.78 kB)

AMI Update 2010-01-06 (56.1 kB)

Election Guidelines:

Union Election Guidelines (91.03 kB)

Sample Nomination and Acceptance Form:

Sample Nomination and Acceptance Form (21 kB)

Campaigning For Elections:

Campaigning for Election (11.84 kB)

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Meter readers were front and center in the Church meeting attended by PUC Commissioner Simon (see below) and other Commission representatives, as community and labor came together to challenge the Gas company’s expensive experiment with Advanced Metering infrastructure which would eliminate more than 1000 jobs and add to consumer costs.

The amended and restated bylaws, which will bring unity and strength to our struggle for justice at the Gas Co., passed overwhelmingly by almost 3 to 1.  Your vote has given the Local the opportunity for a new beginning in a new year as we begin to move back to local autonomy and begin preparations for the next round of negotiations which will put that unity and strength to the test.

We are pleased that the Mayor of L.A. who has a long history of working with unions including the time he was actually an employee of one, has written a letter in support of the SoCal Gas’s meter readers. They face an uncertain future as the Co. attempts to replace them with more expensive automatic reading equipment which will actually raise rates to consumers. His action was at least in part because of the public campaign now in process by the Local to save these jobs.

Read letter from Mayor Villaraigossa to Michael Peevey, President of the California Public Utility Commisson

Utility Workers Union of America Local 132 represents more than 4,000 production, maintenance, distribution and clerical employees of Southern California Gas.

We won our first collective  bargaining agreement in 1937 and our members cover a geographic area the size of France, from San Luis Obispo in the north to the Mexican border in the south.

Local 132’s history making moments include:

• In 1991, we negotiated the largest pay equity agreement in private industry in the United States. Women won pay increases of between 13 and 27% and, the largest classification of mainly women workers were put at the same pay levels as the largest classification of their male co-workers in the field.
• We pioneered efforts to make boards of directors more accountable by running a candidate for the board of the SoCal Gas’ parent company.
• Local 132 was one of the first unions to get Martin Luther King Jr’s. birthday as a holiday .
• On January 25, 2009, three thousand members voted more than four to one, to strike Southern California Gas Company for a fair contract.  Click on the Photos tab for pictures of the most successful mass meeting in Local 132's history.