IBEW Local 465

Valentine’s Day Car PoleThis morning at 3:00am our San Diego Gas & Electric Troublemen and Crews from our Eastern Yard responded to an emergency hit and run on Lemoncrest Dr in Lakeside. Our members showed up immediately to make the scene safe and restore power to our customers. Thank you to all our members who are spending their Valentine’s Day away from your loved ones serving our communities and keeping the lights on. Our members are heroes and first responders! #EasternBoys #WeAreIBEW465 #IBEW #IBEW465 #ValentinesDay : Ruben Diaz

Is your Valentine’s Day is #UnionMade

It’s #SubstationSaturday! At IBEW Local 465 we proudly represent over 200 Journey-level Substation Electricians at San Diego Gas & Electric and Imperial Irrigation District who build and maintain over 100 substations that power Southern California. Thank you to everyone in our Substation Departments for everything you do to keep the lights on! #WeAreIBEW465 #UnionUtilityWorkers #UnionElectricians #Substation

Happy Lunar New Year to all of our members, friends, and those in our communities who are celebrating today. We wish you and your families prosperity and happiness in the year ahead. For a list of Asian owned business and restaurants to support visit https://helpasianbiz.com, a website that was developed by 17 year old north county high school student Kaia Culotta in response to hearing stories of Asian communities facing discrimination during the pandemic. Her website and... story was featured on 10News ABC San Diego KGTV! Check it out here: https://www.10news.com//teen-creates-site-to-help-asian-am. Xnnián ho! #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #

The John Lyons Memorial Foundation scholarship is accepting applications for 2021! This opportunity is open to all high school students or post-secondary students coming from families of union members in good standing. Check out the application below. #JOHNS #scholarship #1u

Guidelines for the IBEW Local 465 Social Media Pages Originally Posted DECEMBER 14, 2017 No grievances or official union business can be submitted via Social Media. All official union business must be conducted with your Business Representative and/or at your local unit meeting. For a list of Business Representatives and unit meetings, please visit www.ibew465.org. ... Any and all posts, photos and comments pertaining to the Union election are not permitted on this page. This includes candidate promotion/campaigning/endorsements, pictures of ballots and discussion of the election procedures. Posts of this nature will be immediately removed. Hateful speech will not be tolerated. This includes derogatory, demeaning, obscene, offensive, racist or sexist language, as well as attacks on the IBEW, its leaders, officers, staff, members and employers. Violators will be promptly banned from the page. We encourage lively discussion, but please be considerate and don’t hog the comments section. Make your point and then allow others to have a chance to weigh in. This page is for IBEW members, friends and others interested in the labor movement and the work our Brotherhood does. Please keep your comments topical. Don't clog the discussion threads with unrelated materials. SPAM is not permitted here. Any SPAM posts will be promptly removed and the individual may be temporarily or permanently banned from the page. IBEW 465 reserves the right to remove posts and comments including comments that it deems to be in violation of our guidelines. Repeat violators will be banned from the page.

Tomorrow! Tuesday, Oct 27th! Reminder! Our H&W committee will be at the Union Hall from 11am-5pm for Day One of the 2020 ratification of our 2-year H&W agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric. Please feel free to swing by during working hours if you are in the area to cast your ballot. See you all tomorrow at 7444 Trade st, San Diego CA 92121 from 11:00am-5:00pm.

Our prayers are going out to all of the impacted communities, our First Responders, Utility Workers and the two Orange County Fire Authority Firefighters who have been critically injured battling the fast spreading #SilveradoFire in Irvine. Please be safe, stay hydrated and listen to the authorities and evacuate. Thank you to all the essential workers on the frontlines.

We are proud to partner with The Arc of San Diego and Metropolitan Transit System to create these great opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Thank you MTS Chair Nathan Fletcher for honoring these workers for National Disability Empowerment Awareness Month! #WeAreIBEW465

Have you voted yet? There are still nine days left to make your voice count in this year's election! Get the information you need to cast your ballot at https://unionyes.org/voteunion. To find your polling place visit www.sdvote.com for San Diego County and https://elections.imperialcounty.org for imperial county.

It’s #MemberMonday! Today we would like to say THANK YOU to and highlight the work of our amazing Customer Billing, Credit and Payment Center Workers at the Imperial Irrigation District! These sisters have worked since day one of this COVID pandemic ensuring customers can still make payment arrangements and stay up to date on their utility bills. Although IID has a moratorium on disconnections due to non-payment, it is critical that we maintain constant communication with... our impacted communities as a resource for assistance. The work these sisters do is critical to the continue operations of the IID and has a direct impact on adressing any pandemic related budget issues. Thank you to all our members at the IID for everything you do! With stress, anxiety and fear at an all time high it is CLEAR that our members deserve a RAISE! Our members at the IID are essential, not expendable. IBEW Local 465 will not stop fighting until we win a contract that our members deserve! Thank you to all our members who have joined together in this battle for higher wages by calling in, emailing the board and getting involved in workplace solidarity actions! Together we will win! #WeAreIBEW465 #ImperialStrong #IVstrong #ImperialValleyStrong #UnionStrong #ProudUnion

Make your plan, vote early, return your ballot: workersfirstvoteunion.org

Sunday is family time! All of us at IBEW 465 send our love to all of our members this Sunday and hope we can all find some time to enjoy our loved ones today. Everything we do is for our families and with so much on our plates it’s important to reflect on what grounds us and keeps our batteries charged for whatever lies ahead. Finding a good work-life balance and sharing time with loved ones is important for our mental health and longevity which are critical in our dangerous trades. We are all in this together and we will make it through this. #FamilyTime #WeAreIBEW465 #FamilyFirst

Power Outage: We are currently experiencing a power outage affecting 652 customers on 50th Ave., Tyler St., Polk St., Dillon Rd., South of I-10 in Coachella. Troubleshooter en route. Updates to follow.

San Diego Gas & Electric

TODAY IN LABOR HISTORY: On October 24th, 1892, in New Orleans a strike was organized by three key unions that formed a partnership the Triple Alliance. The three unions were the white Scalesmen and Packers unions and the Black Teamsters. Scalesmen and Packers were skilled laborers. Scalesmen’s labor was that of weighing commodities, a function that determined the value, the exchange value or selling price of a commodity. Packers were those laborers who loaded or ‘packed’ co...mmodities for shipment on vessels such as boats, trains or other moving vehicles. Packers had specific tools to pack or ‘screw’ the commodities in place. Teamsters were those laborers considered not as skilled as scalesmen and packers. Teamsters moved commodities by carriages, wagons, drays (carts) as drivers and general laborers. On October 24, these three unions went on strike for a shorter work day (10-hour day), overtime pay for after 60 hours and a union shop. There were between two to three thousand workers on strike. The city’s employing class (banks, stevedores, foundries, hotels, merchants, etc.) was struck with terror. Less than 30 years after the end of the Civil War, and with the counterrevolution of Reconstruction, Black and white workers united to walk out for joint demands. . . . Credit to : IBEW Local 11 RENEW #todayinlaborhistory #LaborHistory #IBEW #SoCal #Cali #IBEWLocal465 #RENEW #ReachOutAndEngageNextGenerationElectricalWorkers #NextGeneration #NextGen #ElectricalWorkers #JourneyPerson #Apprentice #Apprenticeship #UnionElectrician #solidarity #YoungWorkers #Solidarity #Organizedlabor #Electrician #Laborhistory #UnionStrong #HonorLabor #OrganizeOrganizeOrganize #DontMourneOrganize #1u

Too much of this going on and it needs to stop. No room for RATS in the IBEW. #NoRats #NoSnitching