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News, 2004-5

Society Newscasts and NewsFLASHes, 2004-2005

2004:06, March 24, 2005

  • Hydro One Local: 97 per cent say yes to strike mandate

2004:12, March 18, 2005

  • Hydro One Local seeks strike mandate
  • Executive Board highlights: March 1, 2005
  • Society and SPEA sign servicing agreement
  • Society: OEB price plan setting up consumers for more punishment
  • Society to Minister: Ignore proposed customer grab
  • Canadian Nuclear Association: "This will be the year"
  • Carr: OPA "transitional"`
  • Society sponsors team in robotics competition
  • U.K. embassy and consular staff in U.S. join IFPTE
  • Meet Leo Wong

2004:11, February 25, 2005

  • Minister to regulate OPG's "unregulated" assets
  • Hydro One conciliation-bound
  • Bruce Power agreement ratified
  • Arbitrator rules on agreement for Kinectrics Local
  • Society to Minister: study Lakeview closing
  • Society ad wins award
  • Bruce Power scientist: more nuclear power needed to achieve Kyoto targets
  • The Alternative Federal Budget: the real story

2004:05, February 14, 2005

  • Society releases legal opinion: Electricity changes violate NAFTA

2004:10, January 31, 2005

  • Bruce Power Local voting on five-year agreement
  • Kinectrics: two-party bargaining skids to a halt
  • Premier: Electricity changes hardly worth mentioning
  • Minister: OPG's hydroelectric well run; Society agrees
  • OPA head: Government should re-think resistance to coal, OPA temporary, maybe
  • Toronto Hydro repeats environmental award win
  • Society retiree wants second PEO term
  • UofT Prof: Our shirts may re-charge our cellphones
  • Canada's unemployment rate lowest since May, 2001

2004:04, January 14, 2005

  • Society sends $20,000 to South Asia tsunami relief effort

2004:09, December 22, 2004

  • Happy holidays!
  • Board highlights, Dec. 7, 2004
  • Bill 100 gets third reading
  • Müller: Bill 100 campaign brings a number of successes, not over
  • OPG agreements ratified
  • Report: Ontario needs coal
  • New Brunswick: Premier won't rush Lepreau decision
  • Hydro One increases inter-tie with Michigan
  • CLC applauds Employment Insurance recommendations

2004:08, December 6, 2004

  • Minister: Maybe we won't shut down all the coal after all
  • Forge, Jones re-elected
  • Board highlights, November 2, 2004
  • Society visits Ontario legislature, pans lack of Bill 100 amendments
  • Citizens' Task Force on Electricity begins work
  • Society, OPG ink new agreement in two-party negotiations
  • New Horizon bargaining: Management walks away
  • Conway: OPG should be split
  • Closing the coal-fired stations: $2 billion per year?
  • Hydropower conference: Water, wind go together
  • Young Generation Nuclear launches Bruce Power branch
  • In Remembrance: "Warrior Queen" of health and safety

2004:07, October 8, 2004

  • Müller: Society changes the "right moves"
  • Council passes electricity, bargaining, strike policies
  • Society launches "Amend Bill 100" web-site
  • Müller acclaimed; elections for Vice Presidents 
  • Hydro One: the second invasion of Florida
  • Society protects NSS bargaining unit
  • Safety always first in IMO-administered markets
  • ABB in Guelph saved from closure: IFPTE credited
  • IBEW campaigns for Point Lepreau refurbishment
  • ESA celebrates fifth anniversary
  • PWU breaks with Liberals
  • Brighton Beach Power online
  • Bruce Power prepares for new fuel demonstration
  • CLC to formulate new industrial policy
  • NDP researcher Gloger dies

2004:06, September 20, 2004

  • International Panel: "Deregulation won't deliver"
  • Board highlights: September 8, 2004
  • Principal Officer nominations closed: Müller acclaimed
  • Bruce UD elections-one incumbent unseated 
  • Unit 6 election: Khalil elected
  • New Horizon UDs acclaimed
  • In the wake of Frances, Hydro One helps put Florida back together
  • Parkinson “CEO of the year”
  • Society organizes first appearance at Toronto Labour Day parade


2004:05, September 2, 2004

  • Lavish attention paid to Society-commissioned paper
  • Transition task force needed, Society says
  • Society members speak out on Bill 100
  • Society campaign to improve Bill 100 heats up 
  • Georgetti: Unions make a difference
  • Bruce Power employee spearheading youth branch
  • Study: Natural gas an "unattractive option" for baseload generation
  • UNI web-bridge project completed, Ghanaian web-sites launched

2004:04, July 20, 2004

  • Board highlights: July 6, 2004
  • Charges laid in Barrett Chute tragedy
  • New IFPTE organizers work out of Society office

2004:03, July 7, 2004

  • Pickering A Unit 1 gets go-ahead

2004:03, June 30, 2004

  • Dues reduced, as $1M transferred to CAR fund
  • Legislative committees back on
  • Board highlights: June 1, 2004
  • Happy Canada Day! 
  • Hydro One Local Council meets
  • Cragg retires
  • UDs elected
  • Poll: Ontarians most pro-nuclear
  • New CEO appointed for Toronto Hydro
  • Meet Denise Coombs
  • The heroes stay at home
  • Low level of aid "unacceptable"

2004:02, June 15, 2004

  • New bureaucracy by January 1st to buy expensive power

2004:02, May 10, 2004

  • Minister to Atikokan: Jobs protected
  • Society polling: Public power support rock solid
  • Mourning fallen workers
  • Government to require provincial licences for electrical contractors 
  • Society obtains clarification of CLC nuke policy
  • Hydro One Local ratifies bylaws, first Local Council to meet
  • California engineers, architects join IFPTE local
  • World's Electricity: Electricity workers fight privatization in France

2004:01, April 15, 2004

  • Society questions new electricity vision

2004:01, April 13, 2004

  • Board Highlights: April 6, 2004
  • Minister to announce new electricity policy April 15th
  • Society responds to OPG Review
  • OPG units awarded three per cent in one-year deal
  • Heilandt, Muir, Neil Local VP winners
  • Society: Audit shows OPG scapegoat for failed Harris-Eves policies
  • AECL in partnership to build new CANDU reactor in U.S.
  • New website for Society
  • UNI signs global deal with Scandinavian corporation
  • Judge says union workers safer