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$320 million a year program would create 500 direct jobs
Springfield, NJ – March 2, 2015 – International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825 today announced support for PSE&G’s proposal to invest $1.6 billion over the next 5 years to modernize its gas systems.
As business manager of an organization with 6,500 members, most of whom reside and raise their families in New Jersey, I would like to take issue with several of the points in the Jan. 2 Press editorial, “New pipelines aren’t good energy policy.”
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SPRINGFIELD, NJ, Sept. 2, 2014 – Operating Engineers Local 825 and the Engineers Labor-Employer Cooperative (ELEC) today jointly announced full support for a proposed 100-mile long pipeline from Luzerne County, Pa., into New Jersey.
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SPRINGFIELD, NJ, AUG. 28, 2014 – Operating Engineers Local 825 joined with other regional economic development organizations to acknowledge PSE&G as an “economic engine,” as reported in a study conducted by Rutgers University.
The study details how PSE&G’s $8.1 billion transmission investment program will support 6,000 jobs annually and generate more than 4.3 billion in salary and benefits and more than $640 million in state and local government revenue.
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EAST BRUNSWICK NJ, JULY 8, 2014 – Jersey City Mayor Steven M. Fulop told Local 825 operating engineers last night, “We’re making sure that union labor dominates job sites all around Jersey City.”
Speaking at the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 825 semiannual meeting at the East Brunswick Hilton, Fulop told nearly 300 union members that, thanks to a building boom, Jersey City will be the state’s largest city by 2016.
