Local 825 Business Manager Greg Lalevee responds to anti-pipeline editorial with a call for objectivity.
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.”
January 2015 Newsletter is published
November 2014 Newsletter is out
Local 825 and ELEC back PennEast Pipeline construction as stimulus to construction jobs and economic development
For Immediate Release
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.
The September 2014 Newsletter is out
IUOE Local 825 and ELEC praise PSE&G for its job-creation and 10-year, $8.1 billion transmission investment program
For Immediate Release
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.
Jersey City Mayor Fulop Tells Local 825 Operating Engineers Union Labor will Dominate Job Sites During Building Boom
For Immediate Release
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.
The July 2014 Newsletter is published
6 Scholarship and 3 Grant Winners honored at Awards Dinner on June 3, 2014
This year, the members of Local 825 awarded six $10,000 scholarships and three $1,500 grants to high school seniors going on to college. The students were honored with members of their families at the Sheraton Edison on June 3.
The winners and their family members were greeted by Business Manager Greg Lalevee, President John Wood, Vice President John Nacion, Recording Secretary Bob Davis, Financial Secretary Joe Logan and Treasurer Jim McGowan.
This year’s scholarships were awarded to: