


9 Scholarship Winners to be honored at Awards Dinner on June 3, 2015
This year, the members of Local 825 awarded the largest number of scholarships in the fund’s history. Nine $10,000 scholarships were awarded to graduating high school seniors who plan to attend college in the fall of 2015.
This year’s scholarships were awarded to:
Business Manager Greg Lalevee represents Local 825 at NJ Spotlight roundtable
On May 29, 2015, NJ Spotlight presented a public roundtable on the pros and cons of pipeline construction in the Garden State.
Business Manager Greg Lalevee presented the Local 825 viewpoints. If you’d prefer to read NJ Spotlight’s written coverage, click here.

May 2015 Newsletter is published
Operating Engineers Local 825 backs PSE&G 5-year proposal to replace aging gas infrastructure
For Immediate Release
$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.

Mar 2015 Newsletter is published

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.