IBEW Local 96 RENEW

RENEW is hosting a Candlepin bowling night at Mohegan bowl in Webster tomorrow Friday 5/31 7:30-9:30. Free admission with a current dues receipt. Come bowl for the brotherhood!!!! 51 Thompson Rd Webster MA, 01570

Monthly meeting tonight!
RENEW 5:30
General meeting 6:00

!!Brother in need!!

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We’d like to announce that today marks Dana’s 20 years of service with Local 96! Let’s make sure we show her our appreciation!

Come on down and pick up our new shirts at the local 96 union hall!

Thank you to the IBEW Local 96 4th year class for participating in Earth Day Clean up. We love this city of Worcester and aim to keep it clean!

Raise em’ right!!

Join us for our monthly union meeting tonight January 9th
Renew meeting before the monthly
At the local 96 union hall!
Lets bring in the new year! See you there!

Tis the season 🎄
Christmas meeting Tonight!
Brothers and sisters we welcome you to tonights meeting at the local 96 union hall at 6pm tonight. Renew meeting at 5pm.
Hope to see you there!

Join us for our Monthly Union Meeting tonight at 6pm at the Local 96 Union hall!
Renew meeting at 5pm before the monthly.
Hope to see everyone there!

October is National Month and we believe in removing the stigma around substance misuse and helping those in recovery. Lorraine Martin, NSC President and CEO, honored the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 103 at the in San Diego for their work creating a model sobriety program to help save lives. Learn more from the IBEW Local 103 story here: https://bit.ly/3TvdHpI.

Find NSC workplace impairment resources here: https://bit.ly/ImpairmentNSCResources.

"Stepping Stones" by IWW cartoonist 'Dust' Wallin

Come to our monthly union meeting tonight
Renew meeting before the monthly
Hope to see you there
We are strength in numbers!

“Which side are you on?”

You. Are. The Union.

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Come to the Union Meeting tonight , renew meeting at 5pm before the monthly! Hope to see you there! Lets go 96

Local 96 thanks the brave first responders who assisted on this day. We mourn the loss of those who had fallen during this tragic event. We will never forget.

TODAY IN LABOR HISTORY: The Battle of Blair Mountain, August 25, 1921. The largest armed workers uprising in US labor history.

“The coal industry was essentially the state’s sole source of work, and massive corporations built homes, general stores, schools, churches and recreational facilities in the remote towns near the mines. For miners, the system resembled something like feudalism. Sanitary and living conditions in the company houses were abysmal, wages were low, and state politicians supported wealthy coal company owners rather than miners.”

Doug Estepp, a local historian who runs tours of the area, told NPR in 2011 that some of the companies had contracts prohibiting and punishing miners trying to organize into the fledgling unions:
“They had the yellow-dog contract which said that, basically, if you took a job at this mine, you could not associate with anyone in the union, you couldn’t join. You were basically fired, blacklisted and evicted — and probably beaten on the way out by the guards just for good measure.”

A gunfight in the spring of that year between Baldwin-Felts agents and a pro-union group, including Matewan, West Virginia’s police chief, ended with 10 dead, including the town’s mayor. Less than a year later, after the chief was acquitted by a local jury, Baldwin-Felts agents gunned down both him and his deputy on the courthouse steps.

This blatant assassination fueled the fire, rallying 10,000-plus miners to wage war on the agents, the coal company, and, when President Harding saw the need, federal troops with leftover World War I munitions. For more than a week, the area felt like a relentless war zone to area residents, according to James Green, author of The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia’s Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom.

When the smoke cleared on the Battle of Blair Mountain, an estimated 1 million rounds were fired, dozens were killed, and 985 miners were arrested. The uprising was suppressed, but public awareness about the appalling conditions in which the miners were forced to live, work, and raise their families grew considerably.