Duquesne Light
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Duquesne Light was one of the dozens of companies founded by inventor George Westinghouse and for its first 75 years of operation (1870s-1940s) was a subsidiary of the holding company known as the "Philadelphia Company".
In May 2007, Duquesne was acquired by a consortium led by affiliates of the Macquarie Group Limited. The consortium consists of several institutional investors which own all of the common equity of our parent company, DQE Holdings, LLC.
Duquesne Light contract expires September 30, 2013.
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Tentative Agreement Reached with Duquesne Light
Local 29 reached an agreement with Duquesne Light Company to conduct an early negotiation session for the contract that expires September 30th of this year. Both sides agreed to meet the week of February 8th with a goal...
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Early Negotiations with Duquesne Light
Message From Business Manager, Jeff Davis An agreement was reached with Duquesne Light Company to hold Early Contract Negotiations to replace the existing contract which expires on September 30, 2016. We have...
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Duquesne Light Part Time Agreement Reached
The Local 29 agreement with Duquesne Light that allows the Company to have part timeCustomer Service Representatives was originally set to expire on April 30th of this year. The Company and Union agreed to extend the...
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T&D Operators Reject Agreement with Duquesne
The Troubleshooters, Traveling Operators and Senior Operators that perform switching, emergency response and answer customer calls were presented an agreement that would have paid each of them $7,000 in exchange for...
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Additional Health Plans for Duquesne Light
The Company and the Union met several times in the month of August on the subject of healthcare. The meeting subject was looking for options for the membership at Duquesne to help with the Highmark vs. UPMC issue. If...
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Tentative Agreement Reached
The negotiating Committees of Local 29 and Duquesne Light Company met on Saturday, September 28th and Monday, September 30th with a Federal Mediator in attendance. Late in the evening of Monday, the last day of the...
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Federal Mediator Being Brought Into Duquesne Negotiations
Message from Business Manager Jeff Davis. The Union and the Company met every day from Monday, September 16th through Friday, September 20th. Very little progress was made during this week. In an effort to get the...
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Duquesne Light Negotiations Crawls Along
We met with the Company three days this week. We had an Arbitration case for a fired member with them one day and also a day of scheduled meetings with FirstEnergy at Beaver Valley. There was no real progress to report...
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Davis: DLCO Negotiations Update
Message from Business Manager Jeff Davis: We met with the Company on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. I wish that we could say that we made great progress and are close to an agreement, but no such luck. No...
