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    Looks like the crane company is Axis Crane they...

    Looks like the crane company is Axis Crane they are union through IUOE 701. The power company is Central Lincoln Peoples Utility District. I found several other links on the accident.
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    http://www.kgw.com/video/featured-videos/Caught-on...

    http://www.kgw.com/video/featured-videos/Caught-on-cam-Alsea-Bay-crane-collapse-195564871.html

    Here is the video, not sure who the contractor or power company is.
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    The union contractors up north in the mid-west...

    The union contractors up north in the mid-west pay $23 to $30 depending on where you work. If that helps. Most contractors up here will still hire you with a felony as long as you have a good drivers...
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    There were 4 people involved. The pilot and 3...

    There were 4 people involved. The pilot and 3 linemen. There was one lineman killed. His name is Gary Bland and his is out of LU 84. The pilot suffered some cracked vertebras. The other 2...
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    Comed Utility worker Brunt in Northern IL

    At approximately 14:00 9/22/2010 in Wayne, IL and Elgin C&M OH Electrician received an electrical shock when he made contact with a live front transformer that was being back-fed by a ComEd...
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    Portability

    Is this young lineman getting ported in under the new 10 portability rule on transmission work? Maybe that is how he is getting around the book 2 foreman rule. Just a thought.

    Or maybe he is...
  7. Bird man

    I heard he was a bird watcher. An environmentalist that was out at night counting some type of Owl.

    Still sad that it happened.
  8. Not 10%

    Its 10 man portability not percent. Then 1 local hand, then 1 ported in, till the job is filled. It is also per job not per local.

    This makes lots of locals very upset. :mad:
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    Back to the original post

    Line work is slow for the non-union just like the union side of outside construction. There are guys working all over but some have to travel to get work. One old timer told me that when the...
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    I heard from some buddies up north that the truck...

    I heard from some buddies up north that the truck was a single man trouble man truck 45ft. Comed (utility) has their guys work alone a lot. They said the truck was leaning and he was scared to move...
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    Do you guys think this is because 47 & 1245 are...

    Do you guys think this is because 47 & 1245 are Utility locals as well as outside construction? It's got to be the same men negotiating both contracts. Maybe the BA's are not kissing the...
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    Fireman rescued utility Lineman from bucket?

    May 11, 2010
    Sun-Times Media Wire
    Fire crews rescued a Commonwealth Edison worker and another employee after their utility truck began to sink on soft ground Tuesday afternoon, leaving him...
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    Highplains Drifter if your local is 1250 or 426...

    Highplains Drifter if your local is 1250 or 426 in SD they only have 31 total outside members between both. I don't think portability in the state of SD is a problem. But maybe you were talking...
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    One Big Local

    When did the IBEW become local brothers only? I thought International Brotherhood was all of us.

    So some locals are entire states while others are just 4 counties right? Who decided the...
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    Drifter- There is time to talk but most Jry...

    Drifter- There is time to talk but most Jry Lineman are to busy bragging about what and where they have been. I had several Aps tell me that they were dragging as soon as they top out. They got...
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    Highplains Drifter I do not disagree with you on...

    Highplains Drifter I do not disagree with you on these issues of men out there being selfish and greedy. I can say I have done the same thing on storm work. I have quit jobs in my local I should of...
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    I've seen lots of post of guys coming in an...

    I've seen lots of post of guys coming in an screwing the local hands out of work. If the UNION contractor brings in UNION lineman, where does everyone think they came from? They are from another...
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    I don't post but do read the threads. I'm not...

    I don't post but do read the threads. I'm not sure if 100% portability is the answer to helping the contractors keep the work union here in Illinois or in the south were the contractor can't compete...
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