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New Jersey utility denies turning away nonunion electric crew volunteers

Started by vedha.v, Nov 03, 2012, 12:26 PM

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 A New Jersey power company denied Friday that it is turning away nonunion volunteer crews who want to travel great distances to help reconnect power supplies severed by Hurricane Sandy. But an Alabama utility is clarifying that it was the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers [IBEW] — not the company — that turned them away.

But crews from Alabama got the shock of their lives when other workers in a coastal New Jersey town told them they couldn't lend a hand without a union card.As a result, crews from Decatur and Huntsville left the Jersey shore and headed to Long Island to pitch in.

WAFF's Mark Thornton reported that Moore and his coworkers "are frustrated being told, in essence, 'thanks, but no thanks.'"