This month the CSAEW is focusing on worker safety, and the growing mental health crisis in our profession. A special shoutout to the thousands of electrical lineworkers in California and Nevada who keep our power running during summer heat, rainstorms and ferocious winds. Every year we honor these brave men and women who climb utility…
From IBEW.org The IBEW has an admirable track record of prioritizing, and securing, physical safety. It’s one of the reasons Henry Miller started the IBEW in 1891. What wasn’t addressed as much in the past was mental health. Today, more and more locals are offering support and trainings on how to deal with the issue….
More than 100 people from Pacific Northwest locals, NECA chapters and the mental health industry convened at Portland, Ore., Local 48 in October for a transformational summit on mental health. “In all my years as a rep, I’ve never seen so many people engaged like that,” Ninth District International Representative Dave Myers said. “It was…