IBEW 1900 Members Head to NYC to Help Restore Power

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)A team of Pepco workers – members of IBEW 1900 – headed up to New York City yesterday to help restore power. “Con Edison has asked for mutual assistance regarding their underground system,” reports Local 1900 president Jim Griffin. Pepco “put together a group of 10 Transformer Shop testers, 10 Underground Cable Splicers, and two Auto Mechanics along with a couple of supervisors and a Safety Specialist” who headed up to New York from Pepco's Benning Road complex in Northeast DC. “Most don't realize that there is a vast underground network of feeders, transformers and the like as part of the entire electric distribution system of a utility,” Griffin noted. “Water is its nemesis just as wind and falling trees are to our overhead system.” Read more reports in the AFL-CIO Now Blog: Union Members Hard at Work During Hurricane Sandy. - photo: Consolidated Edison Inc. workers making post-storm repairs in New York on October 30, 2012; photo by Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg