What’s New at IBEW Local 159?

If you are applying for an electrical apprenticeship, the deadline is THIS Friday, April 16. If you are currently a CW, and/or you have applied in the past, but you have NOT applied recently: make sure your application is current. (Last application deadline was December. Next will be August.) Contact Local 159 office to apply: office@ibew159.org

The Wisconsin Dept. of Workforce Development recently launched an upgraded Unemployment Claims Portal. The goal is to make it easier to navigate the Unemployment system.
*Learn more here.
*To apply for Unemployment, visit here.

Today the labor movement is driving calls into the U.S. Senate urging support and passage of the #PROAct.

⏱️Will you take 5 minutes and make the call? #1u

Click here: go.aflcio.org/call

(Who are my Senators? In Wisconsin: Senator Tammy Baldwin, Senator Ron Johnson.)

Update (below) from IBEW Local 494.
News coverage from Urban Milwaukee.

Public-Facing Essential Workers are eligible to get vaccinated now (scroll down to recent post, “Local 159: Time to Bare an Arm!”). Why wait, visit the Wisconsin DHS registry, and sign up today.

All Wisconsinites age 16+ are eligible for the vaccine as of April 5. There are now also seven new pharmacy chains offering vaccines. If you have not been vaccinated, and are not signed up, there has never a better time to sign up.