We did it! After months of negotiations, we are proud to announce that ESC Local 20 and Centro Legal De La Raza have reached a 2-year Collective Bargaining Agreement. This historic successor contract builds on gains we made in our first CBA (2019-2021) and Extension Agreement (2021-2022). It boosts pay by 8.2%-15.9% in 2022 and […]

PG&E Newsletter March 2022 Agreement to have many ESC hourly classifications included in Pre-Arranged Overtime (POT) at Emergency Overtime (EOT) rate during major storm events ESC has secured an agreement with management to treat POT like EOT during major electric events (opening of an Operations Emergency Center)! ESC-represented classifications in Construction, Estimating, Mapping, and Service […]

PG&E management has asked to include certain ESC classifications in their planned offering of voluntary separation packages. Management cites a need to reduce earnings-impacting expenses as the driver of the offering of the separation packages. The Union is concerned about how the work will be done, the reduction of experienced employees, the impact that will […]

July 12th, 2022: The Union and management reached an agreement that makes continuing to work remotely possible for all ESC members. The agreement will be posted on the Union’s website. This agreement was important because, without it, hourly paid members would have reverted to the contract with the impending “return to the office” scheduled by […]

September 28th, 2022 Today, PG&E announced that it intends to create a subsidiary of PG&E that will incorporate its non-nuclear generation. ESC has been told that it is PG&E’s intent to remain the majority shareholder in the subsidiary “Pacific Generation.” Importantly for ESC members, the subsidiary is to be staffed, in ESC roles, by PG&E […]