{"id":297495,"date":"2026-10-01T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297495\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:34:11","slug":"duquesne-light-company-and-union-fail-to-reach-agreement-strike-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297495\/","title":{"rendered":"Duquesne Light Company and union fail to reach agreement, strike begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duquesne Light Company and union fail to reach agreement, strike begins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/f72cd9ce-f724-4353-b00b-75b6f68bbfd9\" aria-label=\"Jordan Cioppa profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f72cd9ce-f724-4353-b00b-75b6f68bbfd9_1741638211.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jordan Cioppa\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Nearly 1,000 union employees at Duquesne Light Company walked off the job Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">A strike was initiated after the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 29 and DLC failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement before midnight Thursday. The old contract expired at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Dozens of workers picketed outside of the DLC Woods Run facility off New Beaver Avenue. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">A few weeks ago, DLC workers with IBEW Local 29 voted to authorize a strike.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The union said the workers faced inadequate staffing levels, deteriorating working conditions, and unresolved safety and operational issues.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Union leaders blamed staffing shortages for extended power outages and pointed to the aftermath of storms on April 29, 2025, as an example. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">In September, more than 300 DLC field workers signed off on a letter of no confidence to DLC CEO Kevin Walker, claiming the company\u2019s leadership team failed \u201cto address serious safety concerns, operational inefficiencies, and technology barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 saw more than a dozen trucks from an out-of-state company called Southern States Utility enter the DLC Woods Run facility off New Beaver Avenue on Wednesday, hours ahead of the strike. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">When asked if DLC would deploy backup workers, a spokesperson for the utility said: <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">\u201cAs an essential service provider, safety and reliability are our core priorities, and we are prepared to activate operational continuity plans in the event of a work stoppage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">IBEW Local 29 business manager Joshua Ewing said members will stand on the picket lines in shifts to maintain a 24\/7 presence until a deal is reached. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duquesne Light Company and union fail to reach agreement, strike begins PITTSBURGH \u2014 Nearly 1,000 union employees at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[122869,122870,28365,4521,120190,122868,122873,122871,73,75,74,17035,2957,4500,122872,122867,2583,11580],"class_list":["post-297495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-dlc-woods-run-facility","tag-dlc-worker","tag-dozen","tag-duquesne-light-company","tag-ibew-local","tag-new-beaver-avenue","tag-operational-inefficiency","tag-operational-issue","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-staffing-shortage","tag-strike","tag-union","tag-union-leader","tag-unresolved-safety","tag-wednesday","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}