{"id":305432,"date":"2026-10-13T01:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305432\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:58:17","slug":"ibew-members-vote-to-ratify-contract-with-duquesne-light-company-after-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305432\/","title":{"rendered":"IBEW members vote to ratify contract with Duquesne Light Company after strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(File Photo of the Duquesne Light Company Logo)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Allegheny County, PA) Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 29 voted yesterday to ratify their contract with Duquesne Light Company (DLC).<\/p>\n<p>This comes after almost 1,000 DLC workers who serve customers in Allegheny and Beaver counties went on strike on October 1st following failed contract negotiations with their employer.<\/p>\n<p>DLC and IBEW Local 29 reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IBEW Local 29 acknowledged the results of the vote in a post on social media and confirmed: \u201cA huge thank you to everyone that supported us and all of our members for standing with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the union, 526 members voted to accept the contract, while 184 voted to reject it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File Photo of the Duquesne Light Company Logo) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Allegheny County, PA) Members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-305432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305432","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=305432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}