Sentences with phrase «island utility worker»
A PSEG Long Island utility worker works on restoring power in East Setauket Tuesday afternoon on Aug. 4, 2015.
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As Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell explained, as tax breaks faded, businesses left the island, and so did workers and utility customers, eating into the revenue of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the unregulated utility monopoly.
And many of the utility workers with intimate knowledge of Puerto Rico's grid have left the island, part of an exodus of more than 300,000 residents between 2000 and 2016.
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PSEG Long Island has implemented a safety procedure aimed at reducing worker fatalities that has also increased customer outages by around 5 percent a year, senior utility officials said.
He says he'll incorporate some of their ideas, like better standardized training for emergency response workers, privatizing the Long Island Power Authority, which had a poor track record restoring power after the storm, and stricter regulation of the other electric utilities.
After centuries of being filled in or diverted, what was left of Coney Island Creek overflowed with such a vengeance that it nearly killed a group of city utility workers trapped by the rising waters.
We understand that not every case can lead to widespread lifestyle improvement, but by focusing attention on wage justice, tenant rights and utility termination, we can seek justice for Rhode Island workers and families one household at a time.