The ''Unión de Trabajadores de la Industria Eléctrica y Riego'' (UTIER) —English: ''Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union''— is one of the
labor union
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s that represents workers from the
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. The union was founded on May 3, 1942 by thirty seven
linemen
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In personal roles:
*Lineworker, one who installs and maintains electrical power, telephone, or telegraph lines
*Lineman (gridiron football), a position in American football
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in
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John (disambiguation), Saint John, most commonly refers to:
* San Juan, Puerto Rico
* San Juan, Argentina
* San Juan, Metro Manila, a highly urbanized city in the Philippines
San Juan may also refer to:
Places Arge ...
,
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
.
At some point it was affiliated with the
Free Federation of Workers and the
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations but it eventually unaffiliated and became independent.
Today, the union represents about 4,800 workers.
External links
utier.org - official site
References
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