It brings us great sadness to inform you that our dear friend and brother Richard Manzo passed away last night, October 1, 2008, surrounded by his loving family.

Rich was a member of IBEW Local Union 488 for 42 years.  He loved being a part of our local and always went out of his way to help anyone who needed it.  Rich worked tirelessly in many capacities on behalf of all our members.  Throughout his career Rich was on many Committees including the JATC, Scholarship, Negotiating, and Outing Committee where he served as Chairman.  Rich was a union steward or foreman on many jobs including Union Carbide where he was Superintendant for Valenti Electric. 

Richie's greatest accomplishments came  by serving as an officer of Local 488 for many years.  Richard served as a member of the Executive Board,  Fund Trustee, and finished his career here as President and Assistant Business Manager.  Rich will be remembered by all of us as a true friend and brother.

IBEW Local 488 member Willie McBride is running for the position of Employee Representative on the Civil Service Commission for the City of Bridgeport.  We are proud to support Willie in this election, and we are asking you to please do the same. 

Ballots are being mailed out this week to all employees of the City of Bridgeport.  If you have any friends, family or neighbors that are employed by the City of Bridgeport, please urge them to vote for Willie McBride. 

Brother McBride currently serves our Local Union in several capacities.  He is member of the Local 488 Executive Board and our Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee.  He is also an electrician and the Stewart for all of the tradesmen and women employed by the City of Bridgeport.  Willie does a tremendous job in all of these capacities and we have no doubt that he will be an excellent representative on the Civil Service Commission for the City of Bridgeport.

Have you changed your email address lately?  Are you receiving emails from IBEW Local Union 488?    If not, let us know about it. 

Over the past week, several emails with important membership information went out and each time we received a number of "Undeliverable Mail" messages returned back to us.  This could be for a couple of different reasons.  Perhaps you changed email providers or just your email address and didn't update it on the member information portion of our site.  If this is the case, please sign in as a member and update your profile with us.  The more probable reason is that when an email goes out to a large group of people, some email filters may see it as "spam" or "junk mail" and reject the email.  To ensure our members don't miss out on important information in the future, we ask you to go into your email system and allow your filter to receive emails from the following addresses: jatc488@sbcglobal.net and lu488ibew@aol.com.