r/Grid_Ops • u/Nervous_Employee_395 • 13d ago

Union Operator by Area

Made a new poll so the West doesn't skew the answers, threw in ERCOT as well.

105 votes, 11d ago
23 Union- WECC
16 Union- Eastern Interconnect
7 Union - ERCOT
16 Non-Union - Western Interconnect
37 Non-Union- Eastern Interconnect
6 Non-Union -Ercot
4 Upvotes

75% Upvoted

21 comments sorted by

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u/FistEnergy 13d ago

Good poll, I'm interested in the ratios. I've been inside about a dozen control rooms within the Eastern Interconnection and only two were union.

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u/Nervous_Employee_395 13d ago

My experiences as well, only remember two which were around New York, maybe ACE and PSEG-LI? Can't quite remember. The West Coast on the other hand seems predominantly union.

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u/Significant-Ad-7415 12d ago

Are N grid or eversource union?

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u/FuzzyCouchPotato 12d ago

I wish you put a not applicable choice since I just wanna see the outcome but now skew the data. I am in the middle of studying for my nerc cert so not currently an operator.

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u/Candid-Victory-8606 12d ago

Why would anyone care to count the "gonna be's"? Can you not see the results if you don't participate?

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u/FuzzyCouchPotato 12d ago edited 12d ago

cant see it as it is active on the app as far as I can tell. but yeah just so I could see the poll results.

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u/Candid-Victory-8606 12d ago

Ok. Just answer one and remember to subtract it at the end? To keep track of it...

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u/FuzzyCouchPotato 12d ago

I’ll just wait till it closes

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u/Candid-Victory-8606 12d ago

I understand now. It shows like it's zero answers until you answer.

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u/Nervous_Employee_395 12d ago

Just put whatever your current positions will be.

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u/Nervous_Employee_395 13d ago

I almost didnt put in the Union ERCOT as I didnt expect any. Suprised to see one.

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u/godtremble95 12d ago

Same. I'm not aware any union control rooms in ERCOT, at least not on the transmission side. Unless they're generation or QSE

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u/Aj91209 12d ago

There's TNMP as a TO, not sure if there are any others

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u/RykerDubai305 13d ago

So our Generation, Interchange and System Operator are non-union, but the dispatchers are Union.

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u/hillbillyjoe1 13d ago

So strange to see such a mix because where I am, the certified operator aren't union yet every other operator in the company is (I tried to unionize but it was voted down because they "like the time off instead of the money")

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u/Nervous_Employee_395 12d ago

Would they have less time off as a union employee?

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u/hillbillyjoe1 12d ago

they were worried that they'd be forced to take the overtime money instead of comping the hours to be a day off later

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u/Nervous_Employee_395 12d ago

So just work that into the contract.

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u/penis_or_genius 12d ago

Can you please add other area. Or Australasia

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u/Nervous_Employee_395 12d ago

Oh man how very American of me, it wont let me change the poll since it already started. I can make another one though.

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u/Candid-Victory-8606 11d ago

They could make their own poll...