City of Redding Ordered to Disclose REU Investigation

An administrative law judge has ordered the city of Redding to disclose a sealed internal report to city workers that contains information about the operations of Redding Electric Utility.

The case stems from an ongoing dispute with Service Employees International Union Local…

Creek Clean-up Opens Trail, Unearths Historical Artifacts

It has been an eventful month since the chainsaws and chippers of the 4^th Annual Community Creek Clean-up became silent along the South Sacramento River Trail.  The unprecedented volunteer labor before, during and after this event have returned to Redding long…

REU Insider Pleads With Redding City Council

The following unsolicited contribution is published as an open letter to the Redding City Council from a city employee (she spoke before the council on Tuesday night).  A News Cafe invites feedback from the city, the council, REU or readers.…

REU Union Files Charges Against Redding

The union that represents some Redding Electric Utility employees has filed follow-up charges (click here to read) with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board against the city of Redding.

The charges, filed Dec. 11, stem from an ongoing dispute over a secret…

A Peek at REU’s Rate-Increase Talk for Tuesday Night

Redding Electric Utility on Tuesday night will ask the Redding City Council to give the go-ahead for a bigger rate increase for 2009 (and several years out) than it had previously planned.

Click here to see the PowerPoint presentation REU will show…

Tense Video of Redding Electric Utility Customer Service Lobby

We were alerted to this three-minute video on YouTube depicting what happened recently when the Redding Electric Utility’s customer service employees union recently tried to tape a survey of residents in the Customer Service lobby at the City Hall office.…

REU employees union files charge against city of Redding

The union that represents Redding Electric Utility employees has upped the ante with the city of Redding in an ongoing dispute centered chiefly in the utility’s customer-service division.

Service Employees International Union filed a complaint Friday with the state Public Employment…

City Hall investigates REU; report sealed

First it was the City Hall sex scandal. Then it was Solid Waste’s Moonlighting Madness Sale. Now the city is mopping up another fine employee mess, this time at Redding Electric Utility.

What started four years ago as a quiet internal…