International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1307

9095 Bi-State Boulevard, Delmar, MD 21875

           Local Union 1307 was first chartered 63 years ago on January 9, 1942 as a sixteen member unit who were employed by Eastern Shore Public Service Company (ESPS) in Salisbury, MD.  The membership continued to grow as the company grew by way of customers and mergers.  ESPS became Delmarva Power & Light Company (DP&L) in the sixties, then following the merger of DP&L and Atlantic City Electric became Conectiv in Wilmington, DE in the late nineties.  Today due to the 2002 merger of Potomac Electric Power Company and Conectiv, they are known as Pepco Holdings, Inc. of Washington, DC.

In 1995 the International office merged two small eastern shore Local Unions into Local 1307.  Those units were Local 1707, chartered in Denton, MD on June 1, 1951 with 55 members working for Choptank Electric Cooperative (CEC)and Local 2120, chartered in Parksley, VA on August 1, 1962 with sixteen members working for Accomac & Northhampton Electric Cooperative (ANEC).

In 2000, a new unit was formed with Conectiv Resources, Inc. to establish a new customer care Call Center in Salisbury, MD. Its members were merged into the mother unit in 2005.

In 2001, Conectiv sold its generation assets that were located in our service area to NRG Energy, Inc. of  Minnesota, most recently of  New Jersey.  Today that unit has about 145 members working in two power plants, Indian River Plant, a fossil fuel facility at Millsboro, DE and Vienna Plant, a fossil fuel facility at Vienna, MD.

            At its peak in the mid-seventies, the Local had a membership of about 759 members, all who were employed at DP&L.  Today the Local represents about 600 members from four different companies, under four separate working agreements covering three states, DE, MD & VA in a service territory know as the Delmarva Peninsula.