Local 150 represents employees in Pipeline Industry throughout its jurisdiction and beyond.  Local 150 members are employed directly by gas companies, utility companies, gas distribution companies and contractors which provide services to those employers.  Many of the companies that employ Local 150 members contract with national companies to establish pipelines linking natural gas, oil, and other fields of natural resources to distribution facilities, and then on to consumers.  As a result, Local 150 members often find themselves working all over the world in some of the most dangerous and difficult working conditions imaginable. 

           From the deserts of the war-torn Middle East to the frozen tundra of Canada and Alaska to the jungles of the Amazon, Local 150 members perform dangerous tasks such as testing old gas mains; testing and replacing natural gas, petroleum, oil, and other utility lines; and installing new pipelines. In performing such tasks, Local 150 members operate heavy equipment such as sidebooms, dozers, trackhoes, pickers, and boom trucks. Local 150 members working in the pipeline industry are highly skilled, highly mobile, and highly adaptable. These members are a rare breed in a Union made up of men and women who are anything but ordinary!