Findings of Fact

1. Local 483 is a non-profit labor organization whose members include customers of SDG&E and SoCalGas.

2. The purpose of Local 483 is to protect, maintain and advance the interests of the workers, to improve working conditions, and to secure adequate remuneration for its members; to secure equal pay for equal work, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, age, or national origin; to extend unionism on the basis of industrial organization; to secure legislation in the interest of all working people; to promote recognition and acceptance of true collective bargaining in industry, and to increase public understanding and support of the labor movement, consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the Utility Workers Union of America.

3. The Utility Workers Union of America is an organization of members who commit to, among other things:

_          Stay united and recognize our common ground and goals and not be divided by forces of discrimination, corporate action or disharmony;

_          Participate in our democratic society and insure that unions maintain a vital and central role in the political, social and economic life of our country;

_          Work for social and economic justice;

_          Leave the workplace a better place for our children and our children's children.  

4. Local 483, under its Constitution, has jurisdiction over those employees of Pacific Enterprises who, by agreement, certification or other means it is authorized to represent.

5. Local 483 is a participant representing consumers, as defined in § 1802(b) in category (i).

6. Local 483 is a representative authorized by a customer, as defined in § 1802(b) in category (ii).

7. Local 483 is organized to, or authorized by it constitution, to represent its members as residential ratepayers, as defined in § 1802(b) in category (iii).

8. Local 483 has not yet made a showing to justify its expense estimate.