From CWA1022
Bargaining continued this week in Rye, NY. In our meetings, the company rejected the Union’s proposals on the Advisory Committee on Healthcare, Healthcare Benefit Coordinators, Pensions, Corporate Profit Sharing and Meal Allowances. The company offered counter-proposals on the Advisory Committee on Healthcare and one part of our proposal on pensions.
We also met and discussed the company Call Sharing proposal. The company provided data and answers to some of the questions we asked last week. Some of the answers created more questions and requests for information. Our discussions on call sharing will continue as the company responds with further data. The talks have recessed for the week and will reconvene on February 6th.
As we continue to fight back against the concessions the company is pushing at the bargaining table, we know it will take the commitment of every member and retiree to send a clear message to management this is a fight we intend to win.
Stay engaged. Stay focused on what is going on during this round of bargaining. The company is attacking our middle class standard of living.
We will send more updates as they become available.
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West Street Rally January 26, 2012. Photo courtesy of Ed Rosado
By Anthony S Jennings
Verizon Communications has been identified as one of the country’s worst tax dodger, earning more than $32 billion in the U.S. alone between 2008 and 2010 – all while paying an effective income tax rate of zero.
Community members [...]
Rally to support Cablevision Workers January 16, 2012. Click on the photo to view the gallery.
January 26, 2012
Today, 282 Brooklyn Cablevision technicians and dispatchers in Brooklyn voted to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA), Local 1109 in a union election administered by National Labor Relations Board, overcoming a vigorous anti-union [...]
By Louis Marinaccio
Years ago, in the days of Ma Bell and her Baby Bells, when ‘the telephone company’ was a monopoly, the baby bells would have to go before the state PSC when they wanted a rate increase. They would have to justify their need for an increase. I remember this would infuriate the public [...]
From 2008 – 2010, Verizon paid no federal income taxes. Anyone that paid even a penny in federal income taxes paid more than Verizon did from 2008 – 2010. On Thursday, January 26th, join picketing and protests throughout the country.
Watch the video and sign the petition to get ready:
CWA is working [...]
Shop Steward Kim Cooper (left) and member Theresa Johnson standing tall with our banner as we leaflet the Water Street Verizon Wireless Store. Photo courtesy of Ed Rosado
This Thursday 285 Brooklyn-based Cablevision workers will vote in a election for union representation.
These workers have withstood a blistering assault on their right to form a union. Instead of coming to the table and discussing the merits of union representation in the open, Cablevision management is truly taking the low [...]
Next Union Hall Call update: Verizon bargaining and the important work CWA activists are doing all across the country.
Click here to sign up now to join the call on Wednesday, January 25 at 7:30 PM EST
During 2012 we will build on the energy and excitement of 2011 as we gain [...]
This Thursday 285 Brooklyn-based Cablevision workers will vote in a election for union representation.
Comcast and Verizon Wireless this week will launch a marketing program in Seattle, Washington and Portland Oregon promoting their respective services to the other’s customers, ahead of regulatory approval of the deal.
Under the trial promotions, customers who [...]
