Deadline for applications: January 31, 2014 at 12pm

Since 1992, the Union Plus Scholarship Program has awarded more than $3.5 million to students of union families. Over 2,300 union families have benefited from our commitment to higher education.

The Union Plus Scholarship Program is offered through the Union Plus Education Foundation, which is sponsored by Union Privilege. Your union membership entitles you to a family of Union Plus benefits including: College Test Prep Discounts, AT&T Wireless Discounts, Budget Truck Rental Discounts and much more. See a full list of your Union Plus benefits here.

The Union Plus Education Foundation is funded in part by donations from Capital One N.A., the provider of the Union Plus Credit Card. (You donot need to be a Union Plus Credit Card holder to apply for this scholarship.)

Scholarship Award Amounts: Amounts range from $500 to $4,000. These one-time cash awards are for study beginning in the fall of 2014. Students may re-apply each year.

Award Date: The Scholarship Committee will determine recipients of scholarship awards by May 31, 2014. The first week of June 2014 award recipients will be individually notified by mail. By mid-June all applicants will be sent an email with notification that the award list is posted at UnionPlus.org/Scholarships. Please note that due to the volume of applications we cannot provide any information on the status of an application before award announcements are made.

Application here: https://unionscholarship.communityforce.com/Student/

December 17, 2013|Dan Haar

AT&T has reached a deal to sell its wireline business in Connecticut to Frontier Communications for $2 billion in cash, ending a 15-year venture that led to thousands of job losses as the number of regular phone lines declined, technology improved and the company moved support operations elsewhere.

Stamford-based Frontier, which operates in 27 states, will take over the old Southern New England Telephone Co. business, which legally still has that name. The operations include 2,700 employees, 900,000 wireline telephone connections, 415,000 Internet connections and 180,000 U-verse video subscribers for a total of $1.25 billion in annual revenues, along with the network itself and a lease at AT&T’s New Haven offices.

Read the full story here.

A federal judge in Washington ruled on Monday that the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records by the National Security Agency is likely to violate the US constitution, in the most significant legal setback for the agency since the publication of the first surveillance disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

December 17, 2013 By Spencer Ackerman and Dan Roberts

Judge Richard Leon declared that the mass collection of metadata probably violates the fourth amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, and was “almost Orwellian” in its scope. In a judgment replete with literary swipes against the NSA, he said James Madison, the architect of the US constitution, would be “aghast” at the scope of the agency’s collection of Americans’ communications data.

The ruling, by the US district court for the District of Columbia, is a blow to the Obama administration, and sets up a legal battle that will drag on for months, almost certainly destined to end up in the supreme court. It was welcomed by campaigners pressing to rein in the NSA, and by Snowden, who issued a rare public statement saying it had vindicated his disclosures. It is also likely to influence other legal challenges to the NSA, currently working their way through federal courts.

Read the full story here.

Posted December 4, 2013, 30 listings, click here

Posting Numbers 334600, 334676, 334614, Posted 11-27-13, 367 listings, click here.

December 4, 2013

*****FLASH*****
The vacancies for Central Office Technician (COT) are Article 8 Special Postings open for bidding from 12/4/13 through 12/10/13. These Central Office Technician openings are NOT Specific Posted Vacancies (SPVs). Only Central Office Technicians and TTA-COTs located in Manhattan may apply for these positions.

The Article 8 COT Special Postings scheduled to close on 12/6/13 (Posting Numbers 334600, 334676, 334614) will remain open for bidding through 12/10/13.

PROCESS FOR SPECIAL POSTINGS

Posted for 5 Business Days (12/6/13 – 12/10/13 5:00 p.m.)
Central Office Technician Special Postings are postings in accordance with CWA Plant CBA Article 8, not SPVs.

The Central Office Technician positions will be filled by the senior qualified volunteers from the Central Office Technician or TTA-COT job title in Manhattan. If there are not enough volunteers, qualified Central Office technician and TTA-COTs in Manhattan will be assigned the remaining positions by inverse seniority.
Time in Title is not required to apply.

New Time in Title will not be required in the new location.
NO REFUSAL/NO RETREAT rules apply to these special postings.
If you apply for a Special Posting and do not withdraw prior to 5:00 p.m. December 10, 2013 you may not refuse.