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June 18, 2010

** Special Thanks to all the Members and Friends who came to support our Kickoff Party!

50% of the Profits were donated to the Egan-Wood Family!

(Pictures are on the "In The Spotlight" page)

CWA UNITY COMMITTEE

Proudly Presents:

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Party Like A Rock Star Fundraiser!


Date:     Friday, June 18, 2010
Time:     7pm-1am (DJ & Cash Bar)
Location:  Lawrence Elk’s Ballroom
                652 Andover St, Lawrence, MA
Theme:   "Party Like a Rock Star!"

Admission: $10.00 per person

Entertainment by DJ Sean O'Toole:

http://themusicexplosiondjseano.webs.com/

Silent Auction & Prize Raffle Donations by:

CWA Local 1400 Members, Stewards, Friends

Daddy's Junky Music, Legal Sea Food, 99 Restaraunt, Fireside Restaraunt, Amoskeag Airport Service and MORE!


(2) $50 door prizes
50/50 Raffle
Dress like your favorite Rock Star!
Prize for best dressed!
Plus many other exciting activities!

 rockstar

Partial Proceeds to benefit the Egan-Wood Family

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June 4, 2010

IBEW Local 2222 membership joins CWA Local 1400 and adopts a "Tear Down the Wall" Resolution to expand organizing rights at Verizon

06/04/2010 - 1:00pm

Boston -- Hundreds of telecom workers voted unanimously at IBEW Local 2222's regular membership meeting on Wednesday, June 2 to support a grassroots campaign to make "tearing down the artificial wall separating the non-union Verizon wireless from the mostly union wireline side of the business" a top priority in negotiations for their next contract in 2011.

The resolution was advanced on the floor of the membership meeting by two leaders of the local's new "Futures Committee," which was established to develop new leadership at Local 2222 and within the larger labor movement.

"This is about all of our future as employees of Verizon," Pat Atwell told members. "Verizon is rapidly moving into the high growth, high profit areas of the telecommunications industry. But as they do so, top management is intent on leaving us – the union workers who built this company – behind.

"We can't let that happen," he continued. "Not if we want a future in this company for us, our children and our communities." Atwell, a Verizon splice service technician, works out of the company's Woburn garage.

Chris Morgan, another Verizon technician from South Boston, seconded the resolution. "Five years ago union membership at Verizon was about 70 percent of the company. Today we are less than 30 percent. Nothing is more important than reaching out to Verizon Wireless employees regarding the benefits of collective bargaining. We need to educate them and build unity in our company to achieve a strong voice for the good jobs that our communities need."

A similar resolution was also adopted by CWA Local 1400 at its May executive board meeting in Portsmouth, NH.

Local union leaders hope that the "Tear Down the Wall" resolution will spread to other telecom locals in both the IBEW and the CWA. 

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May 21, 2010

A MARCH FOR JUSTICE @ SHAW’S

    MONDAY, MAY 24TH @ NOON
         ON SHATTUCK ROAD

(PHOTOS FROM 5-24-10 ARE ON THE 'IN THE SPOTLIGHT!' PAGE)

 

 
300 FAMILIES 60 MILES 5 DAYS
MARCH WITH THE SHAW'S WAREHOUSE WORKERS

Shaw's, and their parent company Supervalu, have forced the workers to go on strike since March 7 over unfair demands for workers to bear ALL the burden of increasing health care costs.

On April 1, Shaw's unilaterally cut off the workers' health care.
Workers and supporters are marching to urge Shaw's to come to the bargaining table with a proposal that keeps good jobs in the community, instead of a regressive proposal that lowers workers' living standards.

WHAT: 300 families, 5-day, 60-mile march for justice at Shaw's
WHEN: Kick-off event on Sunday, May 23 at 12 p.m.
WHERE: Shaw's Perishable Distribution Center
100 Danton Drive, Methuen, MA 01844
WHO: Striking Shaw's warehouse workers, their families and supporters

STAND WITH SHAW'S WORKERS TO SAVE GOOD JOBS IN THE COMMUNITY!

See below for details on march route.
Contact Megan Pierce at (781) 864-6285 or mpierce@ufcw.org to find out how you can join the march or how you can help the marchers along the way.

Join the striking Shaw's Methuen warehouse workers, their families and supporters, as they begin a 5day, 60miles march from the Methuen warehouse to the State House in Boston.

300 FAMILIES 60 MILES 5 DAYS

DAY 1:Sunday May 23rd-Methuen Warehouse to Lawrence Common
Start/Rally: 12 p.m. Shaw's Distribution Center (100 Danton Drive, Methuen)
Rally/Stop: 3 p.m. Lawrence Heritage Park (1 Jackson St, Lawrence)

DAY 2:Monday May 24-Lawrence Common to Reading on Route 28
Start: 8:00 a.m. at Lawrence Heritage Park (1 Jackson St, Lawrence)
Rally: 11:30 a.m. at the Verizon Call Center (20 Shattuck Road, Andover)
Sleep/Stop: 6:30 p.m. at Old South United Methodist Church (6 Salem St, Reading)

DAY 3:Tuesday May 25-Reading to Medford
Start: 8:00 a.m. at Old South United Methodist Church (6 Salem St, Reading)
Rally: 12:00 p.m. at Shaw's (99 Main St, Stoneham)
Rally: 1:00 p.m. at Stop & Shop (259 Main St, Stoneham)
Sleep/Stop: 6:30 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church (147 High St., Medford)

DAY 4:Wednesday, May 26th-Medford to Cambridge
Start: 8:00 a.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church (147 High St., Medford)
Rally: 9:30 a.m. at Shaw's (61 Locust, St, Medford)
Rally: 1:30 p.m. at Shaw's (14 McGrath Hwy, Somerville)
Rally: 6:30 p.m. at Centro Presente! (17 Inner Belt Road, Somerville)
Sleep/Stop: Temple B'nai B'rith (201 Central Street, Somerville)

DAY 5:Thursday March 27th-March into Boston!

Start: 7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. Community Breakfast at Temple B'nai Brith (201 Central St. Somerville) co-sponsored by the New England Jewish Labor Committee & Temple B'nai Brith Social Action Committee, RSVP at: BostonJLC@aol.com. For questions call 617 227-0888
Start: 9:00 a.m. at Centro Presente! (17 Inner Belt Road, Somerville)
Rally: 12 p.m. at Star Market/Central Square (20 Sidney Street, Cambridge)
March: 1 p.m. to State House (24 Beacon Street, Boston)
Rally: 3:00 p.m. at State House
March/Rally: 4:00 p.m. at Shaw's Prudential (53 Huntington Avenue, Boston)

 

New England Jewish Labor Committee
18 Tremont Street, Suite 320
Boston, Massachusetts 02108

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May 7, 2010

Verizon exec, union square off at meeting - Landline sale to Frontier upsets workers
 
By Toby Manthey
 
LITTLE ROCK — New York-based Verizon Communications Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg on Thursday faced union workers upset about his company’s pending $8.6 billion sale of rural landline assets to Frontier Communications.
 
The exchange was at the Peabody Little Rock hotel at Verizon’s annual shareholders meeting, which about 200 people attended. Verizon said last month that it varies the gathering’s location each year to make it convenient for shareholders around the nation.
 
Several dozen members of the Communications Workers of America union - at the meeting and on the nearby sidewalk in front of the Statehouse Convention Center - spoke out against Verizon layoffs nationwide, as well as those they said will come from the sale of rural phone lines to Frontier.
 
Verizon, which has about 220,000 employees, laid off 7,413 in the fourth quarter, The Associated Press reported in late January. The company said at the beginning of the year that it expects about 13,000 positions to be cut on the wireline side of the company this year, about the same as in 2009, the AP said.
 
No mention was made during the meeting of the cuts that Verizon Wireless, which is co-owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone, has made in Arkansas. About 600 people have lost jobs in the state since Verizon bought Little Rock-based Alltel Corp. in January 2009. (Verizon has said layoffs at the Little Rock headquarters will be less than originally thought.)
 
Mark Franken of Austin, Texas, one of the protesters outside the meeting, said Frontier’s deal to buy the rural assets in 14 states is bad for Verizon workers and affected communities.
 
“Anytime these companies merge, they cut jobs,” Franken said.
 
The protesters - who Franken said were from Arkansas, Texas and the East Coast - also were on hand Wednesday, protesting other issues at Little Rock-based Windstream Corp.’s annual meeting, also in downtown Little Rock.
 
Union representatives said they also opposed the sale of rural landline assets because Frontier will take on a large amount of debt and, they said, be unable to invest in their broadband network, which is necessary for the economic growth of communities.
 
Companies that bought lines from Verizon in the past have gone into bankruptcy, they said, such as FairPoint Communications, which bought Verizon lines in New England, as well as Hawaiian Telecom, which bought Verizon lines in Hawaii.
 
Seidenberg said at the meeting that he wouldn’t address every point on the Frontier deal made by the workers.
 
“You guys don’t like it; we like it,” he said. “We already know that.”
 
But he said he thinks affected communities will see better broadband service through the sale, which was announced a year ago and is to close in mid-2010.
 
Frontier is focused on rural landline service, while Verizon concentrates on urban wireless service, he said.
 
Seidenberg said Verizon has no plans currently to sell any more of the landlines.
 
Arkansas is not one of the states affected by the Frontier sale.
 
All proposals introduced by Verizon shareholders were voted down by majorities. Among the measures were a proposal for a policy to prevent discrimination based on sexual identity; a shareholder right to call special meetings, and a proposal that would tie the vesting or paying out of stock awards with company performance.
 
Verizon’s board of directors had opposed the proposals.
 
Several of the proposals achieved more than 30 percent support by shareholders in preliminary results. One, a proposal to require shareholder approval for agreements or policies that would pay benefits for executives after death, garnered more than 40 percent.
 
The Firefighters’ Pension System of Kansas City, which sponsored the proposal, said executives could pay for such benefits themselves, such as by buying life insurance.
 
Also at the meeting, Verizon’s 13 directors were elected; Ernst & Young was approved as the company’s independent auditor; and shareholders approved Verizon’s overall pay-for-performance policies.
 
This article was published today at 3:36 a.m.
Business, Pages 29 on 05/07/2010

Copyright © 2010, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc
 
 
 
Rand Wilson
Center for Strategic Research, AFL-CIO

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April 29, 2010

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LN Conference 2010What a weekend! 1,200 amazing troublemakers descended on Detroit.
There was so much energy and knowledge on display. You blew us away.

Share your experiences
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  • What could you have lived without?

  • How are you going to use what you learned? What plans are you making with people you met at Labor Notes?

Photos, videos, tweets: lots of action online
LN Conference 2010Click over to labornotes.org to see an amazing set of conference photos from Jim West and Jon Flanders. Check out our Twitter feed or join our Facebook page to see what everyone had to say.

We've got videos of the locked-out California miners receiving their Troublemaker Award, as well as the actions to support the fired Hyatt 100 housekeepers in Boston and the Restaurant Opportunities Center's picket against a wage-thieving restaurant just a mile down the road from the conference.

Let's take it further
We're eager to spread the conference spirit and deepen the Labor Notes network through Troublemaker Schools, one-day mini-conferences we're holding throughout the country in between the big national events. Didn't have a chance to make it to the planning session for these schools during the Saturday lunch? Let us know if you want one in your town, especially if your local could host.

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April 24, 2010

CWA/Verizon - California -Bargaining Bulletin: Tentative Agreement Reached 4-24-10

BARGAINING BULLETIN #54

The Union and the Company bargaining committees have reached a tentative agreement today. Brief highlights of the Core agreement are:

*Wage increases of 2.75% for each of the 3 years.

*Sales Incentive Compensation Plan remains voluntary! 7A wage schedule increased.

*New MOA on Contractors, requiring the Company to report the contracting of “bargaining unit work” on a monthly basis.

*Verizon Business and Video Hub work moved into the Core agreement.

*No employee medical contributions.

*New Medical PPO plan effective Jan 2011 for all employees.

Brief highlights of Regional Wire Service agreement are:

*Additional holidays

*Wage increases of 2.75% for each of the 3 years

More details to follow!

Many “Thanks” to all of the members who actively participated in the bargaining process through your support and mobilization.

In Solidarity,

Your Bargaining Committee

Lisa Shafer, David Goodwin, Mike Frost, Ellen West, Ed Venegas, Gregg Gibson

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April 18, 2010

Thank you to all who attended the Bi-Annual CWA Local 1400 Membership Meeting.

We had 70 Members in attendance !

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April 29, 2010

This is a link to a YouTube video of our organizing efforts in Maine for T-Mobile last week.   Tim Dubnau is our CWA District 1 Organizer (recording the video).  Local 1400 Organizer Sheila McGillicuddy can be heard in the background!  Great job everyone!

(No one was arrested...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEBgvCMCPYc

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April 6, 2010

 
Don Trementozzi, President, CWA Local 1400, has been appointed by Larry Cohen, President of CWA, to serve on the 2010 Appeals Committee at the CWA 72nd Annual Convention.  He is one of four Presidents that will serve on this Committee.
*The Appeals Committee is charged with the responsibility of hearing and acting upon any matter that may be referred to the Committee prior to or during the Convention and will make a report to the Convention.*
Congratulations, Don!

CWA Takes on Verizon Over FMLA Abuses

CWA has filed a lawsuit charging Verizon Communications with denying workers the rights and protections of the Family and Medical Leave Act. The class action lawsuit covers Verizon workers in Districts 1, 2 and 13. (Local 1400 is District 1)
CWA and individual workers have laid out extensive complaints against Verizon. “Verizon has created a number of arbitrary administrative procedures that it requires workers to follow if they want to be certified for FMLA, but these procedures are not a part of the FMLA law. They shouldn’t be used to deny workers their rightful FMLA benefits, but that’s exactly what Verizon is doing,” said CWA General Counsel Mary O’Melveny.
FMLA provides workers at companies with 50 or more employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for the birth or adoption of a child; care of a spouse, parent or a child under 18 for a serious health condition; care of a child over 18 with mental or physical disabilities, and an employee’s own illness.
Verizon’s policies are a real Catch-22:
If a worker followed verbal instructions from the company’s absence reporting center, and those instructions were wrong, though the worker didn’t know it, the claim is denied.

If a worker couldn’t file the full report on time, because her doctor was on vacation or unavailable, the claim is denied. If another physician in the same office completed the report, but didn’t spell out the relationship between the two medical providers, the claim is denied.

If information was missing from the claim, for example, the doctor’s office didn’t complete an item, the claim is denied.

If a supervisor makes an error in reporting a workers’ claim, it’s denied.
At Verizon, as far as FMLA is concerned, once a claim is denied twice, a worker loses her FMLA rights.


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Local 1400 Verizon Members,
Verizon has announced another surplus in our Local and many other locals in New York and New England. CWA National and Local Leaders don't agree that we have a surplus. Our work is being moved around the country and vendors are doing our work in violation of our contract. Verizon has laid off CWA members in NY and IBEW members in NE, in violation of our contracts. Make no mistake Verizon is declaring war on us and we will be fighting back! CWA National Union Dist-1 is coordinating an all out attack. We have filed National Labor Relation Board charges and law suits and grievances. We need volunteers to help leaflet Verizon Wireless customers and other planned actions. Please call the local union office 603-436-4388 or email at clocal1400@aol.com to volunteer. Thank you for your support.

Don Trementozzi
CWA Local 1400
President

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A Day in the Life of a Telephone Man Click the video to play it

Requiem For A Heavyweight, Telephone Labor Division

Twenty years ago this December, the large Dorchester, Massachusetts, clan of Jerry "Judgie" Leary was, like many other telephone worker families in the Northeast, not exactly flush with cash for Christmas presents.

Jerry and 60,000 other members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Communications Workers (CWA) had just spent four grueling, impoverishing months on the picket line battling NYNEX, the regional telecom giant now known as Verizon.

Memories of that strike include first-time-ever visits to food banks, the loss of job-based medical benefits because NYNEX cut them off, and the dismissal, suspension, or arrest of hundreds of union activists in New York and New England. In Westchester County, New York, a CWA picket captain with several young children was hit by a car driven by a scab and died of brain injuries; in New Hampshire, an IBEW striker was killed in an industrial accident while trying to do an unfamiliar factory job to feed his family...
Read the full article here

 

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Hell No!  Zero Givebacks!

Yesterday and today over 700 members showed up for a joint IBEW / CWA meeting in Bangor and Portland Maine. The message to FairPoint members is we did not cause this problem. The overwhelming 2.5 billion dollar debt and organizational chaos is the reason. The members response to the $30 million annual concessions is "Hell no! Tell them "0" givebacks.  We have given and continue to give them our blood, sweat and tears!"


The U.S. Senate is threatening to pass a health care reform plan that would
tax our health care benefi ts! This plan would force Verizon to cut benefi ts
and shift costs to workers and retirees to avoid this tax.
Average ANNUAL TAX on Verizon East Health Plans:
$5,500 for workers with families
$2,000 for single workers
$3,200 for early retirees with families
$ 500 for single early retirees
President Obama promised health care reform that lets us keep our health care
benefi ts. CWA supports that plan, and the Senate should too.
There’s a better way. All employers should cover their workers and the wealthy
should pay their fair share too.
Call your Senators today! 1-888-580-0792
Tell them: Taxing health benefits is not health care reform


Verizon is trying to save money by not sending the books describing the benefit plans that they are offering this year.  EVERY MEMBER should be calling to request these books due to the plan changes!!!  1-877-489-2367 Verizon Benefit Center

We filed a Board Charge on the changes the Company made to the HMOs and the Company’s refusing to bargain the new plan (National EPO NYNE). We will continue to pursue these legal options. The company has decided to move forward and there will be many HMO plans that will be terminated. Those members must decide on a new plan during this enrollment period.

If your members want to review their benefit information, such as the Health Plan Comparisons Charts, they can review them and print them at www.verizon.com/benefits or you can contact the Verizon Benefits Center at 1-877-4VzBens (1-877-489-2367). Representatives are available between 8 AM and 6 PM.

You can request a copy of your 2010 available options by calling the Verizon Benefits Center from October 19 - November 16th

Your members do not need to do anything unless they:

  • Want to make changes for 2010

  • Have a change to covered dependent

  • Need to certify who is a full time student

  • Want to enroll in a Health Care or Dependent Care Spending Account

  • Need to update their spousal surcharge eligibility.

As described on page 7 of the enrollment brochure, members who have not made a benefits change within the last 12 months will be able to change benefit coverage between November 1st and December 1st  for the new coverage to be effective January 1 2010. 

Again, if your current plan is available in 2010 and you want to keep your current plan, you do not need to do anything. If your current plan has been terminated, you will be defaulted to the EPO unless you enroll in one of the other options available.

If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to call


Unions: Fairpoint requests are unfair. Concessions topic of talks

When FairPoint purchased Verizon's landline network in northern New England last year, opposition from the two unions - Communications Workers of America Local 1400 and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2320 - played a major role in earning FairPoint about $350 million in savings on the deal.

"To come back to the people that really helped you get a much sweeter deal and say, 'We need concessions now,' I think that's unfair," said Glenn Brackett, business manager of the IBEW chapter.
Click here for the full article


FairPoint workers cool to bid for cuts

Union leaders are unhappy with a FairPoint Communications Inc. request for concessions as the company struggles to avoid bankruptcy.

"Nickel and diming the unions is not a way to get the company back on track," said Don Trementozzi, president of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1400.
Click here for the full article


DoL Review Complete: Team Trementozzi Vindicated

Dear Members,

For those of you that are unaware, in September of 2008 there
was an anonymous call to the Department of Labor making
accusations of financial misuse or otherwise of the local's
funds. Since September 2008 the local's records from 2003-2008
have been in the possession and under extensive investigation by
the Department of Labor.

We are pleased to announce that the local's records were
returned to us Friday, October 2, 2009. For the years in question (2003,
2004, and 2005) the Department of Labor has exonerated the
previous Trementozzi administration of any wrongdoing. The
agents for the Department of Labor advised that even though the
records were in their possession, they did not do an
investigation on years 2006, 2007 or 2008 since the September
2008 caller's accusations were about years 2003-2005.

Boston union workers rally over layoffs

Hundreds of angry union workers marched through downtown Boston yesterday to protest recent layoffs at the Hyatt Hotel and planned cutbacks at other firms including Verizon.

Saying they won’t tolerate a “jobless recovery,” union members rallied first on Boston Common near the State House, then marched to the Verizon building in Post Office Square - and then they ducked backed into the Downtown Crossing area to the Hyatt, which recently fired dozens of non-union housekeepers in favor of lower-paid subcontracted employees.
Click here for the full article.



CWA Local 1400 Members -- informational picketing at Andover CSSC "Honor Our Contract"
 


Vermont AT&T wireless phone store workers unite in CWA Local 1400

 

After a short campaign, eighty-one AT&T Mobility phone store workers in eleven Vermont stores have formed a new union with CWA Local 1400.
Click here for the full article.

Click here for a copy of the certification from the American Arbitration Association.

 


Verizon Attempting to Unilaterally change HMO plans to EPO 

I had previously reported that the company had intended to eliminate most of the HMO’s and they were going to add a new EPO plan. We notified the company that we do not believe that they have a right to eliminate these plans and add a new plan without the union’s agreement. The company has responded that they have a different view and would not need to obtain the Union’s agreement or permission. We are now pursuing our legal options.

We have continued to meet thru the AHRC and the company has taken
some of our suggestions and concerns and adjusted their initial plans. We now have nine (9) HMO’s that will be offered in 2010. They are:

808 Capital District Physicians Health

825 Blue Alliance NY

843 Univera Healthcare NY

822 HIP Health Plan of NY
814 Empire BCBS HMO of NY –( now calling it Anthem EPO NY/NE )
847 Aetna INC HMO
838 HealthNet of Connecticut
827 Independent Health of Buffalo
817 United Health Care Passport/Harvard Pilgrim

We maintain that they must bargain with us over the new EPO plan which they list as an HMO and the Company cannot eliminate HMOs without actively involving the Union in the process. We are pursuing our legal options but will continue to discuss with the company adding additional HMOs.

We will keep you informed.

 

Dennis G. Trainor
Assistant to the Vice President

 


CWA District One members show strong support for appointing temporary Senator from Massachusetts


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Over 50 members from five Massachusetts locals attend statehouse hearing

Boston -- CWA District One members showed strong union support for appointing a temporary interim Senator to fill Sen. Kennedy's seat at the Massachusetts legislature's Joint Committee on Election Laws hearing. 

"With the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy two weeks ago, Massachusetts has only one U.S. senator," said Don Trementozzi, President of CWA Local 1400.  "This has left Massachusetts working families with only partial representation during critical fights in the Senate on health care reform and the Employee Free Choice Act."  CWA Local 1400 members work at Verizon and AT&T.

"We could be just one vote short of the 60 votes we'll need in the Senate to get legislation passed this year," said Lynda Nordyke, President of CWA Local 1302.  "It is imperative that we have full representation as soon as possible."  CWA Local 1302 members work at Idearc.

The hearing at the Massachusetts State House on House Bill 656 packed Gardner Auditorium.  And no group had a larger -- or more visible -- turnout than CWA, whose members filled an entire section of the room with their colorful red t-shirts.  Other CWA local unions with members attending the hearing included Local 1300/AEEF, 1301 and 201.

House Bill 656 would not impact the special election scheduled for January 19, 2010, but it would allow Massachusetts to have full Senate representation in the interim period.

"Every day, U.S. Senators cast critical votes on issues essential to the people of Massachusetts," said Paul Bouchard, a CWA District One Representative and former Lucent Technologies employee.  "There are lots of important issues coming up.  All the other states have two senators for the next six months.  We should too."

Pictures from the hearing can be viewed here


 

Local 1400 Protesting Verizon's new Dress Code


Verizon Declares Impasse on Dress Code Negotiation

Hi All---long after close of business yesterday the Company sent an email indicating that they were declaring impasse in the Business and Workplace Attire negotiations.  Their plan is to impose the Workplace Attire policy immediately with communication with inside employees beginning today and enforcement of the guidelines beginning Monday, August 24, 2009.

On the Business Attire Policy the will establish accounts with the Company's vendor for the affected employees, but have not yet stated a time line for ordering the Verizon branded shirts.

CWA legal will file a board charge today over this implementation.  We do not believe that we are at impasse and Legal will make our position known in the board charge process. As more information becomes available it will be sent out. 

As always, if you have questions, please call.  Lisa    

Elisa Riordan, Area Director
CWA
80 Pine Street
New York, New York

 


You are invited to view CWA District 1's photo album:
2009 - CWA Convention

2009 - CWA Convention
Washington DC -
Jun 21, 2009
by CWA District 1

 

Thousands of CWA members descend upon Washington, DC in support of the Employee Free Choice Act & health care reform.

Click here for the full newsletter & pictures


US Vice President Joe Biden thanks the CWA for our support

Check out lots of other videos from
the convention in Washington, DC here

 

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