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Regional Bargaining Report # 24
Friday, August 5, 2011
The IBEW New England and CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 Local Committees met with the company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. With just 1 day before contract expiration, the company has yet to withdraw any of their retrogressive proposals and actually added proposals from the local tables to the Regional table tonight. Further discussions are scheduled with the Regional Committee tomorrow morning.
The Company needs to get serious and remove these retrogressive demands immediately tomorrow morning and begin bargaining with your Union. Call your managers during the day and let them know you want the Company to come to the table and withdraw their retrogressive demands immediately.
Verizon seems hell-bent on destroying the middle class jobs CWA and IBEW have fought so hard to create over the last 50 years of collective bargaining.
It is time that Verizon invests in America and brings Good Jobs back into the bargaining unit. Corporations like Verizon should not be destroying middle class jobs. They should be helping to rebuild the American economy and sharing their success with the workforce that made that possible.
It’s time to fight back!
Turn up the Heat in your Work place
Now more than ever we need to mobilize!
Mobilize! – Mobilize! – Mobilize!
Fraternally,
Dave Keating
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