Regional Bargaining Report # 40
Friday, November 20, 2015
IBEW New England and CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 Regional Bargaining Committees met this week at the Rye Town Hilton in Westchester.
The committees met from Tuesday to Friday this week to attempt to ignite the bargaining process that has been stalled because of Verizon’s refusal to move off their position of shifting thousands of dollars in healthcare costs, eliminating job security, freezing pensions, eliminating Accident and Sickness Disability and more.
The Union and the Company exchanged a total of four comprehensive proposals during the week and Verizon still has almost all of their retrogressive demands on the table.
Your bargaining team is committed to continue bargaining until an agreement is reached that is fair to our members and shares in Verizon’s $1 Billion per month profits.
I would like to thank the members of this Local who have been giving their time towards mobilization. Whether it is at work or after hours the members of Local 2325 and the System Council T6 have stepped up their game. The Company has commented that they do not like all this outside activity. The actions of this membership are playing a part in the bargaining process. Keep up the great work and don’t let off. Put the pedal to the floor.
Members throughout the East Coast are engaged in this fight and we must continue to mobilize to send the message to the Company that they must get their retrogressive demands off of the table.
Bargaining is scheduled to resume next week in Rye, New York.
Call your local or talk to your steward and find out what you can do to help.
KEEP UP THE FIGHT!
Mobilize! Mobilize! Mobilize!
Fraternally,
Dave Keating
Business Manager
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