https://www.nlrb.gov/case/21-CA-349786 Looks like this was filed in CA by D9 yesterday. Anybody know what this is about?

Just to let every wire Tech In Baton Rouge know we will be crossing Monday 9/9/2024. 30+ wire techs are Tired of the paw paw core techs intimidating us when we have the controlling vote . See you at Sherwood Monday ready to work!

At the end of January there were 149.9k employees. Does anybody have thae updated employee count?

600 additional new manager deployments per week going forward. Contractors are also ramping up with plans to aggressively expand contractor deployments over the next several weeks. This will be the new normal for a while. Good luck to all that are... — read more 

I singed up for the credit monitoring and three weeks ago received notification that my SSN was found on the dark-web. Just wonderful! Placed fraud alert. Now someone in Taiwan just tried to use my credit card. Just wonderful! Now I wonder how often... — read more 

Get your 6-mo severance package while you can. From good source, changing to 1-mo by end of 1st qtr ‘25. Not sure if this is another “force people to leave now” rumor we-pon but didn’t sound that way.

Do we still get back pay?

Reported in USA Today Verizon announced Thursday it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Frontier Communications in an all-cash transaction valued at $20 billion. According to Verizon, the acquisition will 'significantly expand' the... — read more 

Well I hope we can get a team to fight like this for mobility contract when it comes up in District 3 for damn sure! Paying dues for something but haven’t seen any sparks fly before for us!

The guy that asked the 1st question last night is right. Union called a ULP strike and said the company isn't willing to bargain. Now the company is bargaining (even if it is slowly) so what's it going to take to call off the strike? In the past... — read more 

AT&T stands to benefit from the union workers' strike. For third quarter numbers, free cash flow will grow, which Wall Street is likely to embrace. In the meantime, business has been sustained by contingent workers, managers, and astute union... — read more 

Who does all the talking on the town hall call? This dude isn’t helping at all with the name-calling. It honestly had a feel like he just wants to sow hate. if this is the best the CWA has, we’re in trouble.

"Approximately 2300 Contingency Workers have been officially deployed to their Contingency Assignment." This is according to the CP portal. It used to be 1700.

Heard it yesterday from several people. It may as well not be true. It’s just that I heard it from unrelated sources. Anyone know more?

Posted the whole comparison of what the company offered versus what they want. Then gave the cost differences. Of course that makes it look like there's a huge difference. How about comparing it to REAL numbers, like maybe this year's actual... — read more 

How can we (craft) get the bargaining team replaced? They're clearly over their heads, and offered only excuses. They don't have the negotiating skills to compete with ATT, so we need someone new. Their egos are hurt, and it shows. They've taken some... — read more 

So, what did we all learn this evening on this wonderfully unnecessary phone call? Other than questions that were mostly answered with BS, the reports told us the rest....

After listening to tonight’s call and seeing the company’s latest “final offer”, one this is for certain, this is about to go for a long haul. The question now is do you have the pay to afford it? And if you’re a non-exempt manager or an employee... — read more 

Top that

and it is glorious to sit and watch.

Yikes. Don’t any HR folks know how to do a spreadsheet? This deal is not worth the paper printed on. Unfair labor practices.

Strike won’t end any time soon.

Brothers and sisters . Why is the CWA just now listening to our concerns and answering our questions. We look like fools on this picket line and not getting updates daily to keep our drive alive. If you can’t see this is damage control wake up. — read more 

The current Chief Network Officer of Frontier would join Verizon if the deal could close. If anyone in C&E remembers her or had worked under her, that was probably the last calm before the storm.

You can access it from your personal devices. Banner at top of page.

Any chance the strike gets called off while bargaining continues?

Large number of folks just got their deployment notice. The company is settling in for a long protracted negotiation. Good luck to all!

"Hmm", said Stankey "If we had even less people, we won't need as much VMWare!", and so it continues until there were no more. https://arstechnica.com/?p=2047618

Any rumors about next week? One thing you can’t accuse AT&T of is that it's boring.

Brothers & Sisters, There will be a town hall call tonight, September 5 at 8 PM ET - 10 PM ET. All members who registered for last week's town hall will receive a call shortly before 8 PM ET. Members who did not register for the previous call or do... — read more 

Lots of deals being announced. See this company is in 18 states. While Kinetic continues to grow, we currently provide residential service in 18 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska... — read more 

Seems like a stupid question, but locally nobody is 100% sure. Will those of us on strike get paid for labor day?

Workers at Blue Bird in Ga successfully negotiated a contract, Volkswagen in Tenn voted in UAW, Norfolk Southern reached a deal with a whopping 13 unions, Southwest ratified a contract with 33% over 4 years, a 5 year contract was reached with... — read more 

9/6/2024 What will the results be!?!

Why couldn’t we know this was on the table? Can the CWA be sued for lost wages?

I am going to go ahead and say it. CWA seems to be treating this contract more of a political agenda than actually caring about the employees it is covering. How long can you hold out not working while CWA treats this as a political statement? No... — read more 

What shall happen now?

Time for the union to stand it’s ground or give in as predicted.

I have it on anonymous sources that Att is to announce that due to their failed negotiations with Disney they would be offering PLAY DAY at all work centers for the little tykes. The mindset is we have all these personnel just sitting around we have... — read more 

Are there any real negotiations going down?