Updated Information

1. The $50.00 Contract Anniversary Bonus due Oct 16, 2011 will be paid in the Dec22nd pay check

2. Tennessee IBEW 1087 Voted their contract down 60 -2

3. The Spinco locals with Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina and North Carolina voted their contract down

4. California IBEW 1245 Voted their contract down

5. Januarys union meetings will be an informational meeting for all union members on procedures, contract and steward information.

Union Meetings

This Week we Have Two(2) Union Meetings

Tuesday Dec 6th -  6:00pm Exec Comm Mtg Sherburne

Tuesday Dec 6th -  7;00pm  Sherburne Union Mtg

Thursday Dec 8th - 12:00pm Meet New Hires in Jtown

Thursday Dec 8th - 6:00pm - Exec Comm Mtg Jtown

Thursday Dec 8th - 7:00pm Jtown Union Mtg

I will discuss the topics that were discussed at the bargaining table in Tennessee IBEW 1087.  I was invited to sit at the table with them on Thursday (12/1) and Friday (12/2).

If there is an item that you would like to discuss and be posted here please write it in the comment section so all the members can see what will be discussed.

Thanks

Clarkstown South Eliminates Clarkstown North

http://www.msgvarsity.com/hudson-valley/chester-academy/clarkstown-south-eliminates-north-1.771362#

Tired of our concerns and questions being ignored

To whom it May concern,

How long will it take for us to have our meeting with Cecilia !!  We have been asking for a very long time with no response. Where is the concept that we are conversationilsts, here to provide excellent customer service.  The only thing we are getting are NO calls, NO support to make this company excel over our cable companies and our pay staying at base pay with NO chance to achieve higher. We asked to speak to Cecilia whether it be in Johnstown or Stamford.  It is now over a month and we have heard not one peep.

Retail Centers across the country look at our PFP and let that be your guide.

Brothers and Sisters lets sing it loud and clear that we are united and will not allow our thoughts and ideas to fall on deaf ears anymore.

Update

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Over the last two days we held a Labor Management meeting in Sherburne, visited our brothers in Keeseville and concluded our trip last night in Adams. 

Our brothers and sisters across the state have raised many questions and concerns.  The two common concerns that have  been raised are the lack of training and the under staffed departments. We will be speaking to the company about these two major items.

In regards to the Retail Stores we have another call on Monday August 29th and then will present to the company our list of questions. 


We need to hear your concerns and questions, please use this page to write your concerns and thoughts.  Let your voice be heard.  Stay focused and united, we need to pull together in order for all of us to survive.

Thank

Fraternally yours,

Gil

Scare Tactic

Verizon to strikers: Stop picketing, or lose benefits

Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 6:45 PM     Updated: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 9:12 PM

By Leslie Kwoh/The Star-Ledger The Star-Ledger

 

Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger

 

About 45,000 Verizon union workers could lose their benefits Aug. 31 if they don't agree to a new deal, the company said today.

Thousands of Verizon union workers could lose their benefits on Aug. 31 if both sides cannot agree on a new contract, the company said today.

Verizon said it sent out letters to its 45,000 picketing workers reminding them about a contract provision, approved three years ago, stating that medical and other benefits would be suspended at the end of the month in the case of a strike.

"It’s not a surprise to them," said company spokesman Lee Gierczynski. "If the striking employees are not serving our customers, our investors should not be expected to pay their benefits."
Union representatives responded by accusing the company of employing "scare tactics."
"The point was to scare workers, of course," said Candice Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Communications Workers of America. "The best for everybody is to just get serious about negotiations and move forward."

The two sides have been locked in a standoff since Aug. 7, when negotiations for a new three-year contract broke down over provisions for health care and pensions. Verizon has filed court injunctions against the picketers in four states, including New Jersey, accusing them of harassment and obstruction at its facilities. The CWA, meanwhile, has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board.

The strike ends more than a decade of peaceful labor relations between the telecommunications giant and its two unions, the CWA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which together comprise one-fifth of the company's national workforce.

A Charelston Gazette Article

August 12, 2011

 

Union assails Frontier CEO's $8.6M pay package

Execs make out big while workers ignored, CWA leadership says

By Eric Eyre

 

The Charleston Gazette

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. --

Frontier Communications CEO Maggie Wilderotter's total compensation jumped from $4.8 million to $8.6 million last year, and the increase is drawing criticism from union workers who are seeking pay raises in West Virginia.  The Communications Workers of America said Friday that Frontier is rewarding its top executives -- to the tune of $2 million in bonuses -- but snubbing rank-and-file employees.

The union also took issue with recent statements from Wilderotter and Frontier West Virginia operations chief Dana Waldo that the union's contract demands were "rich and unrealistic."

"The priority for Frontier's top executives is to cut middle-class jobs and enrich themselves," said Elaine Harris, a Communications Workers spokeswoman in West Virginia. "If things are so good up there [for executives], then what about us?"  Waldo responded that the union's attack on Wilderotter's compensation package is nothing more than a "red herring" designed to "distract attention from the real issue.

"We want to reach an agreement that reflects the reality we face in a very competitive environment, a contract that best serves the interests of our customers, company and our employees," Waldo said Friday.

Stamford, Conn.-based Frontier has 2,300 employees in West Virginia.

The Communications Workers and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are negotiating with Frontier on two new contracts that would cover workers in Bluefield and more than a dozen communities in central West Virginia.

Those employees -- referred to as "legacy" workers -- worked for Frontier before the company purchased Verizon's landline business in West Virginia last year. Former Verizon employees who joined Frontier after the July 2010 sale earn significantly more -- about $6 an hour -- than Frontier's "legacy" workers. The former Verizon employees work under a more lucrative contract -- one that Frontier inherited from Verizon -- that doesn't expire until 2013.  The union wants Frontier to raise the "legacy" workers' salaries so their pay matches former Verizon workers' wages. "We've got people working side by side, getting paid different amounts," Harris said. "All we want is parity."  Harris said Frontier could have reduced top executives' bonuses by $1.5 million and used the savings to "achieve parity for every single one of its employees" covered by the contracts now being negotiated.

"But in its infinite wisdom, the compensation committee of the Frontier board simply chose to line the pockets of the company's highest-paid employees," Harris said.

Last year, Wilderotter's compensation included stock awards worth $5.6 million, $1.2 million in incentive pay and a $750,000 bonus, according to a March filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Frontier also paid $39,843 in legal expenses that Wilderotter ran up while negotiating her employment contract.

Among other top executives:

Frontier Chief Financial Officer Donald Shassian's total compensation increased from $1.8 million in 2009 to $2.7 million last year.

Chief Operating Officer Daniel McCarthy's compensation increased from $1.2 million to $2.2 million.

Human resources executive Cecelia McKenney's pay package jumped from $952,434 to $1.6 million.

Commercial sales Vice President Peter Hayes compensation increased from $1.02 million to $1.3 million.
In July 2010, Frontier purchased Verizon's landlines in West Virginia and 13 other states as part of an $8.6 billion deal.
Frontier tripled in size with the sale.
Waldo said Frontier's board awarded Wilderotter a "market-based" compensation package.
"We want an agreement with the CWA that's also market-based and appropriate," Waldo said.
Reach Eric Eyre at http://www.wvgazette.com/News/contact/revprler+jitnmrggr+pbz+return=/News/201108122650?page=2&build=cache or 304-348-4869.

Protest, vigil held at Verizon CEO's West Nyack home

A coffin carried by pallbearers clad in red T-shirts led a march Friday as 500 supporters of the 45,000 striking union members employed by Verizon marched to the home of the company's chairman and CEO.

Verizon Update !! Support our Brothers & Sisters in The IBEW and CWA

A Letter from CWA to the Rockland County Central Trades Unions on an update of their negotiations.  keep our brothers and sisters in mind.  verizon is stating that they want to reduce things because of industry standards not that they can not afford.  We are at   the table in 11 months                        

 

Communications Workers of America

Local 1107

3 E. Evergreen Road

New City, N.Y 10956

Robert E. Milone

Secretary/Treasurer

Legislative and Political Coordinator

Verizon at the Bargaining Table:

Tens of Billions in Profits, a Quarter-Billion in Executive Compensation, Intent on Destroying Middle-Class Jobs

DATE: August 5, 2011

President RCCLC Gil Heim

8 Taylor Lane

New City, N.Y 10956

Dear Gil,

We are writing to update you on the very serious situation currently taking place in our collective bargaining with Verizon Communications.

CWA’s contract with Verizon—covering 16,000 workers in New York, approximately 800 here in Rockland (and a total of 45,000 CWA and IBEW members from Massachusetts to Virginia)—expires on August 6^th.

The short story is this: 

Despite over $19 billion in profits and $258 million in compensation to its top five executives over the last four years, Verizon seems hell-bent on destroying the middle class jobs CWA has fought so hard to create over the last 50 years of collective bargaining.

In the first several days of negotiations, Verizon has put on the table demands to:

·        Eliminate all job security provisions of the contract.

·        Vastly increase contracting out of work to low-wage contractors, including outsourcing jobs overseas.

·        Freeze pensions for current workers and eliminate them for future employees.

·        Replace the current high-quality health care plan with a high-deductible plan requiring thousands of dollars in premium cost-sharing.

·        Eliminate accident disability benefits, and slash sickness disability benefits.

·        Eliminate long-standing subsidies for employee child care.

·        Slash paid holidays to seven.

·        Reduce annual paid sick days to no more than 5, with none at all for employees with fewer than 2 years of seniority.

·        Even eliminate the half-day off that was historically granted on Christmas Eve.

There is little question that the telecommunications industry is rapidly evolving.  New technologies like FiOS, cable telephony, and wireless 4G are surging.  Many young consumers are switching to wireless only.  But all these technologies continue to depend on a robust land line network maintained and serviced by skilled workers.  And millions of consumers remain dependent on landlines, no matter how eager the company may be to abandon them

Despite the rapid changes in the industry, and despite the worst economic environment in 75 years, Verizon has managed to remain enormously profitable.  Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg alone pocketed $80.8 million in the last four years.  Even more outrageous, Verizon actually managed to squeeze a $1.3 billion tax rebate out of the U.S. government despite its billions in profits.  And in New York alone, Verizon has cut its workforce in half in the last decade —almost entirely through attrition and buyouts—a reduction of 15,000 workers.

At a time like this, 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 it possible.  And they should not be “redlining” America by refusing to build out FiOS in our upstate cities like Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, Albany and Binghamton.

Instead, Verizon should be working with its unions to provide high quality service to the public and building out FiOS as broadly as possible.  It should be ensuring that the unionized workforce—with good family-supporting jobs—grows with them.  It should not be slashing living standards and contracting out work to low-wage contractors or to overseas companies.

If Verizon refuses to modify its outrageous demands at the bargaining table, there could well be a costly and economically damaging strike beginning on August 6^th.

We ask you to write Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg and President Lowell McAdam today and urge them not to destroy middle-class jobs across the Northeast.  Urge them to moderate their bargaining demands and work cooperatively with their unions.

Thank you in advance for your support and we will keep you posted as the situation develops.

In Solidarity,

R. E Milone

Robert E. Milone

Legislative and Political Coordinator

CWA Local 1107

Chris Shelton                                                                Bob Master

Vice President, CWA District One                                Legislative and Political Director

                                                                                    CWA District One

Updated Info

Saturday June 11 - We had 11 brothers and sisters complete the Basic
Electricity Class at the Harriman Training Center.


Congratulations to :

Rose Albert, Irene Benjamin, Darren Emmons,
Rafael Gonzalez, Lori Iacono,
Virginia Landin, Pricilla Page, Joe Rivenburg,
Lou Sciucco, Donnie Semple and Sandra Wright



Friday July 1 - Sam Fratto became the Business Manager of IBEW 363

Monday july 11 - We met with the 911 group to discuss the possibility
of temporary jobs. The company wanted to have them
extend past the contractual 6 months. The union gave
the company 3 options, which the company refused all 3.


Tues July 19 - We had an arbitration case regarding the awarded
position in the Business Sales and Service group.



Sam has sent a letter and a pin to all our brothers and sisters asking them to wear the pin with pride and to attend your local union meeting.  Sam will be attending the August meetings in each unit.  If you have not received your pin please contact me. Thanks  Gil

June 9th Unit 12 Election Results

UNIT 12 ELECTION RESULTS:


Chairman -    Shelley Brockert


Vice Chair -  Kathy Kalesa


Secretary -   Janet Tyler


Exec Comm -  Kathy Howell


Exec Comm -  Ed Ruby


Exec Comm -  Phyliss Santangelo


Exec Comm -  Troy Thomas

Unit 43 Results

UNIT 43 ELECTION RESULTS:


Chairman -    Jeff  Wathen

Vice Chair -  Cindy Gumble

Secretary -   Cheryl Bartle

Exec Comm -  Pete Dinicola

Exec Comm -  Kelly Carnachan

Exec Comm -  Chad Morris

Exec Comm -  Lori Reynolds

JOHNSTOWN ELECTION JUNE 9th 7am to 7pm

JOHNSTOWN UNIT ELECTION

The Techs in the following areas can either vote at Johnstown Holiday Inn  or by fax.

Keeseville

Boonville

Lowville

Pulsaki

Adams

NOC

WAH

To vote by fax you can print a copy of the ballot from the web site.  http://www.363ibew.info/.

Once you print the ballot, you must put your name on the ballot and fax it back to 845-215-0062

Faxed Ballots must be received by 5:00pm on Thursday June 9, 2011

Faxed Ballots can be sent as early as 7:00am Monday June 6, 2011

Norwich Vote Tuesday June 7 7am to 7pm

NORWICH UNIT ELECTION

The Techs in the following areas can either vote in Norwich, Sherburne or by fax.

WALTON

CHENANGO BRIDGE

NEWARK VALLEY

SIDNEY

WALTON

To vote by fax you can print a copy of the ballot from the web site.  http://www.363ibew.info/.

Once you print the ballot, you must put your name on the ballot and fax it back to 845-215-0062

Faxed Ballots must be received by 5:00pm on Tuesday June 7, 2011

Faxed Ballots can be sent as early as 7:00am Monday June 6, 2011

Norwich Election June 7th

ELECTION    1    Week Away  Tuesday June 7 

 7am - 7pm  @  Sherb. Am. Legion & Howard Johnsons

 UNIT 43 -  Candidates  For Unit Office

Chairman ** -         Jeff Wathen

Vice Chair ** -       Select One (1)   

    

                                   Deb Bonanno

                                   Cindy Gumble

                                    CJ Lowe


Recorder -                   Cheryl Bartle


Executive Committee -  Select Four (4)

                                   Pete Dinicola
                                   Kelly Caranchan
                                   Jean Faucett
                                   Terry Greco
                                   Chad Morris
                                   Carolyn Powell
                                   Michelle Reilly
                                   Lori Reynolds

Elections will be held Tuesday June 7th  7:00am to 7:00pm
Sherburne American Legion & Howard Johnsons Norwich

** When elected as Chairman and Vice Chair they are also elected as the Unit's Bargaining Committee .

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Memorial Day

Dear Brother and Sisters,

This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day – to many of us that means a long weekend, barbecues, and maybe a quick vacation. But all too often we forget the true meaning of the holiday. We found a great article from another IBEW Locals web, and we are posting it below. Please read it, and join us in giving thanks to those soldiers that gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country. And on Monday while we’re all enjoying our day off, join us in pausing briefly to give thanks.

Fraternally yours,

IBEW Business Agents and Officers



Memorial Day is the time for Americans to reconnect with their history and core values by honoring those who gave their lives for the ideals we cherish.

More than a million American service members died in the wars and conflicts this nation fought since the first
colonial soldiers took up arms in 1775 to fight for independence. Each person who died during those conflicts was a
loved one cherished by family and friends. Each was a loss to the community and the nation.

The observance of this day was born of compassion and empathy in 1863. As the Civil War raged, grieving mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, and other loved ones were cleaning confederate soldiers’ graves in Columbus, Mississippi, placing flowers on them. They noticed nearby the union soldiers’ graves, dusty, overgrown with weeds. Grieving for their own fallen soldiers, the confederate women understood that the dead union soldiers buried nearby were the cherished loved ones of families and communities far away. They cleared the tangled brush and mud from those graves as well as their own soldiers’ graves and laid flowers on them too.

Soon the tradition of a “Decoration Day” for the graves of fallen soldiers spread. On May 5,1866, when the Civil War was over, Henry Welles of Waterloo, New York, closed his drugstore and suggested that all other shops in town also close up for a day to honor all soldiers killed in the Civil War, union and confederate alike. It was a gesture of healing and reconciliation in a land ripped apart by conflict.

Sixteen years later, in 1882, the nation observed its first official Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember and honor the sacrifice of those who died in all our nation’s wars.

For decades, Memorial Day was a day in our nation when stores closed and communities gathered together for a day of parades and other celebrations with a patriotic theme. Memorial Day meant ceremonies at cemeteries around the country, speeches honoring those who gave their lives, the laying of wreaths, the playing of Taps.

In some places, these ceremonies continue. Sadly, many Americans have lost this connection with their history. All too many Americans today view military service as an abstraction, as images seen on television and in movies. For a growing percentage of the American people, Memorial Day has come to mean simply a three-day weekend or a major shopping day. Families might still gather for picnics, but for many of them, the patriotic core – the spirit of remembrance – is absent.

Many Americans have no experience with or connection to the military. There are many reasons for the disconnect. We have fewer and fewer veterans to share their stories. And many of our older veterans – especially those from World War II and Korea – tend to be reticent. They often don’t talk about their service.

Today, we have the smallest Army we’ve had in 50 years. Unlike past periods in our history, the majority of members of Congress today have not served in the military. Many Americans do not have any relatives or even neighbors who serve now or have ever served in the military. In fact, many Americans today have never even met a soldier.

In May 1996, Carmella LaSpada met a group of school children on the Mall in Washington DC. She asked them what Memorial Day meant. They all paused and then said, “That’s the day the pool opens.”

Ms. LaSpada decided she wanted to show these children and others like them why they are free and who paid for their freedom. She started the “Moment of Remembrance” campaign. Her goal is to put the “Memorial” back into Memorial Day.

She would like to see all Americans observe one minute of silence at exactly 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, as Taps plays, to honor those who sacrificed their lives for us.

That first year, 1,000 shopping malls in this country did what she asked on Memorial Day. They announced the moment of silence at 3 p.m.; so did several baseball stadiums, including those of the Yankees and Orioles; so did transportation centers, such as Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Amtrak, and bus lines. Several amusement parks announced the moment of silence.

Each year since 1996, the “No Greater Love Foundation” has worked to expand the campaign further. The goal is for every American to hear an announcement on Memorial Day at 3 p.m., calling for a moment of silence, one minute out of the year to remember those who made the greatest possible sacrifice.

I encourage you to join in the effort to spread the word about the Memorial Day moment of silence, to make it observed in more places.

BASIC ELECTRICITY COURSE

Saturday June 11, 2011

9:00am – 4:30pm

IBEW 363  Harriman Training Center

67 Commerce Drive South

Harriman, NY 10926

Cost – Free to IBEW 363 Members Employed by Frontier

Upon successfully completing this course you will receive the Basic Electricity certification needed to bid on a Com Tech(I/R) position and Testboard.

To register for this course please email Gil stating that you will attend the course.

REMINDER  SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS DUE JUNE 10
VISIT WEB SITE FOR APPLICATION

UNIT 12 Candidates

UNIT 12 - Candidates Nominated For Unit Office

 Chairman ** - Shelley Brockert

Vice Chair ** - Select One (1)

                          Eric Dillenback

                          Nancy Harden

                          Kathy Kalesa

Recorder - Janet Tyler


Executive Committee - Select Four (4)

                            Kathy Howell

                           Ed Ruby

                          Phyliss Santangelo

                           Troy Thomas


Elections will be held Thursday  June 9, 2011
 7:00am to 7:00pm  @  Johnstown Holiday Inn


** When elected as Chairman and Vice Chair they are also elected as the Unit's Bargaining Committee .


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Happy Mothers DayTo All Our Moms. !!!!!

Happy Mother's Day ! Thank You for everything you do for us !!

Unit 43 Candidates

UNIT 43 -  Candidates Nominated For Unit Office

Chairman ** -         Jeff Wathen

Vice Chair ** -       Select One (1)   

    

                                   Deb Bonanno

                                   Cindy Gumble

                                    CJ Lowe


Recorder -                   Cheryl Bartle


Executive Committee -  Select Four (4)

                                   Pete Dinicola
                                   Kelly Caranchan
                                   Jean Faucett
                                   Terry Greco
                                   Chad Morris
                                   Carolyn Powell
                                   Michelle Reilly
                                   Lori Reynolds

Elections will be held Tuesday June 7th  7:00am to 7:00pm
Sherburne American Legion & Howard Johnsons Norwich

** When elected as Chairman and Vice Chair they are also elected as the Unit's Bargaining Committee .

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SPINCO BARGAINING UPDATE !!! SUPPORT YOUR BROTHERS & SISTERS

IBEW Locals  289, 986, 1106 and 1431 Bargaining Update

Posted by 5150 on April 28, 2011

Frontier Communications and IBEW MIFA #1 locals have finished bargaining the additional 14 days as per the MOA. The Company has refused to back down on all its concessionary proposals. To date there is still not one proposal by the Company that is an improvement for the membership. Frontier refers to these contracts, as the gold plated, unrealistic, over compensated Collective Bargaining agreements of the past. Yet the company awarded their executives lucrative bonuses and continues to pay its shareholders the highest yielding dividend of any S&P 500 company.

We apologize for the delay in updating the site. The date of the next meeting with Frontier was just agreed to and we wanted to include it in this update.  We are currently scheduled to meet June 6-11 with the company and a Federal Mediator per the MOA. The main topics of bargaining are the Pension, Medical and Dental benefits, Short term disability, 401K and Combining job titles with the work. There are many MOA’s in the 5 Collective Bargaining agreements that expire and need to be renewed.  Please make sure you attend your union meetings for more detailed information.  We need every member to where there union shirt on every Thursday and at every Company Meeting. United we bargain Divided we beg!

Michael J. Brousseau
SCT-7 Chairman
Business Manager
IBEW Local 1106

IBEW Locals 289, 986, 1106 and 1431 Still negotiating with Frontier

IBEW, Frontier Negotiations Continue

April 13, 2011

After months of talks, the latest round of negotiations between Frontier Communications and IBEW workers in four states came to a close April 1 – with no tentative agreements on any proposals put forth by the two parties.

Talks now move into a new phase of negotiations after the March 26 expiration of the current contract, which covers nearly 1,000 technicians, administrative workers and other employees. IBEW and Frontier representatives will meet again at the table from April 11-21. Members will remain covered under the previous agreement as discussions continue. Union negotiators are fending off company attacks on members of Durham, N.C., Local 289; Norwalk, Ohio, Local 986; Mason, Mich., Local 1106; and Sumter, S.C., 1431, who worked for Verizon before the company sold its rural landline services in 13 states to Frontier last year. Frontier’s current proposals include concessions and takebacks regarding wages, benefits, changes in overtime pay, schedule requests and other issues. Said Local 1106 Business Manager Mike Brousseau, who is lead negotiator and chairman of System Council T-7, which has about 3,500 former Verizon workers nationwide:The company believes that all of their concessionary proposals to diminish the level of benefits and working conditions are reasonable. Our bargaining committee has vehemently expressed its disgust with Frontier’s attempt to gut our contracts.  If Frontier and the IBEW do not reach an agreement by late April, discussions will move to federal mediation. Brousseau said:

We need every member to support their bargaining committee throughout these contract negotiations.

The four locals help comprise the union’s System Council T-7.

Negotiators are also in talks to improve wages and benefits for members who are covered under the buried service wire agreement – a separate national contract for employees who lay and maintain wire underground.

Frontier purchased Verizon’s landlines in July 2010. Frontier has proven to be a successful company, avoiding the fate of FairPoint Communications, Inc., which acquired a chunk of Verizon’s landlines in 2008 before declaring bankruptcy the following year.

UPDATED INFO

On Friday April 11, 2011 we received notice from the Arbitrator that we WON Penny Ferguson's Arbitration.  Penny will start back in Directory on Tuesday April 19th.  Penny was terminated in June 2010, Penny must be made whole with pay and benefits.

Arbitration Date for LD Job is set for July 19th.

 UPDATE ON SAVE TEAM MEETING THURSDAY APRIL 14th.

The company and union agreed to the following terms of the save team project.


1.  By May 12th the company will inform us if they plan on posting new Save Team permanent jobs or continue to utilize save team as a project.


2.  If the company chooses to continue as a project, then four new individuals will fill the positions of the members who have went over six months ago.


3.  If posting as a new job classification the union will be looking for pay to be on Schedule B.


4.  All time worked on project can not be used towards experience.


5.  Company will post new WAH jobs by the end of July.

A Call To All NY Work at Home Reps

Ok NY WAH

Message From Kathy Kalesa:

 We have a Labor Management meeting Thursday May 12, 2011

 I need to have all your issues and concerns.

 I would like to have them ASAP so I can put it all together, you can contact me via home email or at the union meeting , Thursday April 14th. Johnstown

Please do not sent via company email.

 UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL

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Rally in Newburgh

Hudson Valley, NY

Top Executives " In The Money"

It's Nice to see while Frontier is bargaining contracts with Locals and stating they need to save money. That times are tough !!

But its OK to give our top executives 70 to 90% Raises !!!!

 

 

Frontier top execs' compensation jumps

By WILL ASTOR - 3/28/2011 2:57:51 PM

Frontier Communications Corp. chairman and CEO Maggie Wilderotter received a 77 percent bump up in pay last year.

Wilderotter’s total 2010 compensation of $8.6 million was up from $4.8 million in 2009, a proxy statement filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows.

Augmenting $974,167 in Wilderotter’s base pay were a $750,000 bonus, stock awards worth $5.6 million and $1.2 million in incentive plan compensation. Frontier picked up the tab for $39,843 in legal expenses incurred in the negotiation of a restatement of Wilderotter’s employment contract, the filing shows.

Next most highly paid after Wilderotter were:

· • Chief Financial Officer Donald Shassian, whose 2010 compensation of $2.7 million was up 52 percent from a $1.8 million pay package in 2009;

· • Chief Operating Officer Daniel McCarthy, whose 2010 compensation of $2.2 million was up 90 percent from $1. 2 million in 2009;

· • Cecelia McKenney, executive vice president for human resources and call center operations, whose compensation of $1.6 million was up 72 percent from $952,434 in 2009;  and

· • Peter Hayes, executive vice president commercial sales, whose $1.3 million 2010 pay package reflected a 23 percent bump up from $1.02 million in 2009.           

(c) 2011 Rochester Business Journal. To obtain permission to reprint this article, call 585-546-8303 or e-mail service@rbj.net.

Frontier Update

On March 14, 2011 thirteen(13) bilingual reps started working in Middletown.
IBEW Local 503 ratified their contract last week.

     1. 3 year contract
     2. Medical  21%   21%  23%
     3. GWI   2%   2.25%   2,25%
     4. Uniform Cleaning Allowance  $7.00 per week

North Carolina - still in negotiationsgoing very slow.  Company wants them to get to 20% in medical from zero.

Union Rally

IBEW Local 363 Members Attend Rally in the Hudson Valley at Teamsters Union Hall

 

Ohio senator: GOP tries to take down unions, and so did Hitler and Stalin

By Jordan Fabian - 03/03/11 02:00 PM ET

 

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) took to the Senate floor Thursday to defend labor unions, saying that dictators like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin opposed them.
Brown said that unions have wrongly come under attack from Republicans and conservatives, who are pitting workers against one another in states like his, where governments are taking action on anti-union legislation. Though he said he was not making a direct comparison, Brown claimed that "some of the worst governments we've ever had" have opposed labor unions.

"As a nation, I look back in history and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the the first thing they did? They went after the trade unions," he said. "Hitler didn't want unions, Stalin didn't want unions. [Former Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak didn't want independent unions."

Rhetoric over anti-union bills in Wisconsin and Ohio has reached a fever pitch, and politicians in Washington have adopted the cause to make political points.
Republican-backed bills in those states would limit public employees' ability to collectively bargain with the state. Supporters say that removing collective bargaining would make it easier to cut costs for states that are broke.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said this week that abolishing collective bargaining rights would be akin to reinstituting slavery. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said that collective bargaining has no place in representative government.
After Brown invoked Hitler and Stalin, he immediately said that he was not comparing Wisconsin to the Nazi and Soviet regimes.
"I'm not comparing what's happening to the workers in Wisconsin to Hitler and Stalin," he explained, "but I am saying that history is teaching us that unions are a very positive force in society that creates a middle class and protects our freedom."
Brown did repeatedly attack Republicans for going after unions.
"We've seen a real play on fear. They're trying to pit the private sector workers against the public-sector workers," he said. "That is the most base Karl Rove-type politics to turn working-class people one against another."

West Virginia Frontier Employees "Frustrated"

February 16, 2011
Frontier workers 'frustrated' by expiring contracts
By Eric Eyre

The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Frontier Communications' union workers are frustrated about expiring labor agreements and slow contract negotiations, the Communications Workers of America said Wednesday.  Frontier's board of directors is meeting this week in Charleston, the site of the company's southeast regional headquarters.

"We felt it was important to let the board know workers around the country from both the new and old Frontier have serious concerns about their jobs," said union spokeswoman Elaine Harris. "We've watched as two labor agreements with Frontier have expired. Talks for those new contracts have dragged on but there's still no agreement in sight."

Contracts between Frontier and union workers in North Carolina and Rochester, N.Y., recently expired.

"It all comes down to simply maintaining quality jobs and benefits," said John Puloski, a CWA representative in Rochester. 

During the next five months, six more employee contracts with Frontier -- including West Virginia ones in Bluefield and St. Marys -- are set to expire.

Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter and fellow board members are expected to conclude their meetings in Charleston today.

CWA members have started a campaign called "We're fighting for our future." Union workers also distributed leaflets about stalled contract negotiations at Frontier's regional headquarters at 1500 MacCorkle Ave. S.E. this week.


On July 1, Frontier bought Verizon's telephone landline business in West Virginia and 13 other states as part of an $8.6 billion deal. Frontier picked up nearly 600,000 landlines from Verizon in West Virginia.

Stamford, Conn.-based Frontier has about 2,300 workers in West Virginia, with plans to hire 80 more this year.  

Happy Valentines Day !

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We would like to wish all a Happy Valentines Day !!

When you get a chance, if you have not seen this video take time out to watch the Techs and Conversational Expert segments

http://www.myfitv.com/faces_of_frontier/nationwide/539579

Email Sent Today

From: Gil Heim [mailto:gjh363@optonline.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 3:06 PM
To: Decuyke, Catherine
Cc: Slocum, Kathleen; Robbins, Joyce; Schaaff, Tom; Brockert, Shelley; Kalesa, Kathy; Harden, Nancy
Subject: Noble issues

NOBLE ISSUES STILL HAPPENING

Was talking to customer 9286593214 and lost my Noble “again”  3rd time today.  G001 ext 2464

Was with customer 6514335316 at 9:13 and lost Noble and then hung up my system.  G001 ext 2464

Just lost my caller middle of conversation   AGAIN 

Catherine,

We are still dealing with issues on Noble,  when will I hear from the company that the members will not go down in pay next quarter due to all the issues.

I have still not heard back from Cecilia. With a date that she is available for a meeting.

Gil

A MEMO SENT FROM COMPANY YESTERDAY

From: PST Team

Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 8:20 PM

To

Subject: RE: noble Go38

We have had network issues all day across the Enterprise. This greatly impacts Noble on your desktop. Please either turn your PC off and restart it or restart your remote session – whichever is applicable. This should reset your network connection and hopefully improve your issues.

Dave Velleu

Technical Analyst

Projects and Supporting Technologies (PST)

Why was this sent out at 8:20pm and not earlier to all reps?