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April 20, 2007
Volume 07 NO 16
MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
6:30 p.m.
Local Office—5321 First Place, NE, Washington,
D.C.
(Walking Distance from Ft. Totten Metro Stop)
Sun drawing is worth $1,095.75
You must be present to win
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
"Coleman District Freeze"
Effective April 16, 2007 thru June 16, 2007, Verizon Partner
Solutions Field Operations-Potomac under Genia Coleman in D.C.,
Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland will not be releasing the
following titles for downgrade and lateral outward movement: Systems
Technician, Service Technician, Central Office Technician,
Engineering Assistant, Maintenance Administrator, Special Clerk,
Management Plan Clerk, General Clerk and Manager Clerk.
The Company’s decision to affect this freeze is based on workload
and force loss.
"RAMP Changes"
Verizon is modifying RAMP with an implementation date of October
2007. The Company believes that changes are beneficial to all by
giving increased consideration to desired skills of potential
candidates. In addition, systems enhancements will reduce the need
for manual entry of employee information.
Add your voices to ours! We did it in New York and New England.
Let’s
get a union and bargaining rights
Like 97,000 of our Verizon co-workers.
 Verizon Business gave us
big raises
and restored our standby-pay when it
discovered that we wanted a union.
AS TECHNICIANS AT VERIZON BUSINESS
we recently learned
the
impact
we can have by joining together. On March 4, a majority of us from
New York to Maine signed cards showing we want a union and
bargaining rights like 97,000 of our union co-workers at Verizon
(watch our cards being verified by members of Congress and other
public officials at
WWW.FREECHOICEATVERIZON.COM).
Two weeks later, more of us in New York City demonstrated that our
union support is over 60 percent and growing.
Management knew we were organizing together and tried to persuade
us that a union would not be beneficial for us. To "prove" it,
management gave us our first decent raise in three years (over 10
percent for some of us), restored standby-pay they’d taken away
earlier, and relaxed the dress code at some test centers.
Management is warning that our wages and benefits could go down
if we organize a
Union. But, if we’d be worse off by joining together, then why is
the company trying
so hard to persuade us not to organize a union? And why did they
raise our pay and
restore standby-pay after learning we wanted a union?
Honest answer:
They don’t
want us to have a voice on the job and contract bargaining rights
like 97,000 of
Verizon’s CWA and IBEW union workers. They want to continue to be
able to dictate
what we get — they don’t want to have to negotiate with us as
well.
 It’s
time all Verizon Business technicians joined together. Wherever you
work, unite with your co-workers just like us. Let management know
that we deserve respect, rights on the job, and good pay and
benefits like our union co-workers at Verizon. The company wants us
apart, yet we both do the same work. We’re one company
!
(Top photo) Here we are celebrating majority union support. (2nd
from top) Sen. John Kerry (MA) joined other public officials in
certifying
our majority support. (3rd from top) Field Tech John Lindner, on
duty in Afghanistan, sent us his support. (Bottom photo) Rep. Peter
Welsh (VT) supports our organizing campaign in a letter to Verizon
CEO Ivan Seidenberg .
LET’S TEAR DOWN THE WALL !
Communications Workers of America
- www.cwa-union.org/verizon
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- www.ibew.org
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