WHY IS VERIZON SPREADING RUMORS ABOUT AN UPDATED ISP PROPOSAL?
During 2010 Bargaining with VERIZON of California, your Bargaining Committee proposed an Enhanced ISP that would benefit the entire Bargaining Unit and VERIZON rejected it.
Let’s Check the Facts
VERIZON lost the arbitration on the subject of declaring an entire unit surplus, so it can replace employees with Contractors.
January 2010 CWA prevailed in an arbitration case involving the Building Services Technicians, (BST’s). Verizon declared the entire BST title surplus. Some of the employees believed VERIZON and were intimidated into taking the ISP offer. The very next day, VERIZON replaces and backfills these BST positions with Contractors. There was no surplus! Verizon was ordered to reinstate the BST’s.
What VERIZON doesn’t want you to know about its proposed ISP offer.
After you, the Membership, ratified the current Contract between CWA and Verizon on May 24, 2010, Verizon wants to now add a new clause to the ISP language that’s not found in any other bargaining unit throughout the Nation! Verizon proposed to give itself the right to surplus current employees and replace all with Contractors. The proposal states, VERIZON will have “exclusive right to determine and declare surplus as part of the offer for any reason, including contracting out work and the Union waives the right to challenge such surplus determinations and declarations in arbitration or in any other forum.”
In essence, VERIZON is offering a few employees a bribe, a buy-out, so it can stir up sympathy for its cause, to replace current employees with contract employees! Presently, VERIZON is refusing to remove this language, so your Union is standing with you, protecting the interest of 5,000 employees covered by the current Contract and REJECTS VERIZON’s offer as it stands.
Why did VERIZON start the Anti-Union rumors and get the July 9, 2010 internal email message to you? Verizon wants you to believe that CWA would reject a proposal favorable to the membership.
Does this make sense to you?!
VERIZON hasn’t even provided dates for this proposed surplus offer.
So why the July 9, 2010 email? Is this another bribe and scare tactic?
After 14 weeks of bargaining and strong support from you, the members, VERIZON wants to break your Union Solidarity. VERIZON‘s proposal is nothing more than circumventing the arbitrator’s binding ruling. Verizon does not want THE MOMENTUM DURING BARGAINING, FOURTEEN WEEKS OF UNION SUPPORT AND MOBILIZATON, TO CONTINUE. Don’t fall victim to VERIZON’s half truths,
Get the Facts
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Tell Verizon: Keep California Jobs in California
Tell Verizon: Keep California Jobs in California
Tell Verizon that it's a slap in the face.
Verizon makes a huge percentage of its profits from California consumers. But it continues to send our jobs out of state, and even out of the country. Verizon call center jobs are already in the Phillipines. Last month our bargaining team caught Verizon sending our jobs to Tijuana.
California consumers have made it possible for Verizon to keep its fat cat executives fat. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg's salary is $18.6 million, and the salary of the other five top executives totals $58.9 million. Verizon made $3.65 billion in profits last year.
The website is:
www.CaliforniaJobsNow.org
Tell your representative: Co-sponsor the Local Jobs for America Act today.
Millions of teachers, police and firefighters, the backbone of our communities, are facing pay and benefit cuts, furloughs and layoffs due to huge state and local government budget problems. As our economy slowly climbs out of the terrible recession, the last thing we should do is cut critical services and send more workers to the unemployment line.
The Local Jobs for America Act (H.R. 4812) would pump $100 billion into our communities to create or save 1 million jobs. Sponsored by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the bill would give America’s economy a shot in the arm and safeguard essential local services.
Tell your representative: Co-sponsor the Local Jobs for America Act today.
One hundred and five members of Congress already have signed on as co-sponsors and we need your help to build that list to 200 by the end of next week. We need to show Speaker Nancy Pelosi there is broad support in Congress for this important bill. We can’t afford any more job losses.
We need to create and save good local jobs and we need to do it now.
The Local Jobs for America Act will do just that. It will put money in the pockets of working families, spur demand in the economy and create additional private-sector jobs.
From saving teachers’ jobs and keeping class sizes manageable to keeping thousands of law enforcement officers on the beat, the Local Jobs for America Act will help ensure the services that make our communities livable and keep the unemployment rolls from growing.
Tell your representative to co-sponsor the Local Jobs for America Act today.
In solidarity,
Marc Laitin
AFL-CIO Online Mobilization Coordinator
