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AT&T Mobility Workers in Puerto Rico Join CWA

Another 186 AT&T Mobility network workers in Puerto Rico now are members of CWA Local 3010, joining CWA through majority sign-up.
The former Centennial Wireless Network Department employees work in six different locations across the island.

Local 3010 President Rafael Castro-Torres credited Local 3010 organizer Javier Sepulveda and the internal organizing committee for building strong support for the union, as well as support from District 3.
"The campaign got underway in April 2010 and our training and strategic planning paid off, with the committee signing up more than half of the network workers in just about a month," Castro-Torres said.

The internal committee included Jorge Roldan, Wilfredo Guivas, Angel Cabrera, Francisco Madera, David Guadalupe, Botcheller Seda, and Demetrio Luciano.
Local 3010 also is continuing to build majority support among AT&T Mobility's 414 retail store workers and 175 call center workers, Castro-Torres said.

The proposed merger between cable TV giant Comcast and NBC-Universal (NBCU) would lead to job cuts, reduce competition in the cable industry and restrict consumer access to online video content, a senior leader of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) told lawmakers.

On top of all that, Comcast has a long record of violating workers’ rights, CWA Vice President James Weitkamp told a field hearing of the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month. After its last big merger, with AT&T Broadband in 2002, Comcast immediately set about crushing AT&T’s unions, he said. Comcast also pays its workers about a third less in wages and benefits than unionized telecom companies.

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Don’t fall prey to the Company’s attempt to take away GOOD Union jobs and replace you with contractors.

The Company and the Union are currently negotiating ISP Enhancements.

The Company is holding the negotiations HOSTAGE by DEMANDING that they can replace any job of any person or persons that take ISP with a contractor.

They also want language that we can’t grieve or arbitrate.

CWA will NOT sell YOU out on this issue, so just say NO to this obvious effort to destroy the VERIZON Bargaining Unit.

More details to come….President, Kenny Williams