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LOCAL 3511
JACKSON, MS
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Member's Voice
To
District 3
Presidents, E-board officers, and Members
It appears the Company continues to have it their way!
What is the point of our leadership soliciting our input if it is
only going to fall on deaf ears! All the District Leaders agreed
that they would not settle on something
(a contract) that all the districts were not all comfortable with,
we were assured. Explain to me, what is being gained in this
tentative agreement? All I see is more concessions.
Look at what is happening!
Health Care premiums, that will cancel out any wage increases!
Nothing positive for retires?
No titles brought into Core Contract.
Like it was pointed out on more than one occasion, 2 tier
wages or working conditions are not going to bring our union
brothers and sisters any closer together. It started with NDA
operators, then Utilities Techs. Next was Prem. Techs, which
were voted down in District 3, soon after came Mobility folks
selling land lines for half the wages of our Sales Associates.
Now its leveraged pay titles, meaning all the new hires will be
leveraged. Think carefully. Why did the company only want to
allow the Premise tech title in the appendix of the contract,
instead of the core contract? The reason is obvious, because
they want to have the same work completed at half the cost,
and don't want our brothers and sisters to have the same
benefits and working conditions that we have fought for and
achieved in the past. Now the Company is giving away more
of responsibilities of our core members. In turn surplusing our
Service Technicians. Do you really think they will ever catch
up to the core employees, or will the core employees be gone
and no longer care. Which title is next? If this continues
everything we have will become extinct. The company will
continue with this practice as long as we are too weak or too
scared to challenge them.
With these concessions this time, can you imagine what we
will be willing to give up in 3 years?
Do you have members that are hoping to retire someday?
If we don't draw a line in the sand NOW, and stand strong for
the young members, can you really expect the new bee's to
concern themselves with a bunch of dinosaurs' retirement,
when the dinosaurs' did not look out for them!
Are we going to allow the company to continue to chip away at
the sculpture we have created over the last fifty years until all
we have left is a pile of pebbles?
We need to stand as one now more than ever.
NO MORE GIVE BACKS!
In Unity,
Don
Local 3122
Miami, Fl.
District 3
Presidents, E-board officers, and Members
It appears the Company continues to have it their way!
What is the point of our leadership soliciting our input if it is
only going to fall on deaf ears! All the District Leaders agreed
that they would not settle on something
(a contract) that all the districts were not all comfortable with,
we were assured. Explain to me, what is being gained in this
tentative agreement? All I see is more concessions.
Look at what is happening!
Health Care premiums, that will cancel out any wage increases!
Nothing positive for retires?
No titles brought into Core Contract.
Like it was pointed out on more than one occasion, 2 tier
wages or working conditions are not going to bring our union
brothers and sisters any closer together. It started with NDA
operators, then Utilities Techs. Next was Prem. Techs, which
were voted down in District 3, soon after came Mobility folks
selling land lines for half the wages of our Sales Associates.
Now its leveraged pay titles, meaning all the new hires will be
leveraged. Think carefully. Why did the company only want to
allow the Premise tech title in the appendix of the contract,
instead of the core contract? The reason is obvious, because
they want to have the same work completed at half the cost,
and don't want our brothers and sisters to have the same
benefits and working conditions that we have fought for and
achieved in the past. Now the Company is giving away more
of responsibilities of our core members. In turn surplusing our
Service Technicians. Do you really think they will ever catch
up to the core employees, or will the core employees be gone
and no longer care. Which title is next? If this continues
everything we have will become extinct. The company will
continue with this practice as long as we are too weak or too
scared to challenge them.
With these concessions this time, can you imagine what we
will be willing to give up in 3 years?
Do you have members that are hoping to retire someday?
If we don't draw a line in the sand NOW, and stand strong for
the young members, can you really expect the new bee's to
concern themselves with a bunch of dinosaurs' retirement,
when the dinosaurs' did not look out for them!
Are we going to allow the company to continue to chip away at
the sculpture we have created over the last fifty years until all
we have left is a pile of pebbles?
We need to stand as one now more than ever.
NO MORE GIVE BACKS!
In Unity,
Don
Local 3122
Miami, Fl.
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