CWA Local 1118
4 Wembley Court
Albany, New York 12205
Phone: 518-862-0095
Upcoming Events:
Labor Parade, 9/9
Vigil at the capitol, 9/18
Membership Meetings:
Albany, 9/14, PACC @ 6pm
Glens Falls, 9/22, VFW @ 6pm
Plattsburgh, 9/28, VFW @6pm
Links:
Verizon Strike: Media Coverage
Bargaining Updates
AFL-CIO
Communications Workers of America
CWA District One
Verizon-About You (Instructions)
Verizon Benefits
NY/NE Dependent Care
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. The Union received answers to their questions on one of the company’s proposals. Unfortunately, the charts and presentations that they brought to the table to answers those questions were incorrect and the company needed to recess in order to correct those charts. The Union had received this proposal one month ago and had asked many questions to better understand the proposal. One month later, they returned with incorrect information. The company has told the Union that they will have this information tomorrow. The Union has to wonder when the company will begin to negotiate. Marc Reed, Executive Vice President in Verizon wrote to our members on Tuesday and he stated, We are committed to productive discussions with union leaders regarding these issues. Someone needs to tell Marc Reed that they have not engaged in any productive discussions and there is only 9 days left to the expiration of our contract. When do they plan to begin to have these productive discussions? [....]
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Bargaining Report #20
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees met with the company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. With just 2 days before contract expiration, the company has yet to withdraw any of their retrogressive proposals. The discussions today centered on health care with the company supplying some of the information the union has requested. Further discussions are scheduled for tomorrow morning. [....]
Posted - August 5th, 2011
Bargaining Report #19
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees met today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. With just 3 days before contract expiration, your bargaining committee spent the day reviewing data received from the company and also evaluating our proposals. We have rejected all but one of the Company’s proposals and we told them yesterday that they need to address our issues. We are still waiting for the Company to respond to our proposals. [....]
Posted - August 4th, 2011
Bargaining Report #18
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. With just 4 days before contract expiration, your bargaining committee is still waiting for Verizon to get serious at the bargaining table. The Company spends more time sending messages to our members giving them “bargaining facts” than they spend at the table. The Company’s “ bargaining facts” e-mailed today to our members [....]
Posted - August 3rd, 2011
Bargaining Report #17
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. With just 5 days before contract expiration, Verizon has yet to get serious at the bargaining table. While the message from Saturday’s rally, where more than 20,000 CWA/IBEW members, retirees and their families stood together to let Verizon know their demands are totally unacceptable, was carried by the media…. Verizon still doesn’t get it. [....]
Posted - August 2nd, 2011
Bargaining Report #16
| Posted - August 1st, 2011 |
Bargaining Report #15
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Teams met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye , NY . The Union presented additional proposals to the Company. The company asked questions about the Union’s initial set of proposals but made no movement on addressing any of the Union’s concerns. Verizon has not shown that they are serious about reaching an agreement with the Union or about having serious discussions around the issues to get to an agreement. [....]
| Posted - July 28th, 2011 |
Bargaining Report #14
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Teams met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye , NY . Discussions centered on Absence. It was apparent to your bargaining Committee that Verizon did not come to the table to have a serious discussion. Management was strongly reminded that the contract expires in a little more than a week and that the time for them to get serious is NOW!!! [....]
Posted - July 27th, 2011
Bargaining Report #13
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 Regional and Local Bargaining Teams met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. The Regional Committee presented their Health Care proposal, together with a detailed plan to rein in the spiraling cost of benefits, while at the same time, improving the quality of care received. Discussions are scheduled to resume tomorrow morning.
| Posted - July 26th, 2011 |
Bargaining Report #12
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 Regional and Local Bargaining Teams met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye , NY . The Regional Committee made a comprehensive presentation on Contracting which included examples of all types of work-- from all bargaining units. The Unions demanded that this work, being performed by several thousand contractors in the U.S. and off shore, be returned to our members. They emphasized to Verizon that the return of contracted jobs is a major issue for the Unions.[....]
| Posted - July 25th, 2011 |
Bargaining Report #11
CWA District 1, IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Local Bargaining Committees resumed negotiations with Verizon at the Ryetown Hilton in Rye, NY today. Local Bargaining tables continued to meet throughout the day and into this evening but unfortunately, the Regional Committee did not meet today. The Committee waited all day for information from the company in order to meet but never received that information. Negotiations are scheduled to resume tomorrow morning. [....]
| Posted - July 22nd, 2011 |
Bargaining Report #10
CWA District 1, IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Local and Regional Bargaining Committees resumed negotiations with Verizon at the Ryetown Hilton in Rye, NY today. The Unions received some answers to questions raised at previous sessions but are waiting additional responses. The Company has not yet responded to any of the Unions bargaining proposals. Local Bargaining tables continued to meet throughout the day and into this evening. Discussions at all tables will resume tomorrow. [....]
| Posted - July 21st, 2011 |
Bargaining Report #9
CWA District 1, IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Local and Regional Bargaining Committees resumed negotiations with Verizon at the Ryetown Hilton in Rye, NY today. The committees presented additional union proposals. The committees also pressed the company for answers on questions from previous session. The company will be providing some of those answers tomorrow. The Company has not responded to any of our proposals at the Regional table. Discussions will resume tomorrow. [....]
| Posted - July 20th, 2011 |
Bargaining Report #8
Posted - July 19th, 2011
Bargaining Report #7
CWA District 1 / IBEW Local 2213 Regional and Local Bargaining Teams as well as the IBEW New England Committees met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. The Regional Committee continued discussion on health care and we are still waiting for information and data that we have requested from the Company. [....]
Posted - July 1st, 2011
Bargaining Report #6
CWA District 1 / IBEW Local 2213 Regional and Local Bargaining Teams as well as the IBEW New England Committees met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY to continue discussions on health care. The Regional Committee has requested additional data and information from the Company and is scheduled to resume negotiations at 9 AM tomorrow. [....]
Posted - June 30th, 2011
Bargaining Report #5
CWA District 1 / IBEW Local 2213 Regional and Local Bargaining Teams as well as the IBEW New England Committees met with the Company today at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. CWA Districts 2, & 13 and the IBEW Locals 827 and 1944 Regional Bargaining Teams met with the Company today In Philadelphia. Your Union Bargaining teams collectively have decades of bargaining experience. In all of our experience we have never seen such an aggressive agenda as the package of proposals the Company brought to the table today. Verizon has made it clear they want to take away almost every protection we have as Union workers.
| Posted - June 29th, 2011 |
Bargaining Report #4
CWA District 1 / IBEW Local 2213 Regional and Local Bargaining Teams as well as the IBEW New England Committees met with the Company today. At the Regional table we discussed the benefit proposal which was passed last week. Some of the retrogressive proposals are:
The Company has proposed to terminate the major health benefit plans that CWA has negotiated over decades.
The company is demanding premium contributions for both the medical plan and the dental plan. [....] We have analyzed the Company’s lengthy opening statement from yesterday’s meeting which basically followed the theme of your wages are too high, your health benefits cost too much, you use your health benefits too frequently, you are out sick too much and your work rules are too costly. [....]
Posted - June 28th, 2011
Bargaining Report #3
CWA District 1 / IBEW Local 2213 Regional and Local Bargaining Teams as well as the IBEW New England Committees met with the Company today. At the Regional table the Company gave us a proposal on Health Benefits. Verizon management had made it clear in their opening remarks on Wednesday that their goal in this round of bargaining was to erode our standard of living and the many hard fought for gains we have made through our more than sixty years of contract negotiations. [....]
Posted - June 27th, 2011
Bargaining Report - #2
Regional and Local Bargaining Teams met with the Company today. At the Regional table the Company gave a presentation about health care which lasted all day.
| Posted - June 24th, 2011 |
Bargaining Report - #1
CWA Districts 1, 2, and 13 as well as IBEW New York (NY), New England (NE) and New Jersey (NJ) opened negotiations with Verizon today. CWA District 1 and IBEW NY and NE are negotiating for new contracts at the Rye Town Hilton in Westchester County. CWA Districts 2, 13 as well as IBEW NJ are negotiating for new contracts in Philadelphia. Chris Shelton, Vice President District1 gave an opening statement to the Company at the regional Bargaining table in NY. [....]
| Posted - June 22nd, 2011 |
Chris Shelton's Opening Statement
The Unions are here today to start the process of negotiating a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Our Unions have negotiated contracts with Verizon, Bell Atlantic and their predecessors since before any of us started working here. During the last 50 years, we worked together to solve problems, to address one another’s needs at the bargaining table, to deliver quality service to customers and build a strong company. [.....]
Verizon's Opening Statement
Posted - June 22nd, 2011
