The Union (CWA) and Company (CenturyLink) met, August 30, 2018, in Jacksonville, AR.
The Union and Company continued to discuss their respective proposals and traded counterproposals.
As many of you know, we started bargaining with YP in November 2016 until the expiration of the current contract on December 9, 2016. The Company proposed a “Go to Market” compensation plan
Your CWA Frontier Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce that we have reached a Tentative Agreement with Frontier regarding the four contracts: CBA 48(Core), CBA 548(Buried Service Wire), CBA 113(Supply Chain) and CBA (55), VZED out of the Austin local. A contract explanation call is being set up in the near future. You will receive the call in number shortly when the details are finalized. Below are some of the highlights from negotiations:
After many late night hours of a long and hard fought weekend the Union and company committees are back at the table and moving in the right direction.
After weeks of negotiations with no movement, due to previous company proposals being in your committee’s opinion, “completely retrogressive,” the table is finally moving.
Your Committee applaud your efforts! We are not the only ones who hear you. Your priorities have been laid out and the message has been heard loud and clear.
Your Bargaining Committee has heard you, and we are keeping your priorities front and center in everything we are doing. Your Mobilization efforts are not going unnoticed.
We are now 15 days away from expiration and the Company is showing no sign of wanting to treat Texas better than a second class citizen! They ignore the fact that even though Melanie Williams (V.P. over Texas) stated we are profitable here they continue to want concessions from us while other areas have been given extensions and simple renewals.
Your Committee and the company met in joint session today to discuss in detail proposals handed across the table relating to Supply. The company is still working to answer RFI’s your Committee previously handed to the company.
Your Committee spent the day reviewing MOA’s and previous proposals. The committees did not meet in joint session today as the company filled another outstanding RFI that took time to review.
The Union and the company met this morning. Your Committee addressed the company’s opening statement and the inconsistencies in it and their methods of bargaining, as well as rejecting most of their retrogressive proposals. We continued to express what was critical to the membership and will hold on those proposals.
As we enter into the fourth week of bargaining, your Committee reconvened and we spent the day carefully assessing our strategy, thoroughly studying and discussing the events of the past weeks.