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Notes from the CWA OSH NIEHS Grant Trainers Conference Call on Tuesday, December 18, 2013.

Bargaining resumed today with the Union rejecting the Company?s outrageous proposal on Article 21-Absence.

Today, 23 Brooklyn Cablevision workers were illegally fired after attempting to discuss the lack of good-faith bargaining by the company with their management and expressing support for their bargaining committee ? protected activities by federal law. The Communications Workers of America, which the workers voted to join a year ago, condemned the firings as an illegal and outrageous attack on the company?s hard-working employees. Last week, CWA had filed unfair labor practice charges alleging bad-faith bargaining by Cablevision-Optimum.

You?ve probably been hearing a lot about the Consumer Price Index. The terms ?CPI? and ?chained CPI? ricocheted around the fiscal cliff talks last year. And now they?re being debated as a solution to the next round of deficit reduction negotiations that are getting under way. Confused? Never fear, here?s what you need to know.

JANUARY 29, 2013 - Bargaining resumed today with the Company making a presentation on COR Compensation. During this presentation the Company explained their new commission plan for year 2013 in comparison to the plan that was in effect for 2012.