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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.

The Union spent the day reviewing all relevant data that has been provided by the Company to date and formulating new proposals that will be presented in future meetings. No formal discussions took place today. Included in the report are the results for the two polls taken during the Town Hall call held last night.