News

Your Legacy T Bargaining Team was back at the table with the Company this morning (after working until 3:00 AM) and a tentative agreement was achieved at about 11:30.

Seth Rosen, a Midwest vice president of the Communications Workers of America labor union, drowned Friday while on vacation in North Carolina with his wife. Read the full Plain Dealer story at www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/07/labor_leader_seth_rosen_dies_i.html.

District 4 and Legacy T both have an agreement ?in concept? with the Company on the 2012 Agreement. Issues have been worked out in subcommittee but still need to be finalized on the record at the Bargaining Table.

There?s a lot to talk about on tonight?s CWA Telephone Town Hall. Don't miss it: sign up for the call today: http://www.cwa-union.org/cwacall.

Today, CWA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) requested the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) regarding ongoing negotiations with Verizon Communications. The two unions represent approximately 45,000 workers at Verizon locations from New England to Virginia.