News

Welcome to the March 2010 edition of NACTEL News - with news, information, and insights from the National Coalition for Telecommunications and Learning. Read attached

CWA has intervened in the proposed sale of rural properties by Verizon to Frontier to protect the interests of the consuming public and its members. Before we took this action we weighed both the potential benefits and possible liabilities of this purchase should it be approved. After careful evaluation we believe the negatives far outweigh any positives that could result from the sale.

CWA Local 7270 and Frontier Communications in Minnesota reached a tentative agreement just prior to mid-night on June 10th. June 11th our Bargaining Committee met with the Company to review the finalized language included in the master tentative agreement.

Frontier Communications has formally announced, it will seek to require bargaining unit employees to take a total of twelve days off without pay during the remainder of 2009. It has already imposed this on its current non-bargaining employees.

The Union Bargaining Committee reconvened on Tuesday, 03/24/09, to be briefed on everything that had transpired off-table since the second, Tentative Agreement (T A) was reached on Friday, 03/13/09, at 2:55 PM and caucus.