CWA - Avaya Bargaining Report #18

Greetings:

The Unions met with the company this morning for more discussion. The company passed proposals on the Care Centers, Absence, and other minor issues. The Unions agreed to company proposals on Academic Awards, The Avaya Award, Life Insurance, and the Avaya Savings Plan. In addition, the Unions passed numerous data requests to help prepare responses to previous company proposals. We then recessed to go over the company proposals.

We resumed in the afternoon and the company provided responses to some of the data requests that were outstanding. The Unions then passed proposals on Wages, Article 4, Article 6, and Recognition Awards. We also passed counter proposal on the Absences, Employee Resource Center (ERC), ERC Coordinator, and Healthcare Coordinator. After more discussion, the session ended. We are scheduled to resume formal bargaining tomorrow at 9:00am.

Since we will be bargaining all through the day tomorrow, updates will only happen as we have time, but status will be posted on the web prior to the expiration time (11:59pm EDST).

As we indicated yesterday, all Locals should be prepared for whatever might happen tomorrow night.

One more day!!!!

  Mobilize----Mobilize---Mobilize---Mobilize---Mobilize---Mobilize---Mobilize

In Unity,

CWA-Avaya Bargaining Team