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June Organizing Gains Top 2,300
Organizing activity brought CWA more than 2,300 new members in June even as hundreds of local organizers and staff prepared for the union’s 64th annual convention.
District 4 has a new local, with the affiliation of the Columbus Municipal Association of Government Employees. Officers and organizers from Locals 4310, 4320 and 4501 worked to bring aboard the 1,300 supervisors and professional employees of the city of Columbus, Ohio. The members voted by a 57 percent margin to affiliate on June 6, facing expiration of their current contract in August.
“Key issues were support for their upcoming contract negotiations and the benefits they will obtain from CWA’s expertise and political clout,” said Seth Rosen, administrative assistant to District 4 Vice President Jeff Rechenbach. CMAGE will become CWA Local 4502.
Just in time to share a President’s Annual Award, the union’s highest honor for organizing which was presented at the convention to District 3 for organizing nearly 10,000 Cingular Wireless workers in the South, on June 10 District 3 Vice President Jimmy Smith reported AAA certification for 569 Cingular workers in Alabama.
(Additional President’s Awards went to Districts 1, 2 and 13, shared by numerous locals for VIS organizing, and to Local 13000 for AT&T Broadband organizing. Details will follow in the August CWA News.)
Smith gave special thanks to Sonja Abbott, president of Local 3902 in Birmingham, which organized the greatest concentration of workers, about 250, at the Birmingham customer service center. All Alabama locals participated in the campaign, organizing Cingular retail locations across the state, said District 3 Organizing Coordinator Hugh Wolfe. CWA Representatives Jack Baccari and Bob Kruckles assisted the locals, Wolfe said.
On June 24, Executive Vice President Larry Cohen’s office announced the successful conclusion of the first joint organizing effort for TNG-CWA and IUE-CWA, resulting in the affiliation of the Schneider Office Employees Association in Kitchener, Ontario. Its 168 workers voted by a margin of 73 percent to join TNG Canada-CWA. IUE-CWA Local 80400 President Chris Grogan directed the campaign, with assistance from TNG-Canada Director Arnold Amber and IUE-CWA Representative Don Riger.
Finally, the Minnesota Newspaper Guild/Typographical Union won representation through card check for 80 interpreters at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Linda Foley, CWA vice president for The Newspaper Guild, credited Organizer Abram Isaacs, who worked on the campaign along with local Representative Martin Demgen.
District 4 has a new local, with the affiliation of the Columbus Municipal Association of Government Employees. Officers and organizers from Locals 4310, 4320 and 4501 worked to bring aboard the 1,300 supervisors and professional employees of the city of Columbus, Ohio. The members voted by a 57 percent margin to affiliate on June 6, facing expiration of their current contract in August.
“Key issues were support for their upcoming contract negotiations and the benefits they will obtain from CWA’s expertise and political clout,” said Seth Rosen, administrative assistant to District 4 Vice President Jeff Rechenbach. CMAGE will become CWA Local 4502.
Just in time to share a President’s Annual Award, the union’s highest honor for organizing which was presented at the convention to District 3 for organizing nearly 10,000 Cingular Wireless workers in the South, on June 10 District 3 Vice President Jimmy Smith reported AAA certification for 569 Cingular workers in Alabama.
(Additional President’s Awards went to Districts 1, 2 and 13, shared by numerous locals for VIS organizing, and to Local 13000 for AT&T Broadband organizing. Details will follow in the August CWA News.)
Smith gave special thanks to Sonja Abbott, president of Local 3902 in Birmingham, which organized the greatest concentration of workers, about 250, at the Birmingham customer service center. All Alabama locals participated in the campaign, organizing Cingular retail locations across the state, said District 3 Organizing Coordinator Hugh Wolfe. CWA Representatives Jack Baccari and Bob Kruckles assisted the locals, Wolfe said.
On June 24, Executive Vice President Larry Cohen’s office announced the successful conclusion of the first joint organizing effort for TNG-CWA and IUE-CWA, resulting in the affiliation of the Schneider Office Employees Association in Kitchener, Ontario. Its 168 workers voted by a margin of 73 percent to join TNG Canada-CWA. IUE-CWA Local 80400 President Chris Grogan directed the campaign, with assistance from TNG-Canada Director Arnold Amber and IUE-CWA Representative Don Riger.
Finally, the Minnesota Newspaper Guild/Typographical Union won representation through card check for 80 interpreters at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. Linda Foley, CWA vice president for The Newspaper Guild, credited Organizer Abram Isaacs, who worked on the campaign along with local Representative Martin Demgen.